If I don’t see a music video to it while writing it, I just scrap it immediately. It’s very visual.
MELANIE MARTINEZI go with what I like and I generally just cling to things that are pastel and remind me of being a little kid. It’s just what it is right now, but I go through phases.
More Melanie Martinez Quotes
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Cry Baby is just a character in this world that I’m trying to create, and the music videos are really important to me, and I’ve fought to obviously get all of them approved.
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I obviously have a different connection to each song in a different way, and they all mean something different to me.
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Loving yourself + others is a magically addictive sensation.
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I’m pretty excited for people to listen to the story of each song. It’s definitely like a giant book with different stories in it. They are all very child-like but also a balance between light and dark.
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Tangled in transformation.
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I think the transition between singing covers on a reality show to being able to do my own thing was really exciting. I’m no longer singing covers every second, and people are actually getting to hear my own original music.
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I was very vocal about how I wanted to be portrayed on the show, and how I wanted the stage setup to be.
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I’m probably the most proud of “Mrs. Potato Head,” because I had that idea in my head for so long, and I tried writing that song one time and I just couldn’t tell the story the way I wanted to, and I couldn’t figure it out.
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I’m very, very in touch with my emotions.
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Time traveling through roots to birth healing fruit.
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Just because I’m an artist doesn’t mean I should be treated differently.
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The flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them, away.
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My love language is chocolate.
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I just don’t really get to watch a lot of movies, like recently at least I haven’t been able to but I did watch The Exorcist for the first time ever, recently, and it didn’t scare me like I thought it was gonna scare me.
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When I was younger I used to be really into photography, and I still am, I just don’t really get to do it besides taking my own artists photos and stuff like that.
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There are obviously so many artists that are very inspiring, but I can’t say that they like – that I have someone in mind that is like a creative direction of where I want to go as an artist. I think I’m just doing my own thing.
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I love directing my music videos and writing video treatments, and I think it’s all just because I love the visual aspect of it as well.
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There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.
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Just wanna be held once in a Blue Moon.
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On the show [the Voice] I obviously wasn’t allowed [singing my own original music], because it’s not that type of show. I think it’s really cool that I get to do my own thing now.
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I definitely feel like if I put out a song that was like me being super vulnerable, people would look as me as weak. I don’t know if that has to do with me being a girl, or if that really has to do with anything, but I’m sure.
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Make sure this [music industry] is what you love to do, and you can’t imagine doing anything else.
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I definitely fall in love quickly, and I’m very in love with being in love. But it is hard for me to write about love.
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It is aurora borealis when your eyes are shut. It is beyond what our language can convey or comprehend.
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My style in three words- youthful, sweet, and diverse.
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I was genuinely happy when I wrote that song [Training Wheels] and very in love. That’s a very rare emotion to evoke out of me.
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