I’m not used to writing about happy emotions, I’m just used to pulling from my sad or angry – happy emotions are very hard for me to portray in music.
MELANIE MARTINEZSo like what I want to do is connect all of my albums and make it tell a bigger kind of story. So the first album is very focused on her family life and her love life.
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I’ll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.
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If you can’t handle a heart like mine, don’t waste your time with me.
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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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It’s like visual is super important to me. So if I am writing a song, like, I have to have the title.
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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 always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion – and it definitely hurts me in some situations, and helps in some situations, like obviously writing and stuff is my favourite thing to do because I get to use all of my emotions and express them in that way.
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I’m gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I’m feeling that day.
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I think, being emotional is this thing that people think you’re not strong. They don’t look at you as a strong person, and it’s weird ‘cuz honestly being emotional has nothing to do with your strength.
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When I first started writing the album, “Cry Baby” was a song that I really wanted to write because it represented all of these personal insecurities that I had for a long time.
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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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Doing music is time consuming, will drain you, and stress you out at times. But in the end if you love doing it, and you’re putting out music you’re proud of, it will never feel like work. It’ll just feel like love.
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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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Everyone wants to be good but good is only what we’re taught to perceive.
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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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