I love Nicoletta Ceccoli , and I love Tim Burton movies. So those are like my biggest inspirations I think.
MELANIE MARTINEZMy favorite performance would definitely be “Toxic,” which was my blind audition song. It was the start of it all and it was a song I had been covering before the show, so it was very dear to my heart.
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My style in three words- youthful, sweet, and diverse.
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Is it easier to pretend we are as perfect as the stars above?
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I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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It’s just weird because like when I was writing Cry Baby I like the only thing that I was thinking about, when writing it, was the concepts and the visuals, and the way that it sounded kind of happened naturally.
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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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We all have holes, chips and scratches on us but these wear marks represent our journey, our wisdom, our knowledge, our lessons learned, our strength, and our vitality.
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I don’t really think about what people think of my music, and how they listen to it or what my demographic is.
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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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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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I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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A lot of people say if you can’t love yourself, then you can’t love others. It’s always different, but I definitely have loved a lot in my life.
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So 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 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.
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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 see things that nobody else sees.
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