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Melanie Martinez

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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Album Connection Family Kind Life Love Myself Story
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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Excitement Music Myself People Reality Sing Thinking
It’s very hard to be an artist, on my first album, and I’m like asking for money for a music video for every song – it’s so hard to do. You have to pick your battles for sure, but I definitely want – and I’ve always worked to make it all connect – for all of it to feel cohesive.
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Album Artist Battle Connection Hard Money Music Myself Video Work
The title is the first thing that I have. Then when I have that title, I have to make sure that the title is like, so I have to make sure I can tell a whole story from that one title and like make sure that it, from beginning to end it makes sense.
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Beginning End Music Myself Song Story Structure
Eventually I realized that Cry Baby was a character that was based off of me, and that we had a lot of similarities.
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Character Fiction Myself
Dollhouse was definitely inspired by the whole Edward Scissorhands vibe where all of the houses are perfect, but inside each home there are very messed up families.
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Family Home Inspirational Mess Perfection Toy
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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Feeling Love Music Proud Time Work Yourself
I was always hard on myself for taking things too personally.
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Hard Myself
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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Appearance Myself Performance Rule Voice
Just because I’m an artist doesn’t mean I should be treated differently.
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Artist Different Treat
Just like a flower, we blossom and transform with the proper sunlight, a balanced amount of water, enough fresh air and when we are firmly planted in the ground.
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Flower Ground Growth Light Plant Sun Transformation Water
I’ve had a lot of people come up to me after shows and tell me that “Dollhouse” really helped them with whatever they were going through with their families. I thought that was really amazing, that it could mean one thing for me but another thing for someone else.
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Family Help Myself People Thinking
The flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them, away.
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Break Up Flower Loss Myself Rose
I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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Myself Session Sound Toy
Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist.
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Artist Myself Visual
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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Artist Myself Photography Young

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