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.
MELANIE MARTINEZI 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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I definitely have worked trying to create music that inspires girls to feel confident and strong, and feel like they can do anything.
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Tangled in transformation.
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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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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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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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It is aurora borealis when your eyes are shut. It is beyond what our language can convey or comprehend.
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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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I’m insane, I’m emotional, but I’d rather be that than a robot. So that’s definitely something that I wanted to get out there. Especially with Cry Baby’s story, because the album is about Cry Baby but I realized that me and her went through the same change.
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I never had a lot of friends growing up so having this insane amount of love and support really means a lot to me.
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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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Cry Baby wasn’t necessarily a baby theme but I understand what they’re saying. So like, Cry Baby is definitely a remaining character throughout all of my albums.
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Everyone wants to be good but good is only what we’re taught to perceive.
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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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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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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’ll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.
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Loving yourself + others is a magically addictive sensation.
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When I create it is the only time the past, present and future all meet me at once.
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I like pop music because it can really affect a large amount of people and if I tell stories and spread messages that I think are really important for people to be aware of, I would want it to be on the biggest platform and I feel like pop is that. I use it as a way to tell stories.
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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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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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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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Love starts inside of you.
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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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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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