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I’ve had so many insecurities, and am still getting over a lot.

Melanie Martinez

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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Kind Music Myself Song Sound Thinking Visual Weird Writing
Had to retrieve the key to my heart, Let these roses represent how it all fell apart.
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Heart Key Myself Represent Rose
Make sure this [music industry] is what you love to do, and you can’t imagine doing anything else.
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Imagination Love Music Myself
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
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
My 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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Audition Heart Myself Performance Song Start
I’m happy that I get to work with people that I enjoy being around. It’s really cool when people understand and want to help your vision and are like rooting for you. I just, I love them a lot.
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Enjoyment Happiness Help Love People Vision Work
I’ve had so many insecurities, and am still getting over a lot.
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Growth Insecurity Myself
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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Emotion Happiness Love Myself Song Writing
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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Artist Creation Direction Inspirational Mindset Myself
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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Confidence Creation Inspirational Music Work
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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Ideas Myself Proud Song Story Time Writing
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
Everyone wants to be good but good is only what we’re taught to perceive.
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Deep Goodness Wisdom
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
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

I’ve had so many insecurities, and am still getting over a lot.

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