Tangled in transformation.
MELANIE MARTINEZIt’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.
More Melanie Martinez Quotes
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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 always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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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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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’ve had so many insecurities, and am still getting over a lot.
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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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Everyone wants to be good but good is only what we’re taught to perceive.
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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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Life boils down to two paths, love and fear. Which will you choose?
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I definitely love horror movies and all that for sure.
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Indulging in the pleasures of creation.
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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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I’m obsessed with the venue and the people so it’s going to be really fun.The last couple of tours I didn’t have anything like that because of the budget, so I’m super excited because this is really going to bring the album to life.
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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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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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