If you can’t handle a heart like mine, don’t waste your time with me.
MELANIE MARTINEZI also made a lot of really great friends on that show [the Voice], so that’s one of the most important things that I’ve taken out of that experience.
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I’m not used to writing about happy emotions, I’m just used to pulling from my sad or angry – happy emotions are very hard for me to portray in music.
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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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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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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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I’ll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.
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Cry Baby is a character so I think that the next album is going to be about a specific thing in her life or another place in her world. It’s going to be a bit deeper into a bigger picture.
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I’ve had so many insecurities, and am still getting over a lot.
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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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My love language is chocolate.
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I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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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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And still as an adult like I do as well, you know what I mean like I literally just cried in the first interview that I had today. Like, I’m just a very emotional human.
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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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I was always hard on myself for taking things too personally.
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Just wanna be held once in a Blue Moon.
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