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I’ll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.

Melanie Martinez

Just wanna be held once in a Blue Moon.
MELANIE MARTINEZ

Body Company Love Relationship Touch
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
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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Angry Emotion Happiness Music Myself Sad Writing
Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist.
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Artist Myself Visual
It’s just interesting how people relate my success when I would like to think that I worked my ass off for a reason and that it’s about the music and not because I was on a TV show.
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Music Myself People Reason Success Thinking Work
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
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 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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Friendship Growth Love Myself Sanity Support
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
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
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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Indulging in the pleasures of creation.
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Art Artist Creation One Liner
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
You are the seashell planting your existence on the shore catching the attention of many even if they aren’t picking you up, but just merely walking by.
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Attention Existence Plant Yourself
I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion – and it definitely hurts me in some situations, and helps in some situations, like obviously writing and stuff is my favourite thing to do because I get to use all of my emotions and express them in that way.
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I was always hard on myself for taking things too personally.
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Hard Myself

I’ll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.

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