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

Melanie Martinez

I think, being emotional is this thing that people think you’re not strong. They don’t look at you as a strong person, and it’s weird ‘cuz honestly being emotional has nothing to do with your strength.
MELANIE MARTINEZ

Emotional Honesty Myself People Person Strength Strong Thinking Weird
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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Children Flow Life Place Right Young
I’m pretty excited for people to listen to the story of each song. It’s definitely like a giant book with different stories in it. They are all very child-like but also a balance between light and dark.
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Book Children Darkness Different Excitement Light Listening Myself Pretty Song Story
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 listen to a lot of music. But I definitely haven’t looked at an artist and like thought I want to have a song like this.
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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
It’s like visual is super important to me. So if I am writing a song, like, I have to have the title.
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Important Myself Song Visual Writing
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
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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Journey Knowledge Learning Lesson Ourselves Represent Strength Wisdom
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.
MELANIE MARTINEZ

Children Flow Life Place Right Young
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
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
Even if the song meant a lot to me, I would still probably perform it live.
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Myself Performance Song
There is a certain level of patience you have to have with yourself to get to the finish line.
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Inspirational Patience Success Wait
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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Change Emotional Herself Myself Sanity

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

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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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