I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
MELANIE MARTINEZI always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
MELANIE MARTINEZSo 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.
MELANIE MARTINEZI love Nicoletta Ceccoli , and I love Tim Burton movies. So those are like my biggest inspirations I think.
MELANIE MARTINEZI definitely feel like if I put out a song that was like me being super vulnerable, people would look as me as weak. I don’t know if that has to do with me being a girl, or if that really has to do with anything, but I’m sure.
MELANIE MARTINEZI’ll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.
MELANIE MARTINEZCry 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.
MELANIE MARTINEZMy love language is chocolate.
MELANIE MARTINEZI 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.
MELANIE MARTINEZI’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.
MELANIE MARTINEZI’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.
MELANIE MARTINEZI’m gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I’m feeling that day.
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.
MELANIE MARTINEZTangled in transformation.
MELANIE MARTINEZI was very vocal about how I wanted to be portrayed on the show, and how I wanted the stage setup to be.
MELANIE MARTINEZWhen 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.
MELANIE MARTINEZIf I don’t see a music video to it while writing it, I just scrap it immediately. It’s very visual.
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