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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.

Melanie Martinez

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 always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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Myself Session Sound Toy
I’ve had a lot of people come up to me after shows and tell me that “Dollhouse” really helped them with whatever they were going through with their families. I thought that was really amazing, that it could mean one thing for me but another thing for someone else.
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Family Help Myself People Thinking
I’ll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.
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Confidence Help People Writing
I’m gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I’m feeling that day.
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Art Artist Creation Emotion Experience Feeling Hell Myself Writing
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 love directing my music videos and writing video treatments, and I think it’s all just because I love the visual aspect of it as well.
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Direction Love Music Myself Visual Writing
I love Nicoletta Ceccoli , and I love Tim Burton movies. So those are like my biggest inspirations I think.
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Idol Inspirational Love Movie Thinking
I don’t really think about what people think of my music, and how they listen to it or what my demographic is.
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Listening Music Myself People Thinking
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 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
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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Artist Listening Music Myself Song
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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Album Artist Battle Connection Hard Money Music Myself Video Work
I think the transition between singing covers on a reality show to being able to do my own thing was really exciting. I’m no longer singing covers every second, and people are actually getting to hear my own original music.
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Excitement Music Myself People Reality Sing Thinking
The title is the first thing that I have. Then when I have that title, I have to make sure that the title is like, so I have to make sure I can tell a whole story from that one title and like make sure that it, from beginning to end it makes sense.
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Beginning End Music Myself Song Story Structure
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

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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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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