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.
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.
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Loving yourself + others is a magically addictive sensation.
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I was always hard on myself for taking things too personally.
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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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Tangled in transformation.
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My style in three words- youthful, sweet, and diverse.
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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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Make sure this [music industry] is what you love to do, and you can’t imagine doing anything else.
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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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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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It is aurora borealis when your eyes are shut. It is beyond what our language can convey or comprehend.
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Everyone wants to be good but good is only what we’re taught to perceive.
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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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I definitely love horror movies and all that for sure.
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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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Even if the song meant a lot to me, I would still probably perform it live.
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