I definitely have worked trying to create music that inspires girls to feel confident and strong, and feel like they can do anything.
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.
More Melanie Martinez Quotes
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Even if the song meant a lot to me, I would still probably perform it live.
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There is a certain level of patience you have to have with yourself to get to the finish line.
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I’m glad I got to introduce myself to America by doing a Britney [Spears] song, haha!
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I have a few songs that I’m figuring out and writing. I’m still figuring out the whole concept and how it’s gonna connect to Cry Baby, but I have some ideas, yes.
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I love Nicoletta Ceccoli , and I love Tim Burton movies. So those are like my biggest inspirations I think.
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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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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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If 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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There are obviously so many artists that are very inspiring, but I can’t say that they like – that I have someone in mind that is like a creative direction of where I want to go as an artist. I think I’m just doing my own thing.
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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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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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My love language is chocolate.
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I see things that nobody else sees.
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Loving yourself + others is a magically addictive sensation.
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I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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