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I’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 Martinez

I think honestly when I was younger I use to love going to carnivals in Long Island. I use to love carnival season; I would drive to every town going to carnivals. That was definitely a favorite memory.
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Celebration Honesty Love Memories Thinking Travel 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
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
Make sure this [music industry] is what you love to do, and you can’t imagine doing anything else.
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Imagination Love Music Myself
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
No human interaction, just killing dead parts of myself to make room for the new.
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Death Human Kill Myself Room
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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Feeling Love Music Proud Time Work Yourself
Tangled in transformation.
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Improvement One Liner Self Love Transformation
Cry Baby wasn’t necessarily a baby theme but I understand what they’re saying. So like, Cry Baby is definitely a remaining character throughout all of my albums.
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Album Character Myself Necessary Understand
Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist.
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Artist Myself Visual
I never had a lot of friends growing up so having this insane amount of love and support really means a lot to me.
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Friendship Growth Love Myself Sanity Support
I definitely love horror movies and all that for sure.
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Fiction Love Movie Myself Scare
I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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Myself Session Sound Toy
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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Connection Ideas Music Myself Song Writing
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
Life boils down to two paths, love and fear. Which will you choose?
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Choice Fear Life Love Path Yourself

I’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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I’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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