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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 obviously have a different connection to each song in a different way, and they all mean something different to me.
MELANIE MARTINEZ

Connection Different Myself Song Way
A lot of people say if you can’t love yourself, then you can’t love others. It’s always different, but I definitely have loved a lot in my life.
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Different Life Love Myself People
I 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.
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Important Music Myself People Story Thinking
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
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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Album Insecurity Music Myself Represent Start Time Writing
When I was younger I used to be really into photography, and I still am, I just don’t really get to do it besides taking my own artists photos and stuff like that.
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Artist Myself Photography Young
There is a certain level of patience you have to have with yourself to get to the finish line.
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Inspirational Patience Success Wait
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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Audition Heart Myself Performance Song Start
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’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
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
I think, being emotional is this thing that people think you’re not strong. They don’t look at you as a strong person, and it’s weird ‘cuz honestly being emotional has nothing to do with your strength.
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Emotional Honesty Myself People Person Strength Strong Thinking Weird
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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Attention Existence Plant Yourself
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
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
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.
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Kind Music Myself Song Sound Thinking Visual Weird Writing

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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