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I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.

Melanie Martinez

There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.
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Experience Live Love People True
Cry Baby is a character so I think that the next album is going to be about a specific thing in her life or another place in her world. It’s going to be a bit deeper into a bigger picture.
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Big Character Life Photograph Place Thinking World
Cry Baby is just a character in this world that I’m trying to create, and the music videos are really important to me, and I’ve fought to obviously get all of them approved.
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Character Creation Fight Myself Try World
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
Dollhouse was definitely inspired by the whole Edward Scissorhands vibe where all of the houses are perfect, but inside each home there are very messed up families.
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Family Home Inspirational Mess Perfection Toy
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
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
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 definitely feel like if I put out a song that was like me being super vulnerable, people would look as me as weak. I don’t know if that has to do with me being a girl, or if that really has to do with anything, but I’m sure.
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Appearance Music Myself People Song Vulnerable Weakness Woman
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
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
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
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
Just like a flower, we blossom and transform with the proper sunlight, a balanced amount of water, enough fresh air and when we are firmly planted in the ground.
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Flower Ground Growth Light Plant Sun Transformation Water
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 obviously have a different connection to each song in a different way, and they all mean something different to me.
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Connection Different Myself Song Way

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