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.
MELANIE MARTINEZSo 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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Just because I’m an artist doesn’t mean I should be treated differently.
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And still as an adult like I do as well, you know what I mean like I literally just cried in the first interview that I had today. Like, I’m just a very emotional human.
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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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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’ll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.
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I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion – and it definitely hurts me in some situations, and helps in some situations, like obviously writing and stuff is my favourite thing to do because I get to use all of my emotions and express them in that way.
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Found euphoria in the comfort of my own home.
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I’m insane, I’m emotional, but I’d rather be that than a robot. So that’s definitely something that I wanted to get out there. Especially with Cry Baby’s story, because the album is about Cry Baby but I realized that me and her went through the same change.
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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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I was genuinely happy when I wrote that song [Training Wheels] and very in love. That’s a very rare emotion to evoke out of me.
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I also made a lot of really great friends on that show [the Voice], so that’s one of the most important things that I’ve taken out of that experience.
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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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My style in three words- youthful, sweet, and diverse.
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Just wanna be held once in a Blue Moon.
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The flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them, away.
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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’m obsessed with the venue and the people so it’s going to be really fun.The last couple of tours I didn’t have anything like that because of the budget, so I’m super excited because this is really going to bring the album to life.
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Just as quick as you receive my magic, I can take it away.
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We all have holes, chips and scratches on us but these wear marks represent our journey, our wisdom, our knowledge, our lessons learned, our strength, and our vitality.
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Tangled in transformation.
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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 a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.
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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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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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I’m happy that I get to work with people that I enjoy being around. It’s really cool when people understand and want to help your vision and are like rooting for you. I just, I love them a lot.
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Time traveling through roots to birth healing fruit.
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