If I don’t see a music video to it while writing it, I just scrap it immediately. It’s very visual.
MELANIE MARTINEZMy 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.
More Melanie Martinez Quotes
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I see things that nobody else sees.
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It is aurora borealis when your eyes are shut. It is beyond what our language can convey or comprehend.
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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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My style in three words- youthful, sweet, and diverse.
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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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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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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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Found euphoria in the comfort of my own home.
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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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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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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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I think the transition between singing covers on a reality show to being able to do my own thing was really exciting. I’m no longer singing covers every second, and people are actually getting to hear my own original music.
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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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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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Even if the song meant a lot to me, I would still probably perform it live.
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When I create it is the only time the past, present and future all meet me at once.
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I’m very, very in touch with my emotions.
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I’m gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I’m feeling that day.
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I definitely have worked trying to create music that inspires girls to feel confident and strong, and feel like they can do anything.
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”God” is the Glue between us all.
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I definitely fall in love quickly, and I’m very in love with being in love. But it is hard for me to write about love.
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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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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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Just as quick as you receive my magic, I can take it away.
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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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