Eventually I realized that Cry Baby was a character that was based off of me, and that we had a lot of similarities.
MELANIE MARTINEZEven if the song meant a lot to me, I would still probably perform it live.
More Melanie Martinez Quotes
-
-
Loving yourself + others is a magically addictive sensation.
MELANIE MARTINEZ -
There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.
MELANIE MARTINEZ -
The flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them, away.
MELANIE MARTINEZ -
Is it easier to pretend we are as perfect as the stars above?
MELANIE MARTINEZ -
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.
MELANIE MARTINEZ -
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.
MELANIE MARTINEZ -
My style in three words- youthful, sweet, and diverse.
MELANIE MARTINEZ -
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.
MELANIE MARTINEZ -
Everyone got to choose what they wanted to wear on stage, and by the third time going into wardrobe the stylists already knew what I’d love and what I would never throw on my body in a million years. They were fantastic, and it was so lovely working with them.
MELANIE MARTINEZ -
Everyone wants to be good but good is only what we’re taught to perceive.
MELANIE MARTINEZ -
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.
MELANIE MARTINEZ -
If I don’t see a music video to it while writing it, I just scrap it immediately. It’s very visual.
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 -
I’ll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.
MELANIE MARTINEZ -
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.
MELANIE MARTINEZ






