I’ll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.
MELANIE MARTINEZI’m probably the most proud of “Mrs. Potato Head,” because I had that idea in my head for so long, and I tried writing that song one time and I just couldn’t tell the story the way I wanted to, and I couldn’t figure it out.
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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 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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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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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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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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Make sure this [music industry] is what you love to do, and you can’t imagine doing anything else.
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I never had a lot of friends growing up so having this insane amount of love and support really means a lot to me.
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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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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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If you can’t handle a heart like mine, don’t waste your time with me.
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The flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them, away.
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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 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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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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