I’m gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I’m feeling that day.
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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Found euphoria in the comfort of my own home.
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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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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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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.
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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 very, very in touch with my emotions.
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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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The flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them, away.
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Time traveling through roots to birth healing fruit.
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Life boils down to two paths, love and fear. Which will you choose?
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I was always hard on myself for taking things too personally.
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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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There is a certain level of patience you have to have with yourself to get to the finish line.
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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.
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I think, being emotional is this thing that people think you’re not strong. They don’t look at you as a strong person, and it’s weird ‘cuz honestly being emotional has nothing to do with your strength.
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