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.
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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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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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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I’ll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.
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I’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 very, very in touch with my emotions.
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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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Had to retrieve the key to my heart, Let these roses represent how it all fell apart.
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I’ve had so many insecurities, and am still getting over a lot.
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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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Tangled in transformation.
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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.
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Just wanna be held once in a Blue Moon.
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There are obviously so many artists that are very inspiring, but I can’t say that they like – that I have someone in mind that is like a creative direction of where I want to go as an artist. I think I’m just doing my own thing.
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Love starts inside of you.
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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 see things that nobody else sees.
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No human interaction, just killing dead parts of myself to make room for the new.
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Indulging in the pleasures of creation.
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My style in three words- youthful, sweet, and diverse.
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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’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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There is a certain level of patience you have to have with yourself to get to the finish line.
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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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I listen to a lot of music. But I definitely haven’t looked at an artist and like thought I want to have a song like this.
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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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My love language is chocolate.
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