I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
MELANIE MARTINEZI think honestly when I was younger I use to love going to carnivals in Long Island. I use to love carnival season; I would drive to every town going to carnivals. That was definitely a favorite memory.
More Melanie Martinez Quotes
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On the show [the Voice] I obviously wasn’t allowed [singing my own original music], because it’s not that type of show. I think it’s really cool that I get to do my own thing now.
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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 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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Even if the song meant a lot to me, I would still probably perform it live.
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Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist.
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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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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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Make sure this [music industry] is what you love to do, and you can’t imagine doing anything else.
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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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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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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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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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Tangled in transformation.
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I definitely love horror movies and all that for sure.
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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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