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Everyone wants to be good but good is only what we’re taught to perceive.

Melanie Martinez

I’m happy that I get to work with people that I enjoy being around. It’s really cool when people understand and want to help your vision and are like rooting for you. I just, I love them a lot.
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Enjoyment Happiness Help Love People Vision Work
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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Album Connection Family Kind Life Love Myself Story
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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Independent Music Myself Sing Thinking Voice
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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Emotional Honesty Myself People Person Strength Strong Thinking Weird
The title is the first thing that I have. Then when I have that title, I have to make sure that the title is like, so I have to make sure I can tell a whole story from that one title and like make sure that it, from beginning to end it makes sense.
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Beginning End Music Myself Song Story Structure
I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion – and it definitely hurts me in some situations, and helps in some situations, like obviously writing and stuff is my favourite thing to do because I get to use all of my emotions and express them in that way.
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Decision Emotion Expression Hurt Life Myself Thinking Writing
I definitely have worked trying to create music that inspires girls to feel confident and strong, and feel like they can do anything.
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Confidence Creation Inspirational Music Work
I don’t really think about what people think of my music, and how they listen to it or what my demographic is.
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Listening Music Myself People Thinking
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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Kind Music Myself Song Sound Thinking Visual Weird Writing
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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Album Connection Family Kind Life Love Myself Story
I love Nicoletta Ceccoli , and I love Tim Burton movies. So those are like my biggest inspirations I think.
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Idol Inspirational Love Movie Thinking
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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Important Myself Song Visual Writing
I’m gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I’m feeling that day.
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Art Artist Creation Emotion Experience Feeling Hell Myself Writing
Is it easier to pretend we are as perfect as the stars above?
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Easy Perfection Pretend Stars Teaching
Tangled in transformation.
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Improvement One Liner Self Love Transformation
And still as an adult like I do as well, you know what I mean like I literally just cried in the first interview that I had today. Like, I’m just a very emotional human.
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Adult Cry Emotion Human Myself
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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Flower Ground Growth Light Plant Sun Transformation Water
Just as quick as you receive my magic, I can take it away.
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Magic Myself Power Quick Worth
You are the seashell planting your existence on the shore catching the attention of many even if they aren’t picking you up, but just merely walking by.
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Attention Existence Plant Yourself
Even if the song meant a lot to me, I would still probably perform it live.
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Myself Performance Song
I’m very, very in touch with my emotions.
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Connection Emotion Myself One Liner Touch
A lot of people say if you can’t love yourself, then you can’t love others. It’s always different, but I definitely have loved a lot in my life.
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Different Life Love Myself People
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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Angry Emotion Happiness Music Myself Sad Writing
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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Big Character Life Photograph Place Thinking World
My style in three words- youthful, sweet, and diverse.
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Different Myself Sweet Youth
Dollhouse was definitely inspired by the whole Edward Scissorhands vibe where all of the houses are perfect, but inside each home there are very messed up families.
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Family Home Inspirational Mess Perfection Toy
Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist.
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Artist Myself Visual

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