Make sure this [music industry] is what you love to do, and you can’t imagine doing anything else.
MELANIE MARTINEZI’m pretty excited for people to listen to the story of each song. It’s definitely like a giant book with different stories in it. They are all very child-like but also a balance between light and dark.
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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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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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My style in three words- youthful, sweet, and diverse.
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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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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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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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I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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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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When I first started writing the album, “Cry Baby” was a song that I really wanted to write because it represented all of these personal insecurities that I had for a long time.
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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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Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist.
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The flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them, away.
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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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Even if the song meant a lot to me, I would still probably perform it live.
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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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