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.
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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I also made a lot of really great friends on that show [the Voice], so that’s one of the most important things that I’ve taken out of that experience.
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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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If you can’t handle a heart like mine, don’t waste your time with me.
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I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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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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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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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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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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Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist.
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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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The flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them, away.
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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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I love Nicoletta Ceccoli , and I love Tim Burton movies. So those are like my biggest inspirations I think.
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I was always hard on myself for taking things too personally.
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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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