If I don’t see a music video to it while writing it, I just scrap it immediately. It’s very visual.
MELANIE MARTINEZI think the transition between singing covers on a reality show to being able to do my own thing was really exciting. I’m no longer singing covers every second, and people are actually getting to hear my own original music.
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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’ll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.
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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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Cry Baby wasn’t necessarily a baby theme but I understand what they’re saying. So like, Cry Baby is definitely a remaining character throughout all of my albums.
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Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist.
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Tangled in transformation.
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My love language is chocolate.
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The flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them, away.
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I definitely fall in love quickly, and I’m very in love with being in love. But it is hard for me to write about love.
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When I create it is the only time the past, present and future all meet me at once.
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Time traveling through roots to birth healing fruit.
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I’m gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I’m feeling that day.
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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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We all have holes, chips and scratches on us but these wear marks represent our journey, our wisdom, our knowledge, our lessons learned, our strength, and our vitality.
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I have definitely noticed I am very passionate. So if I’m fighting with someone I’ll be SO super loud and aggressive, and make sure that my point is heard.
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