I like pop music because it can really affect a large amount of people and if I tell stories and spread messages that I think are really important for people to be aware of, I would want it to be on the biggest platform and I feel like pop is that. I use it as a way to tell stories.
MELANIE MARTINEZThe flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them, away.
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I’m insane, I’m emotional, but I’d rather be that than a robot. So that’s definitely something that I wanted to get out there. Especially with Cry Baby’s story, because the album is about Cry Baby but I realized that me and her went through the same change.
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Had to retrieve the key to my heart, Let these roses represent how it all fell apart.
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I see things that nobody else sees.
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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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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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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 see things that nobody else sees.
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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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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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I was always hard on myself for taking things too personally.
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Just as quick as you receive my magic, I can take it away.
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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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I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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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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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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