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The flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them, away.

Melanie Martinez

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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Artist Myself Photography Young
I’ve had so many insecurities, and am still getting over a lot.
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Growth Insecurity Myself
The flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them, away.
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Break Up Flower Loss Myself Rose
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 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
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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Feeling Love Music Proud Time Work Yourself
I’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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Book Children Darkness Different Excitement Light Listening Myself Pretty Song Story
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
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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Children Flow Life Place Right Young
No human interaction, just killing dead parts of myself to make room for the new.
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Death Human Kill Myself Room
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
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
My style in three words- youthful, sweet, and diverse.
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Different Myself Sweet Youth
When I create it is the only time the past, present and future all meet me at once.
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Creation Future Myself Past Present Time
Just because I’m an artist doesn’t mean I should be treated differently.
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Artist Different Treat
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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Artist Creation Direction Inspirational Mindset Myself
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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Feeling Love Music Proud Time Work Yourself
I love directing my music videos and writing video treatments, and I think it’s all just because I love the visual aspect of it as well.
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Direction Love Music Myself Visual Writing
I just don’t really get to watch a lot of movies, like recently at least I haven’t been able to but I did watch The Exorcist for the first time ever, recently, and it didn’t scare me like I thought it was gonna scare me.
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Movie Myself Scare Time
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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Journey Knowledge Learning Lesson Ourselves Represent Strength Wisdom
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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Artist Myself Photography Young
Eventually I realized that Cry Baby was a character that was based off of me, and that we had a lot of similarities.
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Character Fiction Myself
I 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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Excitement Music Myself People Reality Sing Thinking
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
Life boils down to two paths, love and fear. Which will you choose?
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Choice Fear Life Love Path Yourself
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
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

The flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them, away.

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