Cry Baby is just a character in this world that I’m trying to create, and the music videos are really important to me, and I’ve fought to obviously get all of them approved.
MELANIE MARTINEZCry Baby is just a character in this world that I’m trying to create, and the music videos are really important to me, and I’ve fought to obviously get all of them approved.
MELANIE MARTINEZJust as quick as you receive my magic, I can take it away.
MELANIE MARTINEZI’ll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.
MELANIE MARTINEZI’m not used to writing about happy emotions, I’m just used to pulling from my sad or angry – happy emotions are very hard for me to portray in music.
MELANIE MARTINEZLife boils down to two paths, love and fear. Which will you choose?
MELANIE MARTINEZCry 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.
MELANIE MARTINEZIt is aurora borealis when your eyes are shut. It is beyond what our language can convey or comprehend.
MELANIE MARTINEZI always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
MELANIE MARTINEZIf I don’t see a music video to it while writing it, I just scrap it immediately. It’s very visual.
MELANIE MARTINEZDoing 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.
MELANIE MARTINEZEven if the song meant a lot to me, I would still probably perform it live.
MELANIE MARTINEZIt’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.
MELANIE MARTINEZEveryone wants to be good but good is only what we’re taught to perceive.
MELANIE MARTINEZWhen 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.
MELANIE MARTINEZI 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 MARTINEZJust because I’m an artist doesn’t mean I should be treated differently.
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