Eventually I realized that Cry Baby was a character that was based off of me, and that we had a lot of similarities.
MELANIE MARTINEZI’ve had so many insecurities, and am still getting over a lot.
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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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I was genuinely happy when I wrote that song [Training Wheels] and very in love. That’s a very rare emotion to evoke out of me.
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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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Everyone wants to be good but good is only what we’re taught to perceive.
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Time traveling through roots to birth healing fruit.
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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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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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I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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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.
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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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I definitely have worked trying to create music that inspires girls to feel confident and strong, and feel like they can do anything.
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Found euphoria in the comfort of my own home.
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I’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.
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Tangled in transformation.
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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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