Eventually I realized that Cry Baby was a character that was based off of me, and that we had a lot of similarities.
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.
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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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If I don’t see a music video to it while writing it, I just scrap it immediately. It’s very visual.
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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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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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No human interaction, just killing dead parts of myself to make room for the new.
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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’m gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I’m feeling that day.
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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 always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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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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Tangled in transformation.
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Found euphoria in the comfort of my own home.
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Indulging in the pleasures of creation.
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Just because I’m an artist doesn’t mean I should be treated differently.
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