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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.

Melanie Martinez

I definitely have worked trying to create music that inspires girls to feel confident and strong, and feel like they can do anything.
MELANIE MARTINEZ

Confidence Creation Inspirational Music Work
On the show [the Voice] I obviously wasn’t allowed [singing my own original music], because it’s not that type of show. I think it’s really cool that I get to do my own thing now.
MELANIE MARTINEZ

Independent Music Myself Sing Thinking Voice
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.
MELANIE MARTINEZ

Journey Knowledge Learning Lesson Ourselves Represent Strength Wisdom
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.
MELANIE MARTINEZ

Album Connection Family Kind Life Love Myself Story
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
When I first started writing the album, “Cry Baby” was a song that I really wanted to write because it represented all of these personal insecurities that I had for a long time.
MELANIE MARTINEZ

Album Insecurity Music Myself Represent Start Time Writing
A lot of people say if you can’t love yourself, then you can’t love others. It’s always different, but I definitely have loved a lot in my life.
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Different Life Love Myself People
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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Experience Live Love People True
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.
MELANIE MARTINEZ

Change Emotional Herself Myself Sanity
Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist.
MELANIE MARTINEZ

Artist Myself Visual
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.
MELANIE MARTINEZ

Appearance Music Myself People Song Vulnerable Weakness Woman
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.
MELANIE MARTINEZ

Beginning End Music Myself Song Story Structure
I obviously have a different connection to each song in a different way, and they all mean something different to me.
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Connection Different Myself Song Way
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 MARTINEZ

Important Music Myself People Story Thinking
I think, being emotional is this thing that people think you’re not strong. They don’t look at you as a strong person, and it’s weird ‘cuz honestly being emotional has nothing to do with your strength.
MELANIE MARTINEZ

Emotional Honesty Myself People Person Strength Strong Thinking Weird
There is a certain level of patience you have to have with yourself to get to the finish line.
MELANIE MARTINEZ

Inspirational Patience Success Wait

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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