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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

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
It’s just interesting how people relate my success when I would like to think that I worked my ass off for a reason and that it’s about the music and not because I was on a TV show.
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Music Myself People Reason Success Thinking Work
My style in three words- youthful, sweet, and diverse.
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Different Myself Sweet Youth
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.
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Change Emotional Herself Myself Sanity
It’s like visual is super important to me. So if I am writing a song, like, I have to have the title.
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Important Myself Song Visual Writing
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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Confidence Creation Inspirational Music Work
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’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
Everyone got to choose what they wanted to wear on stage, and by the third time going into wardrobe the stylists already knew what I’d love and what I would never throw on my body in a million years. They were fantastic, and it was so lovely working with them.
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Appearance Body Choice Design Fashion Love Myself Work
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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Creation Music Myself See Visual Writing
I see things that nobody else sees.
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Myself One Liner See
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
I think honestly when I was younger I use to love going to carnivals in Long Island. I use to love carnival season; I would drive to every town going to carnivals. That was definitely a favorite memory.
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Celebration Honesty Love Memories Thinking Travel Young
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 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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Artist Listening Music Myself Song
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

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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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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