If I don’t see a music video to it while writing it, I just scrap it immediately. It’s very visual.
MELANIE MARTINEZThe 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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I’ll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.
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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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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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My style in three words- youthful, sweet, and diverse.
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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.
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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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My love language is chocolate.
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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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Loving yourself + others is a magically addictive sensation.
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Even if the song meant a lot to me, I would still probably perform it live.
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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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Is it easier to pretend we are as perfect as the stars above?
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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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I don’t really think about what people think of my music, and how they listen to it or what my demographic is.
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It is aurora borealis when your eyes are shut. It is beyond what our language can convey or comprehend.
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