Just wanna be held once in a Blue Moon.
MELANIE MARTINEZA 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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Doing music is time consuming, will drain you, and stress you out at times. But in the end if you love doing it, and you’re putting out music you’re proud of, it will never feel like work. It’ll just feel like love.
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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 never had a lot of friends growing up so having this insane amount of love and support really means a lot to me.
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I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion – and it definitely hurts me in some situations, and helps in some situations, like obviously writing and stuff is my favourite thing to do because I get to use all of my emotions and express them in that way.
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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’m glad I got to introduce myself to America by doing a Britney [Spears] song, haha!
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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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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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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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I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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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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I’m very, very in touch with my emotions.
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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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The flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them, away.
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Found euphoria in the comfort of my own home.
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There is a certain level of patience you have to have with yourself to get to the finish line.
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I think the transition between singing covers on a reality show to being able to do my own thing was really exciting. I’m no longer singing covers every second, and people are actually getting to hear my own original music.
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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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Time traveling through roots to birth healing fruit.
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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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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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I also made a lot of really great friends on that show [the Voice], so that’s one of the most important things that I’ve taken out of that experience.
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I love directing my music videos and writing video treatments, and I think it’s all just because I love the visual aspect of it as well.
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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.
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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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I was very vocal about how I wanted to be portrayed on the show, and how I wanted the stage setup to be.
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