It’s very hard to be an artist, on my first album, and I’m like asking for money for a music video for every song – it’s so hard to do. You have to pick your battles for sure, but I definitely want – and I’ve always worked to make it all connect – for all of it to feel cohesive.
MELANIE MARTINEZEventually 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 always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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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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I love Nicoletta Ceccoli , and I love Tim Burton movies. So those are like my biggest inspirations I think.
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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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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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My style in three words- youthful, sweet, and diverse.
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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.
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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 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 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.
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My style in three words- youthful, sweet, and diverse.
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Just wanna be held once in a Blue Moon.
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I definitely fall in love quickly, and I’m very in love with being in love. But it is hard for me to write about love.
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I have a few songs that I’m figuring out and writing. I’m still figuring out the whole concept and how it’s gonna connect to Cry Baby, but I have some ideas, yes.
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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 definitely love horror movies and all that for sure.
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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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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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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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It is aurora borealis when your eyes are shut. It is beyond what our language can convey or comprehend.
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When I was younger I used to be really into photography, and I still am, I just don’t really get to do it besides taking my own artists photos and stuff like that.
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Loving yourself + others is a magically addictive sensation.
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I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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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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When I was younger I used to be really into photography, and I still am, I just don’t really get to do it besides taking my own artists photos and stuff like that.
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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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