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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.

Melanie Martinez

Loving yourself + others is a magically addictive sensation.
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Compassionate Love Magic Yourself
When I create it is the only time the past, present and future all meet me at once.
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Creation Future Myself Past Present Time
I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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Myself Session Sound Toy
I’m probably the most proud of “Mrs. Potato Head,” because I had that idea in my head for so long, and I tried writing that song one time and I just couldn’t tell the story the way I wanted to, and I couldn’t figure it out.
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Ideas Myself Proud Song Story Time Writing
My style in three words- youthful, sweet, and diverse.
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Different Myself Sweet Youth
I see things that nobody else sees.
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Myself One Liner See
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 was always hard on myself for taking things too personally.
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Hard Myself
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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Angry Emotion Happiness Music Myself Sad Writing
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
My style in three words- youthful, sweet, and diverse.
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Different Myself Sweet Youth
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
Make sure this [music industry] is what you love to do, and you can’t imagine doing anything else.
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Imagination Love Music Myself
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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Beginning End Music Myself Song Story Structure
Everyone wants to be good but good is only what we’re taught to perceive.
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Deep Goodness Wisdom
I love Nicoletta Ceccoli , and I love Tim Burton movies. So those are like my biggest inspirations I think.
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Idol Inspirational Love Movie Thinking
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
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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Artist Myself Photography Young
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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Fall In Love Hard Love Myself Quick Writing
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
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 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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Children Flow Life Place Right Young
Had to retrieve the key to my heart, Let these roses represent how it all fell apart.
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Heart Key Myself Represent Rose
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
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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Book Children Darkness Different Excitement Light Listening Myself Pretty Song 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
Even if the song meant a lot to me, I would still probably perform it live.
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Myself Performance Song

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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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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