Even if the song meant a lot to me, I would still probably perform it live.
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More Melanie Martinez Quotes
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Life boils down to two paths, love and fear. Which will you choose?
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I’m obsessed with the venue and the people so it’s going to be really fun.The last couple of tours I didn’t have anything like that because of the budget, so I’m super excited because this is really going to bring the album to life.
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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 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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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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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 was always hard on myself for taking things too personally.
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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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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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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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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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The flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them, away.
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I see things that nobody else sees.
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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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Just as quick as you receive my magic, I can take it away.
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You are the seashell planting your existence on the shore catching the attention of many even if they aren’t picking you up, but just merely walking by.
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I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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Is it easier to pretend we are as perfect as the stars above?
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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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There are obviously so many artists that are very inspiring, but I can’t say that they like – that I have someone in mind that is like a creative direction of where I want to go as an artist. I think I’m just doing my own thing.
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No human interaction, just killing dead parts of myself to make room for the new.
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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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Cry Baby wasn’t necessarily a baby theme but I understand what they’re saying. So like, Cry Baby is definitely a remaining character throughout all of my albums.
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Love starts inside of you.
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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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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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