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.
MELANIE MARTINEZCry Baby is a character so I think that the next album is going to be about a specific thing in her life or another place in her world. It’s going to be a bit deeper into a bigger picture.
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I definitely have worked trying to create music that inspires girls to feel confident and strong, and feel like they can do anything.
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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 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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Just as quick as you receive my magic, I can take it away.
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If I don’t see a music video to it while writing it, I just scrap it immediately. It’s very visual.
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My style in three words- youthful, sweet, and diverse.
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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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I’ll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.
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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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I’ll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.
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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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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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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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Is it easier to pretend we are as perfect as the stars above?
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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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When I first started writing the album, “Cry Baby” was a song that I really wanted to write because it represented all of these personal insecurities that I had for a long time.
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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 genuinely happy when I wrote that song [Training Wheels] and very in love. That’s a very rare emotion to evoke out of me.
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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 listen to a lot of music. But I definitely haven’t looked at an artist and like thought I want to have a song like this.
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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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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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The flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them, away.
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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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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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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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