Make sure this [music industry] is what you love to do, and you can’t imagine doing anything else.
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’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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I’ll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.
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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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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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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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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 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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I’m gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I’m feeling that day.
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Just wanna be held once in a Blue Moon.
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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’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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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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My love language is chocolate.
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Is it easier to pretend we are as perfect as the stars above?
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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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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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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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No human interaction, just killing dead parts of myself to make room for the new.
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Found euphoria in the comfort of my own home.
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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 love Nicoletta Ceccoli , and I love Tim Burton movies. So those are like my biggest inspirations I think.
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Had to retrieve the key to my heart, Let these roses represent how it all fell apart.
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Everyone wants to be good but good is only what we’re taught to perceive.
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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 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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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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