I’m gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I’m feeling that day.
MELANIE MARTINEZIt’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.
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I never had a lot of friends growing up so having this insane amount of love and support really means a lot to me.
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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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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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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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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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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 create it is the only time the past, present and future all meet me at once.
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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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The flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them, away.
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I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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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.
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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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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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Life boils down to two paths, love and fear. Which will you choose?
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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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Even if the song meant a lot to me, I would still probably perform it live.
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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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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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It’s just weird because like when I was writing Cry Baby I like the only thing that I was thinking about, when writing it, was the concepts and the visuals, and the way that it sounded kind of happened naturally.
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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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I’ll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.
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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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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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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’m glad I got to introduce myself to America by doing a Britney [Spears] song, haha!
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