Life boils down to two paths, love and fear. Which will you choose?
MELANIE MARTINEZI 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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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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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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I don’t really think about what people think of my music, and how they listen to it or what my demographic is.
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Everyone wants to be good but good is only what we’re taught to perceive.
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I definitely feel like if I put out a song that was like me being super vulnerable, people would look as me as weak. I don’t know if that has to do with me being a girl, or if that really has to do with anything, but I’m sure.
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Is it easier to pretend we are as perfect as the stars above?
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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’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 was always hard on myself for taking things too personally.
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Tangled in transformation.
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Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist.
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My favorite performance would definitely be “Toxic,” which was my blind audition song. It was the start of it all and it was a song I had been covering before the show, so it was very dear to my heart.
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We all have holes, chips and scratches on us but these wear marks represent our journey, our wisdom, our knowledge, our lessons learned, our strength, and our vitality.
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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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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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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 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 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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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 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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I’ve had so many insecurities, and am still getting over a lot.
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Time traveling through roots to birth healing fruit.
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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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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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