Cry Baby is just a character in this world that I’m trying to create, and the music videos are really important to me, and I’ve fought to obviously get all of them approved.
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.
More Melanie Martinez Quotes
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If you can’t handle a heart like mine, don’t waste your time with me.
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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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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 very, very in touch with my emotions.
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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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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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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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My love language is chocolate.
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The title is the first thing that I have. Then when I have that title, I have to make sure that the title is like, so I have to make sure I can tell a whole story from that one title and like make sure that it, from beginning to end it makes sense.
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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 always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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Just as quick as you receive my magic, I can take it away.
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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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I’m glad I got to introduce myself to America by doing a Britney [Spears] song, haha!
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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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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 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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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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I’ve had so many insecurities, and am still getting over a lot.
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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 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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Life boils down to two paths, love and fear. Which will you choose?
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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 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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When I create it is the only time the past, present and future all meet me at once.
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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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