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.
MELANIE MARTINEZDollhouse 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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Cry 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 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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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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I’m gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I’m feeling that day.
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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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It’s just interesting how people relate my success when I would like to think that I worked my ass off for a reason and that it’s about the music and not because I was on a TV show.
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Is it easier to pretend we are as perfect as the stars above?
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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’ve had a lot of people come up to me after shows and tell me that “Dollhouse” really helped them with whatever they were going through with their families. I thought that was really amazing, that it could mean one thing for me but another thing for someone else.
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I was always hard on myself for taking things too personally.
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I’ve had so many insecurities, and am still getting over a lot.
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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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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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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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Time traveling through roots to birth healing fruit.
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