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.
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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My style in three words- youthful, sweet, and diverse.
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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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No human interaction, just killing dead parts of myself to make room for the new.
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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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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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The flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them, 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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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 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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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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Even if the song meant a lot to me, I would still probably perform it live.
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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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Time traveling through roots to birth healing fruit.
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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’m gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I’m feeling that day.
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