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Melanie Martinez

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Melanie Martinez’s words paint vivid, sometimes dark, portraits of self. Across 147 lines you’ll feel her distinctive blend of pop culture and personal introspection.

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[Wikipedia] Melanie Adele Martinez is an American singer-songwriter. Born in Astoria, Queens, and raised in Baldwin, New York, Martinez rose to fame in 2012 after appearing on season 3 of the American television talent show The Voice. Following the show, she was signed to Atlantic Records and released her debut

Quotes by Melanie Martinez

Remember that I am a human.

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Am

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I really like milk. I'm a dairy queen.

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Dairy

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I'm very, very in touch with my emotions.

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Emotion

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I like scaring myself.

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Fear

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Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist.

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Art

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I see things that nobody else sees

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Sees

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I've always been super into photography and the visuals that support my music.

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Always

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I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.

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Session

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I was always hard on myself for taking things too personally.

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Hard

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I'm really stubborn, and I'm okay with that.

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Okay

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I want to encourage people to be themselves and express themselves however they want.

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Encourage

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I want to put out as many albums as I can before I die.

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Albums

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I wrote about scenarios that I was going through and then disguised them.

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About

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The real me is this deep, kind of somber person. I can't really help that.

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Deep

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I have definitely noticed I am very passionate. So if I'm fighting with someone I'll be SO super loud and aggressive, and…

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Aggressive

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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…

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Baby

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I really loved taking photos when I was younger. I think my love for photography sparked my love for creating the visuals…

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I think

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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.…

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Album

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Working on this album has been very emotional and super personal, and creating this character 'Cry Baby' helped me deal with my…

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Baby

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There's a heavy hip-hop influence in my music, some trap influence, but it's always lyrical.

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Always

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I feel it's my job as the artist who is making the music to pair it with visuals that I see in…

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Art

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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…

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Setups

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I had a lot of Barbies growing up, and a lot of porcelain dolls, but I was scared of them. I was…

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Dolls

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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…

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Being a girl

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I'm pretty excited for people to listen to the story of each song. It's definitely like a giant book with different stories…

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Balance

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The behind-the-scenes kind of process at TV, especially live television - that was super scary, but I think it's made me more…

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I think

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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…

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Album

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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…

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Albums

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My two favorite parts of what I do are definitely writing the music and then writing and directing the videos to support…

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Makeup

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I was inspired a little while before The Voice to dye my hair half black half blonde by Cruella De Vil of…

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Black

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Cry Baby is about Cry Baby and the next album [which I think I have a title for but I don't wanna…

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Albums

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Probably "Mrs. Potato Head" or "Training Wheels". "Mrs. Potato Head" because it was the hardest song to write and it took me…

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Albums

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"Dollhouse" was really insane. We shot it at this top house studio in Brookyln. It was really cool. I designed a mini…

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Blast

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The whole entire album is about Cry Baby, you know, being super insecure and kind of like going through her emotions until…

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Albums

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[My style in three words] youthful, sweet, and diverse.

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Diverse

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I definitely love horror movies and all that for sure.

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Definitely

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I love Sia and how she hides her face. If I could pull off doing that, I totally would.

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Could

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I think that 'Cry Baby' came from a nickname I was called as a kid.

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Baby

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I always have felt that I was six years old.

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Always

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I went to the carnival a lot. The carousel was my favorite ride as a kid.

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Carnival

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Melanie Martinez by topic

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