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. Melanie Martinez More Quotes by Melanie Martinez More Quotes From Melanie Martinez Eventually I realized that Cry Baby was a character that was based off of me, and that we had a lot of similarities. Melanie Martinez cry baby character [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. Melanie Martinez like-love stress proud 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. Melanie Martinez phases littles kids 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. Melanie Martinez vision want people 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. Melanie Martinez artist want song I was inspired a little while before The Voice to dye my hair half black half blonde by Cruella De Vil of 101 Dalmatians. One day I was watching it and I told my mom I was going to dye my hair like Cruella's, and she thought I was joking. I came home from the salon, and she didn't talk to me for a few days! Melanie Martinez mom home hair I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session. Melanie Martinez session toys sound I love Nicoletta Ceccoli , and I love Tim Burton movies. So those are like my biggest inspirations I think. Melanie Martinez inspiration thinking If I don't see a music video to it while writing it, I just scrap it immediately. It's very visual. Melanie Martinez visuals video writing "Dollhouse" was really insane. We shot it at this top house studio in Brookyln. It was really cool. I designed a mini dollhouse that we used. I made it all by hand and decorated each room, and we based the actual set off of that. The Dollhouse was just plain wood and I put roofing on it and everything. I got real carpet for it. It was crazy. It was definitely an interesting experience. It was the first music video I've ever made. It was definitely stressful but awesome. Everybody was really amazing on set; we just had a blast doing it. Melanie Martinez crazy real hands [My style in three words] youthful, sweet, and diverse. Melanie Martinez style three sweet I definitely love horror movies and all that for sure. Melanie Martinez horror A lot of people relate my success now with The Voice, and it has nothing to do with that. I've definitely worked my ass off for a year afterwards trying to get that off of my forehead. If anything, it's actually harder to get labels to look at you when you come off a show like that, and it's harder for people to look at you like a real artist. Melanie Martinez artist real years I think honestly when I was younger I use to love going to carnivals in Long Island. I use to love carnival season; I would drive to every town going to carnivals. That was definitely a favorite memory. Melanie Martinez islands memories thinking Cry Baby wasn't necessarily a baby theme but I understand what they're saying. So like, Cry Baby is definitely a remaining character throughout all of my albums. Melanie Martinez albums baby character Make sure this [music industry] is what you love to do, and you can't imagine doing anything else. Melanie Martinez music-industry industry imagine I just think that pop music is very interesting in how it can reach so many people. I like that I can tell stories and I just wanted to be heard more, I guess. That's why it's pop, but in my mind I don't really view my music as pop, I don't really view it as anything. I just look at it as a picture, I like visuals. Melanie Martinez views people thinking 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. Melanie Martinez girl song people 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. Melanie Martinez come-up mean people 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. Melanie Martinez used emotion writing
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