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 MartinezI obviously have a different connection to each song in a different way, and they all mean something different to me.
Melanie MartinezSo like what I want to do is connect all of my albums and make it tell a bigger kind of story. So the first album is very focused on her family life and her love life.
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.
Melanie Martinez