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 MartinezI'm glad I got to introduce myself to America by doing a Britney [Spears] song, haha!
Melanie MartinezI'm gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I'm feeling that day.
Melanie MartinezWhen I was younger I used to be really into photography, and I still am, I just don't really get to do it besides taking my own artists photos and stuff like that.
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.
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