June 21, 2016 || Buffalo, NY @ Canalside

“…it felt necessary to always have music in my life, whether I was making it or listening to it. But I think the storytelling is really my favorite part of making music, and I think that that’s really why I do it. I just – at the end of my life, I want to look back and I feel like writing these concept albums that will connect and tell this bigger picture story…With Cry Baby representing me, it’s kind of like I’m documenting my life. I think it’s really important as in any case, every artist is documenting their life, every album is a phase in our life, and I think it’s just like a scrapbook, so I think that that’s why I do. I’m just documenting my life and also having fun just adding this fairytale element to it, and telling another story along with my own.”

Melanie Martinez photographed by Shanna Fisher for “Pretty in Pink” photoshoot – 2014