“Cry Baby is just a character in this world that I'm trying to create, and the music videos are really important to me, and I've fought to obviously get all of them approved.” WorldTryingImportantCharacterCryThis WorldBabyVideoApprovedCry Baby Author:Melanie Martinez
“I think that the next album is specifically for sure from Cry Baby's perspective, but it's not necessarily about her family-life or her love-life, or anything like that, it's more about this place in this town. The place has different characters in there, so in every song there's gonna be different characters that appear.” ThinkingDifferentCharacterSongNextCryPerspectiveBabyTownsAlbumsLove LifeFamily LifeDifferent CharactersCry Baby Author: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.” CharacterCryBabyI RealizedSimilarityCry Baby Author:Melanie Martinez
“When I first started writing the album, "Cry Baby" was a song that I really wanted to write because it represented all of these personal insecurities that I had for a long time.” WritingFirstsLongWantedSongCryBabyLong TimeAlbumsInsecurityCry Baby Author:Melanie Martinez
“I'm insane, I'm emotional, but I'd rather be that than a robot. So that's definitely something that I wanted to get out there. Especially with Cry Baby's story, because the album is about Cry Baby but I realized that me and her went through the same change.” StoriesWantedCryEmotionalBabyAlbumsI RealizedInsaneRobotsCry Baby Author:Melanie Martinez
“It's just weird because like when I was writing Cry Baby I like...the only thing that I was thinking about, when writing it, was the concepts and the visuals, and the way that it sounded kind of happened naturally.” ThinkingWayWritingKindHappenedCryBabyConceptsVisualsCry Baby Author:Melanie Martinez
“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.” CharacterCryBabyAlbumsThemeCry Baby Author:Melanie Martinez
“The Cry Baby character is so, like, based off of myself that it just really is just from personal experience. And when I was younger I was called a cry baby and made fun of for being super emotional and taking things way to personal.” WayMadeCharacterFunCryEmotionalBabyPersonal ExperiencesCry Baby Author:Melanie Martinez
“The whole entire album is about Cry Baby, you know, being super insecure and kind of like going through her emotions until she finally realizes that she's comfortable with how crazy and insane she is and I think that I've made the exact same kind of progression , and the growth...and I don't know, like I feel like I've definitely grown into who I am and, like, I think Cry Baby is just me.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsKindMadeWholeGrowthRealizingEmotionCrazyCryBabyComfortableAlbumsWho I AmInsaneInsecureProgressionCry Baby Author:Melanie Martinez
“I have a few songs that I'm figuring out and writing. I'm still figuring out the whole concept and how it's gonna connect to Cry Baby, but I have some ideas, yes.” WritingStillsIdeasWholeSongCryBabyConceptsCry Baby Author:Melanie Martinez
“Cry Baby is a character so I think that the next album is going to be about a specific thing in her life or another place in her world. It's going to be a bit deeper into a bigger picture.” ThinkingWorldCharacterNextBitsCryBabyBiggerAlbumsDeeperBigger PictureCry Baby Author:Melanie Martinez
“Cry Baby is about Cry Baby and the next album [which I think I have a title for but I don't wanna say anything yet because I don't know and it's too early] is a place in the weird town that I'm trying to create and its Cry Baby's perspective throughout this album. You're not learning about her, you're learning about the place that she's in and her perspective. Down the line for sure I will think of other characters in this world.” ThinkingKnowsWorldTryingCharacterNextLinesCryThis WorldPerspectiveBabyTownsAlbumsTitlesSay AnythingCry Baby Author:Melanie Martinez