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[Music] the movie is brilliant and you know huge undertaking perfectly executed by the artist written and directed by Melanie Martinez is called K through 12 it's a perfect partner to the album of the same name which is streaming now on Apple
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music K through 12 is like your first major journey that you become aware of yep ultimately when you start making decisions for yourself it's it K yep and wheels on the bus is kind of where that all begins wheels on the bus feels definitely the most kindergarten to me
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yeah and it is the start you know going on the bus and having that whole experience meeting people on the bus either getting bullied on the bus or you were bullied you a victim of that yeah definitely big time oh I was believed for like my teeth for how I dressed you
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know if I wear makeup they would be like oh you look like a clown you know like just little things that like that and I was very sensitive to so I think that made being extra sensitive just like I there's no point in anyone's life where
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being called a clown is fun did you always have a strong personality um no I was very introverted I was kind of eccentric but also very sensitive so like I would get my feelings hurt easily when I was a kid but I was also very I guess I was I was always like outdoors
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and always like climbing things jumping off things I was just all over the place so nature was is a language that you understood definitely yeah that's like my you know a safe place being out in the backyard and just like hearing the birds chirping
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and just like looking at like the trees blowing in the wind like that's my favorite it makes perfect sense because if we're talking about K through 12 right here the movie which of course accompanies the album and they're not separate they're together you know
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nature is plays a big part in this film you filmed it in Budapest yeah how was that it was very intense the locations would have been so expensive to try to build out all of those like rokoko like baroque style sets so it was just perfect to like go
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and actually like location scout see all these beautiful palaces that are just mind-blowing how long do you spend out there before I even started filming oh it was a month of pre-production in LA and a month of pre-production in Budapest and then we shot it was a
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31-day shoot in Budapest yeah so tell me about the making of this rig hole because I was just saying one of the things I love about it is just like how complicated and yet simplistic the production is there's so much going on yet you retaining
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Nursery Rhyme type fields to the song yeah well we started me and Mikey Mikey Keenan produced it Michael Keenan and we started in 2015 after I put out cry baby and we would just you know at first when I decided to make the whole overall
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theme school I had to just write down a bunch of titles cuz that's the way that my brain works like I like thinking about the theme first and then I'd go in the studio with Mikey and we would go through all these sounds and really just any sound that would come up that would
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remind me of a title that I had written down I would and I was in that moment I'd be like okay I'm gonna go with this title because we just found this sound and it makes sense and it feels like it's time to work on this so you know like class fight for examples like
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though probably the one song on the album that this happened with because I never really go back I always like just I write it then I record it then and I never touch it so with classify it was the only song that I actually went back
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and I redid the whole chorus because I just didn't think it was strong enough lyrically and also melodically and so I was just like I'm gonna redo this and I was so happy that I did that because it's like one of my favorite like songs to dance to it's great what was the
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hottest song for you to wrangle to give it to Shane I think the hardest song I would say class right because I had to go back to it the other ones came pretty intuitively like the easiest song was like nurses office just happened and that was it you