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''Electra Heart'' (2012) is the second studio album by Welsh SingerSongwriter Music/MarinaDiamandis (then known by the StageName of Marina And The Diamonds). It was released on 27 April, 2012, by 679 Artists and Atlantic Records. A highly cinematic ConceptAlbum[[note]]Marina's official Website/YouTube channel released eleven short film clips for ''Electra Heart''[[/note]], it consists of electropop and dance-pop music, a distinct departure from her earlier projects. Lyrically, the album discusses topics of love and identity. Diamandis created the title character "Electra Heart" to represent female archetypes in popular American culture--the {{Housewife}}, the [[LovableAlphaBitch Beauty Queen]], the [[SerialHomewrecker Homewrecker]], and the [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife Idle Teen]].

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''Electra Heart'' (2012) is the second studio album by Welsh SingerSongwriter Music/MarinaDiamandis (then known by the StageName of Marina And The and the Diamonds). It was released on 27 April, April 27, 2012, by 679 Artists and Atlantic Records. Records.

A ConceptAlbum highly cinematic ConceptAlbum[[note]]Marina's in tone and presentation (with Marina's official Website/YouTube channel released releasing eleven short film clips for ''Electra Heart''[[/note]], the album), it consists of electropop and dance-pop music, a distinct departure from her earlier projects. Lyrically, the album discusses topics of love and identity. Diamandis created the title character "Electra Heart" to represent female archetypes in popular American culture--the culture -- the {{Housewife}}, the [[LovableAlphaBitch Beauty Queen]], the [[SerialHomewrecker Homewrecker]], and the [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife Idle Teen]].
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* MeaningfulName: Her name is ''[[OedipusComplex Electra]]'' Heart. A CentralTheme of the album is female core identity and archetypes.

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* MeaningfulName: Her name is ''[[OedipusComplex Electra]]'' ''{{Electra|Complex}}'' Heart. A CentralTheme of the album is female core identity and archetypes.
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* MeaningfulName: Her name is ''[[ElectraComplex Electra]]'' Heart. A CentralTheme of the album is female core identity and archetypes.

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* MeaningfulName: Her name is ''[[ElectraComplex ''[[OedipusComplex Electra]]'' Heart. A CentralTheme of the album is female core identity and archetypes.
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* MeaningfulName: Her name is ''[[OedipusComplex Electra]]'' Heart. A CentralTheme of the album is female core identity and archetypes.

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* MeaningfulName: Her name is ''[[OedipusComplex ''[[ElectraComplex Electra]]'' Heart. A CentralTheme of the album is female core identity and archetypes.
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* IllGirl: There's quite a few references to Electra puking, and the titular track features the line "you could always pray that the sickness, it could go away". There's also the fact that Electra presents herself as being suicidal multiple times throughout the album.
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* MadnessMantra: "Lights, they blind me" has become the defining phrase of the Electra Heart era, the last video of which has Electra repeating the phrase over and over to herself until it's the last thing she says. Taken UpToEleven on the horror scale when you realise she's essentially dying by this point.

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* MadnessMantra: "Lights, they blind me" has become the defining phrase of the Electra Heart era, the last video of which has Electra repeating the phrase over and over to herself until it's the last thing she says. Taken UpToEleven up to eleven on the horror scale when you realise she's essentially dying by this point.

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''Electra Heart'' (2012) is the second studio album by Welsh SingerSongwriter Marina Diamandis (then known by the StageName of Music/MarinaDiamandis). It was released on 27 April, 2012, by 679 Artists and Atlantic Records. A highly cinematic ConceptAlbum[[note]]Marina's official Website/YouTube channel released eleven short film clips for ''Electra Heart''[[/note]], it consists of electropop and dance-pop music, a distinct departure from her earlier projects. Lyrically, the album discusses topics of love and identity. Diamandis created the title character "Electra Heart" to represent female archetypes in popular American culture--the {{Housewife}}, the [[LovableAlphaBitch Beauty Queen]], the [[SerialHomewrecker Homewrecker]], and the [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife Idle Teen]].

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''Electra Heart'' (2012) is the second studio album by Welsh SingerSongwriter Marina Diamandis Music/MarinaDiamandis (then known by the StageName of Music/MarinaDiamandis).Marina And The Diamonds). It was released on 27 April, 2012, by 679 Artists and Atlantic Records. A highly cinematic ConceptAlbum[[note]]Marina's official Website/YouTube channel released eleven short film clips for ''Electra Heart''[[/note]], it consists of electropop and dance-pop music, a distinct departure from her earlier projects. Lyrically, the album discusses topics of love and identity. Diamandis created the title character "Electra Heart" to represent female archetypes in popular American culture--the {{Housewife}}, the [[LovableAlphaBitch Beauty Queen]], the [[SerialHomewrecker Homewrecker]], and the [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife Idle Teen]].
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''Electra Heart'' (2012) is the second studio album by Welsh SingerSongwriter Marina Diamandis (then known by the StageName of Music/MarinaAndTheDiamonds). It was released on 27 April, 2012, by 679 Artists and Atlantic Records. A highly cinematic ConceptAlbum[[note]]Marina's official Website/YouTube channel released eleven short film clips for ''Electra Heart''[[/note]], it consists of electropop and dance-pop music, a distinct departure from her earlier projects. Lyrically, the album discusses topics of love and identity. Diamandis created the title character "Electra Heart" to represent female archetypes in popular American culture--the {{Housewife}}, the [[LovableAlphaBitch Beauty Queen]], the [[SerialHomewrecker Homewrecker]], and the [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife Idle Teen]].

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''Electra Heart'' (2012) is the second studio album by Welsh SingerSongwriter Marina Diamandis (then known by the StageName of Music/MarinaAndTheDiamonds).Music/MarinaDiamandis). It was released on 27 April, 2012, by 679 Artists and Atlantic Records. A highly cinematic ConceptAlbum[[note]]Marina's official Website/YouTube channel released eleven short film clips for ''Electra Heart''[[/note]], it consists of electropop and dance-pop music, a distinct departure from her earlier projects. Lyrically, the album discusses topics of love and identity. Diamandis created the title character "Electra Heart" to represent female archetypes in popular American culture--the {{Housewife}}, the [[LovableAlphaBitch Beauty Queen]], the [[SerialHomewrecker Homewrecker]], and the [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife Idle Teen]].
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* AlterEgoActing: One of the major themes of "Electra Heart" is the Archetypes: [[{{Housewife}} Su-Barbie-A]], [[YourCheatingHeart Homewrecker]], [[ThePrimadonna Primadonna]], and [[BrokenBird Teen Idle]]. Marina assumes these personas throughout the album as she explore the negative aspects of each. The last track, "Fear and Loathing", discusses the trope the most, with lines like, "Got different people inside my head / I wonder which one that they like best."

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* AlterEgoActing: One of the major themes of "Electra Heart" is the Archetypes: [[{{Housewife}} Su-Barbie-A]], [[YourCheatingHeart Homewrecker]], Homewrecker, [[ThePrimadonna Primadonna]], and [[BrokenBird Teen Idle]]. Marina assumes these personas throughout the album as she explore the negative aspects of each. The last track, "Fear and Loathing", discusses the trope the most, with lines like, "Got different people inside my head / I wonder which one that they like best."



* YourCheatingHeart: "Homewrecker" is a little unusual as being a VillainSong sung from the perspective of a compulsive heartbreaker, explaining (if not excusing) her way of thinking. Or perhaps it's just the song of a desperate ''[[CasanovaWannabe wannabe]]'' FemmeFatale.
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* IllGirl: There's quite a few references to Electra puking, and the titular track features the line "you could always pray that the sickness, it could go away". There's also the fact that Electra presents herself as being suicidal multiple times throughout the album.
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** Lastly, in the send-off song and video released to mark the end of the era:
--->I'm Electra, I'm Electra Heart.
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->I’m Electra, I’m Electra Heart\\
Only living, living in the dark\\
Lights, they blind me..
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-->—Marina on ''Electra Heart'', via [[https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/straight-shooting-star-welsh-greek-singer-marina-diamandis-on-breaking-back-in-1.2136793 Irish Times]]

''Electra Heart'' (2012) is the second studio album by Welsh singer Marina Diamandis (then known by the StageName of Music/MarinaAndTheDiamonds). It was released on 27 April, 2012 by 679 Artists and Atlantic Records. A highly cinematic ConceptAlbum[[note]]Marina's official Website/YouTube channel released eleven short film clips for ''Electra Heart''[[/note]], it consists of electropop and dance-pop music, a distinct departure from her earlier projects. Lyrically, the album discusses topics of love and identity. Diamandis created the title character "Electra Heart" to represent female archetypes in popular American culture (Housewife, Beauty Queen, Homewrecker and Idle Teen).

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-->—Marina -->-- '''Marina Diamandis''' on ''Electra Heart'', via [[https://www.''[[https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/straight-shooting-star-welsh-greek-singer-marina-diamandis-on-breaking-back-in-1.2136793 Irish Times]]

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''Electra Heart'' (2012) is the second studio album by Welsh singer SingerSongwriter Marina Diamandis (then known by the StageName of Music/MarinaAndTheDiamonds). It was released on 27 April, 2012 2012, by 679 Artists and Atlantic Records. A highly cinematic ConceptAlbum[[note]]Marina's official Website/YouTube channel released eleven short film clips for ''Electra Heart''[[/note]], it consists of electropop and dance-pop music, a distinct departure from her earlier projects. Lyrically, the album discusses topics of love and identity. Diamandis created the title character "Electra Heart" to represent female archetypes in popular American culture (Housewife, culture--the {{Housewife}}, the [[LovableAlphaBitch Beauty Queen, Homewrecker Queen]], the [[SerialHomewrecker Homewrecker]], and the [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife Idle Teen).

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--->Welcome to the life of '''Electra Heart'''!

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--->Welcome to the life of '''Electra Heart'''!''Electra Heart''!



--->'''Electra Heart''', are you faux-real?

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--->'''Electra Heart''', --->''Electra Heart'', are you faux-real?



* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: "Teen Idle" has this line: "I want blood, guts, and '''chocolate cake'''." The "chocolate cake" bit is changed to "angel cake" later in the song, but the trope still stands.

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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: "Teen Idle" has this line: "I want blood, guts, and '''chocolate cake'''.''chocolate cake''." The "chocolate cake" bit It is changed to "angel cake" later in the song, but the trope still stands.



* DarkReprise: The songs on ''Electra Heart'' aren't very lyrically upbeat to begin with, but the acoustic versions could be considered the DarkReprise of the original ones. "Lies" is the best example of this, as the more upbeat pop version can be considered a kind of 'moving on' song, while the acoustic version sounds like hurt, bitterness and ongoing agony.
* DyingAlone: Feared in "Teen Idle." [[DrivenToSuicide Tragically a self-fulfilling prophecy by the final act.]]
-->I wish I wasn't such a narcissist\\
I wish I didn't really kiss\\
The mirror when I'm on my own\\
Oh God, I'm gonna die alone.

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* DarkReprise: The songs on ''Electra Heart'' aren't very lyrically upbeat to begin with, but the acoustic versions could be considered the DarkReprise of the original ones. "Lies" is the best example of this, as the more upbeat pop version can be considered a kind of 'moving on' song, while the acoustic version sounds like hurt, bitterness bitterness, and ongoing agony.
* DyingAlone: Feared in "Teen Idle.Idle": "Oh God, I'm gonna die alone." [[DrivenToSuicide Tragically a self-fulfilling prophecy by the final act.]]
-->I wish I wasn't such a narcissist\\
I wish I didn't really kiss\\
The mirror when I'm on my own\\
Oh God, I'm gonna die alone.
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* FriendsWithBenefits: "Lies" and "Starring Role." The former is [[AmbiguousSituation arguable]], as it's told from the Housewife's perspective.

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-->"It's like a formula that no one can refuse. I remember seeing an interview with Madonna in the '80s and she was talking about how everyone is so attracted to the whole virgin/whore complex. And that is exactly Britney -- she mixed those elements so perfectly."

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-->"It's -->It's like a formula that no one can refuse. I remember seeing an interview with Madonna in the '80s and she was talking about how everyone is so attracted to the whole virgin/whore complex. And that is exactly Britney -- she mixed those elements so perfectly."


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* SerialHomewrecker: The song "Homewrecker" is from the perspective of a woman who jets between relationships, breaking up her lovers' marriages in the process, before moving on to the next one and leaving the previous lover brokenhearted. She herself is a BrokenBird who doesn't think she'll ever find happiness in love.
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* SelfBackingVocalist: She uses her echoing vocals during the bridge of "Valley of the Dolls".

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* SelfBackingVocalist: She uses her echoing vocals during the bridge of harmonizes with herself in "Starring Role" and "Valley of the Dolls".



* StepfordSmiler: "Starring Role" ("You don't love me, big fucking deal / I'll never tell you how I feel"), "Lies" ("I just want it to be perfect / To believe it's all been worth the fight")... much of Electra Heart, really, deals with repressing sadness in favor of a cushy suburban or glamorous, picture-perfect lifestyle. Fittingly, one of the Archetypes is the classic unhappy, buttoned-up '50s housewife.

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* StepfordSmiler: "Starring Role" ("You don't love me, big fucking deal / I'll never tell you how I feel"), "Lies" ("I just want it to be perfect / To believe it's all been worth the fight")... much of Electra Heart, really, the album deals with repressing sadness in favor of a cushy suburban or glamorous, picture-perfect lifestyle. Fittingly, one of the Archetypes is the classic unhappy, buttoned-up '50s housewife.
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%%* * StepfordSmiler: "Starring Role", "Lies"... Role" ("You don't love me, big fucking deal / I'll never tell you how I feel"), "Lies" ("I just want it to be perfect / To believe it's all been worth the fight")... much of Electra Heart, really.really, deals with repressing sadness in favor of a cushy suburban or glamorous, picture-perfect lifestyle. Fittingly, one of the Archetypes is the classic unhappy, buttoned-up '50s housewife.
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* {{Narcissist}}: "Teen Idle"

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-->''"I saw that album more as a musical; a sort of flamboyant, tongue-in-cheek, dark pop record, a pop opera, and humour was a very big component of it."''
--->—Marina on ''Electra Heart'', via [[https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/straight-shooting-star-welsh-greek-singer-marina-diamandis-on-breaking-back-in-1.2136793 Irish Times]]

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!!Tracklist:
# "Bubblegum Bitch" (2:34)
# "Primadonna" (3:41)
# "Lies" (3:46)
# "Homewrecker" (3:22)
# "Starring Role" (3:27)
# "The State of Dreaming" (3:36)
# "Power & Control" (3:46)
# "Living Dead" (4:04)
# "Teen Idle" (4:14)
# "Valley of the Dolls" (4:13)
# "Hypocrates" (4:01)
# "Fear and Loathing" (6:07)
# "Radioactive" (3:47)
# "Sex Yeah" (3:46)
# "Lonely Hearts Club" (3:01)
# "Buy the Stars" (4:47)
# "How to Be a Heartbreaker" (3:41)
# "Radioactive" (3:48)
# "Primadonna" (3:47)
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* InsultBackfire: "Homewrecker."

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* PunBasedTitle: In abundance.

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* SpokenWordInMusic: The verses in "Homewrecker".
* StepfordSmiler: "Starring Role", "Lies"... much of Electra Heart, really.

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* %%* StepfordSmiler: "Starring Role", "Lies"... much of Electra Heart, really.



* VillainSong: Several songs on ''Electra Heart'', particularly "Bubblegum Bitch," "Homewrecker" and "Radioactive."
* {{Yandere}}: Of the possessive kind in "Starring Role."

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* SelfBackingVocalist: She uses her echoing vocals during the bridge of "Valley of the Dolls".



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