History Music / MarinaAndTheDiamonds

* PunBasedTitle: "Shampain" and "Hermit the Frog".

* VillainProtagonist: As suggested above with several of the tracks on the album, the titular character of ''Electra Heart'' is a self-admitted AlphaBitch, homewrecker, primadonna, heartbreaker, and in general a very unpleasant and cold person who gets what she wants out of people (love, sex, attention, and material things) and doesn't care about the repercussions. It's a statement on how young girls believe they should act, and how society tells them to act.

* ConceptAlbum: ''Electra Heart'' is about [[SplitPersonality different facets of the female psyche]], told through the perspective of a lonely woman (who is clearly [[BrokenBird seriously mentally ill and suicidal]]).

* ConceptAlbum: ''Electra Heart'' is about [[SplitPersonality different facets of the female psyche]], told through the perspective of a lonely teenage girl (who is clearly [[BrokenBird seriously mentally ill and suicidal]]).

* TheSociopath: Marina appears to think that the single-minded pursuit of success is sociopathic -- or at least that it pushes people that way.
-->''Don't do love, don't do friends\\
I'm only after success\\
Don't need a relationship\\
I'll never soften my grip''
--->-- "Oh No!"

* SpoiledSweet: Considering ''Electra Heart'' is basically '''about''' Music/BritneySpears and she's a sweetheart, it applies.

Marina Lambrini Diamandis (10 October 1985), better known by her stage name Marina & the Diamonds (yes, it's just one person), is a Welsh singer-songwriter. Signed to 679 Recordings, she released her debut album, ''The Family Jewels'' in Febuary 2010, her second, ''Electra Heart'', in April 2012, and her third, ''Froot'', in March 2015. ''Electra Heart'' went to #1 in the UK and Ireland.

-> ''Soda pop, soda pop here I come''\\
''Straight to number one''

* 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 ''wannabe'' FemmeFatale.

* ThreeMinutesOfWrithing: [[GenderInvertedTrope Genderflipped]]/parodied with the video for "How to Be a Heartbreaker". It's common to see music videos featuring a clothed male artist and scantily clad female dancers, but this video surrounds a clothed Marina with men in Speedos.

* CallOut: It may be unintentional, or just a pervasive image, but "Immortal" appears to borrow a motif from Creator/RobertFrost's "Fire and Ice". Frost's poem opens "Some say the world will end in fire[=/=]Some say in ice"; the song has the lines "But if the earth ends in fire[=/=]And the seas are frozen in time" -- and both are reflections on human emotions in the face of mortality.

* ShoutOut: "Dear Diary" and "Soda Pop" by Music/BritneySpears get a shout out in "Bubblegum Bitch".

* DyingAlone: Feared in "Teen Idle".

* FemmeFatale: Who her ex is dating in "Better Than That".

* HatesBeingAlone: "Blue"

* HumansAreBastards: Pretty explicitly in "Savages".

* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: "Oh No!"

* LoveMartyr: "Lies".
-->''I don't want to admit that we're not gonna fit / No, I'm not the type that you like, why don't we just pretend?''

-->''You don't love me / Big fucking deal / I'll never tell you how I feel...''

--->''I felt you question the way I was brought up as a baby
--->Well, you don't know fuck about my family.''

* DestructiveRomance: One of her favorite tropes, which shows up in a lot of her songs.

* {{Eagleland}}: "[[HorribleHollywood Hollywood]]" is a satire of the American Dream. As Marina puts it, "I'm obsessed with the mess that is America!" The music video has a lot of typical American imagery. Commentary on the theme is also the crux of her "Electra Heart" persona.
* EaglelandOsmosis:
-->''Hollywood infected your brain\\

-->I'm forever chasing after time\\

And you were mine

-->Don't do love, don't do friends\\

I'll never soften my grip

* TheSociopath: Marina appears to think that the single-Minded pursuit of success is sociopathic -- or at least that it pushes people that way.

--->"Immortal"

--->"Oh No!"

Marina Lambrini Diamandis (10 October 1985), better known by her stage name '''Marina & the Diamonds''' (yes, it's just one person), is a Welsh singer-songwriter. Signed to 679 Recordings, she released her debut album, ''The Family Jewels'' in Febuary 2010, her second, ''Electra Heart'', in April 2012, and her third, ''Froot'', in March 2015. ''Electra Heart'' went to #1 in the UK and Ireland.

* DrivenToSuicide: "Living Dead" and "Teen Idle".

* SpoiledBrat: The lyrics in "{{Primadonna}} Girl" sound like as if it where based off the thoughts of a BrattyTeenageDaughter with lots of cash and ''way too much'' popularity.
* SpoiledSweet: Considering Electra Heart is basically ABOUT Music/BritneySpears and she's a sweetheart, it applies.

* MadonnaWhoreComplex: Discussed in "Teen Idle"

* 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."

* BreakUpSong: "Lies" and "Homewrecker" and "I'm A Ruin"

* NewSoundAlbum: ''The Family Jewels'' was a 80's throwback. For ''Electra Heart'', Marina took it down-tempo and into more mainstream pop.