History Music / MarinaAndTheDiamonds

-->Girls, we do\\
Whatever it will take\\
'Cause girls don't want\\
We don't want our hearts to break\\
In two\\
So it's better to be fake\\
Can't risk losing\\
In love again, babe

* PowerOfLove: "Immortal" says that love is the only thing that transcends death and the end of the world.

* 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.

* HumansAreBastards: Explicitly stated in "Savages":
-->Underneath it all, we're just savages\\
Hidden behind shirts, ties and marriages

--->''"You can't call my bluff\\
Time to back off, [[PrecisionFStrike motherfucker]]."''

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

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

-->''Gimme love, gimme dreams, gimme a good self esteem\\

I don't wanna feel blue anymore''

--->''"I'll chew you up and I'll spit you out\\

I'm gonna pop your bubblegum heart."''

-->''"You've been hanging with the unloved kids\\

But you are so magnetic, you pick up all the pins..."''

-->''"Drinking champagne to forget yesterday"''

-->''"I wish I wasn't such a narcissist\\

Oh God, I'm gonna die alone."''

--->''"Hollywood infected your brain\\
You wanted [[TheBigDamnKiss kissing in the rain]]."''

-->''"The good are never easy, the easy never good."''

--> "Britney Spears is a big influence. Huge. I think people thought I was joking about that for a long time. But when I was a teenager there was a genuine connection with this sweet girl who also had this very sexual side that people didn't really want to accept. Oh my God! And it was her idea! This is the thing -- [[ObfuscatingStupidity Britney is really smart]]. And in the way that she inspired "Electra Heart," if you step back from all the cynical stuff, it actually focuses on the idea of innocence being mixed with darkness. For some reason I really like that combination. I suppose because you don't really connect [[DarkisNotEvil innocence with darkness]]."

-->''"She's the apple of everybody's eye\\
With an angel voice, devil in disguise"''

-->''"They call me homewrecker, homewrecker, I broke a million hearts [[ItAmusedMe just for fun]]..."''

-->''"No, I don't love you\\

I just want to be held when I'm scared."''

-->''Underneath it all, we're just savages\\
Hidden behind shirts, ties and marriages''

--->''All the people living in, living in the world today\\
We're united by our love, we're united by our pain''

--->''"I know you only want to own me\\

Keep all your secrets undercover."''

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

I would buy it twice, twice\\
But if the earth ends in fire\\
And the seas are frozen in time\\
There'll be just one survivor\\
The memory that I was yours\\
And you were mine..."''

-->''"I feel like I'm the worst, so I always act like I'm the best."''

-->''"I wonder when the night will reach its end\\
The sleep is not my friend."''

-->''"Look like a girl but I think like a guy."''

--->''"Forego family, forego friends\\

Oh, it's a reasonable sacrifice."''

--->''"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\\

I'll never tell you how I feel..."''

-->''"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."''

-->''Girls, we do\\

In love again, babe''

-->''"You say that I'm kinda difficult\\
But it's always someone else's fault"''

--->''"You're like my dad\\

Regards from hell."''

-->''"Yeah you played the martyr for so long\\
That you can’t do anything wrong"''

--->''"You can't call my bluff\\
Time to back off, motherfucker."''

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

--->''"It only takes two lonely people\\

To fuck up two beautiful people"''

-->"Electra Heart is based on the assumption that girls who are massive bitches rarely get hurt in love."

* SplitPersonality: A major theme on ''Electra Heart'', especially the song "Fear and Loathing".
-->''"I've lived a lot of different lives, been different people many times...\\
Got different people inside my head, I wonder which one they like best..."''
** Also in "Valley of the Dolls"
---> ''"Living with identities that do not belong to me...\\
Pick a personality for free..."''

-->''"Boys and their toys and their six-inch rockets..."''

!!Marina and her work provide examples of:

* HumansAreFlawed: [[{{Foil}} By contrast]], "To Be Human" is considered this:
-->''All the people living in, living in the world today\\

* {{Hypocrite}}: The subject of "Hypocrates".
-->''"I know you only want to own me\\

Marina Lambrini Diamandis (born 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.

* TheDogBitesBack: "No More Suckers"

* ObsessionSong: "Radioactive".
-->''When you’re around me, I’m radioactive\\
My blood is burning, radioactive\\
I'm turning radioactive\\
My blood is radioactive\\
My heart is nuclear\\
Love is all that I fear\\
Ready to be let down\\
Now I’m heading for a meltdown''

* BeYourself: "Hypocrates".

* IAmTheBand: There's no band. Marina is a solo artist. The "Diamonds" are her fans.

We're united by our love, we're united by our pain (Ooh)''

Straight to number one."''

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* ''[[NewSoundAlbum Electra Heart]]'' (2012)

!Marina provides examples of:
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** Marina has since said that she doesn't like the song anymore due to her misunderstanding of feminism when she wrote it.

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

!!Discography

!!Tropes

--->''I'll chew you up and I'll spit you out\\

I'm gonna pop your bubblegum heart''

--->''You can't call my bluff\\
Time to back off, [[PrecisionFStrike motherfucker]].''

-->''You've been hanging with the unloved kids\\

But you are so magnetic, you pick up all the pins...''

-->''Drinking champagne to forget yesterday''

-->''I wish I wasn't such a narcissist\\

Oh God, I'm gonna die alone.''

--->''Hollywood infected your brain\\
You wanted [[TheBigDamnKiss kissing in the rain]]''

-->''The good are never easy, the easy never good''

--> "Britney Spears is a big influence. Huge. I think people thought I was joking about that for a long time. But when I was a teenager there was a genuine connection with this sweet girl who also had this very sexual side that people didn't really want to accept. Oh my God! And it was her idea! This is the thing -- [[ObfuscatingStupidity Britney is really smart]]. And in the way that she inspired "Electra Heart," if you step back from all the cynical stuff, it actually focuses on the idea of innocence being mixed with darkness. For some reason I really like that combination. I suppose because you don't really connect [[DarkisNotEvil innocence with darkness."]]

-->''She's the apple of everybody's eye\\
With an angel voice, devil in disguise''

-->''They call me homewrecker, homewrecker, I broke a million hearts [[ItAmusedMe just for fun]]...''

-->''No, I don't love you\\

I just want to be held when I'm scared.''

-->I know you only want to own me\\

Keep all your secrets undercover

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

And you were mine...''

-->''I feel like I'm the worst, so I always act like I'm the best.''

-->''I wonder when the night will reach its end\\
The sleep is not my friend''

-->''Look like a girl but I think like a guy''

--->''Forego family, forego friends\\

Oh, it's a reasonable sacrifice.''

--->''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\\

I'll never tell you how I feel...''

-->"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."

-->''You say that I'm kinda difficult\\
But it's always someone else's fault''

--->'' You're like my dad\\

Regards from hell."

-->Yeah you played the martyr for so long\\
That you can’t do anything wrong

--->''You can't call my bluff\\
Time to back off, motherfucker.''

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

--->''It only takes two lonely people\\

To fuck up two beautiful people''

-->"Electra Heart is based on the assumption that girls who are massive bitches rarely get hurt in love".

-->''I've lived a lot of different lives, been different people many times...''
-->''Got different people inside my head, I wonder which one they like best...''

--> ''Living with identities that do not belong to me...''
--> ''Pick a personality for free...''

-->''Boys and their toys and their six-inch rockets...''

** A rather strange case with "Better Than That", in which Marina is mad that her ''ex'' has lowered themselves to someone beneath them. However unlike most songs in this vein it [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] the slut-shaming mindset.

-->'' You're like my dad\\

** "Buy The Stars".

* LonelyAtTheTop: A moral to take away from ''Electra Heart''.

-->''Forego family, forego friends\\

* AlbumTitleDrop: In "Bubblegum Bitch":
-->''"Welcome to the life of '''Electra Heart'''!"''

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

-->Drinking champagne to forget yesterday

* LoveMartyr: "Lies":
-->''I don't want to admit that we're not gonna fit\\

** Also "Starring Role".
-->''You don't love me\\

* PrecisionFStrike: In "Can't Pin Me Down."
** And again in "Seventeen":

** Any of the more uptempo songs on ''Electra Heart'' ("Bubblegum Bitch", "Primadonna", "How to Be a Heartbreaker", "Radioactive") are lighter in music while hosting dark, ironic lyrics.