History Music / MarinaAndTheDiamonds

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-> ''"I don't think it's constructive for an artist to feel like they need to have an element of pain or self-destruction to make good work. I definitely think moments of hardship or turmoil can inspire great things. But I also don't want to be unhappy."''

Marina Lambrini Diamandis (born 10 October, 1985), better known by her former 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, and has followed this with several more -- see below. Her musical style ranges from keyboard-based ballads to more up-tempo New Wave-style songs with full band backing.

Her former stage name, "Marina & the Diamonds", consists of Diamandis' first name and the translation of her surname which means "Diamonds" in Greek. Although "The Diamonds" was often mistakenly believed to refer to her backing band, it in fact referred to Diamandis' fans: she explained this on her [=MySpace=] page by saying "I'm Marina. You are the diamonds." Prior to the release of her 2019 double album ''Love + Fear'', however, she changed her stage name in all her social media to MARINA.

The highly cinematic, (in her own words) "pop opera" ''Music/ElectraHeart'' (2012) has its own page. Tropes specific to the album belong there.

'''Discography:'''
* ''Mermaid VS Sailor'' (2007)
* ''The Family Jewels'' (2010)
* ''Music/ElectraHeart'' (2012)
* ''Froot'' (2015)
* ''Love + Fear'' (2019, double album, the first released as MARINA)
* ''Love + Fear (Acoustic)'' (2019; contains acoustic versions of five songs that originally appeared on ''Love + Fear'')
* "About Love" (2020; single from the soundtrack of ''Film/ToAllTheBoysPSIStillLoveYou'')
* ''Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land'' (to be released on June 11, 2021)
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!!Associated tropes:

* AliceAllusion: "Forget" mentions "Chasing rabbits down a hole."
* AllJustADream: The entire music video of "Shampain", possibly triggered by eating a [[MushroomSamba burger]].
* AllTakeAndNoGive: The narrator of "Blue" is the taker. She demands:
-->Gimme love, gimme dreams, gimme a good self esteem\\
Gimme good and pure, what you waiting for?\\
Gimme everything, all your heart can bring\\
Something good and true\\
I don't wanna feel blue anymore
** As she's broken up with the subject of the song, openly admits that she doesn't love him and doesn't care, she doesn't give anything in return.
* AuthorAppeal: Feminism, romance and sex -- in an ironic way.
* BadassBoast: "Can't Pin Me Down" is an extended boast that no one can make her less than what she is.
--->You can't call my bluff\\
Time to back off, [[PrecisionFStrike motherfucker]].
* BeYourself: "True," among other songs.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Who her ex is dating in "Better Than That":
-->She's the apple of everybody's eye / With an angel voice, devil in disguise
* BittersweetSeventeen: "Seventeen".
* BluebirdOfHappiness: Mentioned in "Handmade Heaven."
-->But in this handmade heaven, I come alive\\
Bluebirds forever color the sky
* BreakUpSong: "I'm A Ruin"; many other songs on ''Froot''.
* ButLiquorIsQuicker: name-dropped in E.V.O.L:
--> Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.\\
Every kiss you give me makes me sicker.
* CelebrityResemblance: In the song "Hollywood," she talks about being mistaken for Music/{{Shakira}} (at least in Shakira's younger years) and Creator/CatherineZetaJones.
-->She said, “Oh my god! You look just like Shakira!”\\
“No, no, you’re Catherine Zeta!”\\
Actually, my name’s Marina
* CharacterMagneticTeam / RagtagBunchOfMisfits: "I Am Not A Robot"
-->You've been hanging with the unloved kids\\
Who you never really liked and you never trusted\\
But you are so magnetic, you pick up all the pins...
* DarkerAndEdgier: ''The Family Jewels'' had some somber lyrics, but generally wasn't that dark, and even a little silly at times. ''Electra Heart'' is much darker and more ironic, touching on themes of heartbreak, denial, loneliness, and despair. ''Froot'', by contrast, is more just HotterAndSexier.
* DestructiveRomance: One of her favorite tropes, showing up in a lot of her songs.
* TheDogBitesBack: "No More Suckers", a song about cutting off those taking advantage of her.
* DownerEnding: Marina seems fond of these:
** The U.S. edition of ''The Family Jewels'' ends with "Numb", a heartbreaking song about the true cost of fame.
** The Electra Heart era ended with the titular persona's death.
** ''Froot'' goes through many stages of a breakup, but ends with "Immortal", which is emotionally crushing.
** "Soft to Be Strong" averts this in ''Love + Fear''. Despite being the final song in the ''Fear'' section the theme is about allowing yourself to be vulnerable in order for love to prevail.
* DrivenToSuicide: "Living Dead" and "Teen Idle". Electra Heart herself commits suicide by the end of the album.
* DrowningMySorrows: "Shampain".
-->Drinking champagne to forget yesterday
* {{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, and the song refers to the EaglelandOsmosis effect:
--->Hollywood infected your brain\\
You wanted [[TheBigDamnKiss kissing in the rain]].
** Commentary on the theme is also the crux of her "Electra Heart" persona.
* FanGirl: Music/BritneySpears was Marina's muse for ''Electra Heart.''
-->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]].
* FlamesOfLove: "Starlight". Old loves are described as burned-out stars; you can still see their light even though the star has been dead a long time.
-->Stars and love burn bright,\\
Till they’re ready to die
* ForeignCultureFetish: American pop culture. "Hollywood" from ''The Family Jewels'' (2010) hints at this; ''Electra Heart'' was a fully fledged ode to her fascination with the USA.
* HatesBeingAlone: "Blue":
-->No, I don't love you\\
No, I don't care\\
I just want to be held when I'm scared.
* HopeSpot: "Fear and Loathing" in ''Electra Heart.''
* HumansAreBastards: "Savages" is about the animalistic nature of humans.
-->Another day, another tale of rape\\
Another ticking bomb to bury deep and detonate\\
I'm not the only one who finds it hard to understand\\
I'm not afraid of God\\
I'm afraid of Man
* HumansAreFlawed:
** "Savages" is the contemplation of HumansAreBastards vs. HumansAreFlawed. She leans more towards the former but still asks, "Is it a human trait, or [[RousseauWasRight is it learned behaviour]]?" and says, "we can be bad as we can be good."
** "To Be Human":
--->All the people living in, living in the world today\\
We're united by our love, we're united by our pain
* {{Hypocrite}}: In "Savages," Marina accuses humanity as a whole of this:
--->Underneath it all, we're just savages\\
Hidden behind shirts, ties and marriages
* IAmTheBand: There's no band. Marina is a solo artist. The "Diamonds" are her fans. Enforced in 2019 with the change of name to Marina only.
* ImmortalitySeeker: "Immortal" is a melancholy reflection on the human desire for {{immortality}} in some form, and the futility of pursuing it. Maybe [[EternalLove love achieves immortality]] in a way, but what good does that do anybody?
-->I'm forever chasing after time\\
But everybody dies, dies\\
If I could buy forever at a price\\
I would buy it twice, twice
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: "Oh No!":
-->I feel like I'm the worst, so I always act like I'm the best.
* TheInsomniac: In "Shampain":
-->I wonder when the night will reach its end\\
The sleep is not my friend.
* IntercourseWithYou:
** "Froot". Marina is also ''[[MyBiologicalClockIsTicking very]]'' [[MyBiologicalClockIsTicking welcoming]] for it.
** In "Blue" she wants to "do it one last time."
* InternationalPopSongEnglish: An aversion. Her accent is very prominent across her four records.
* {{Irony}}: The second verse of "Man's World" comments on the well-known vivid pink [[https://www.dorchestercollection.com/wp-content/uploads/beverly-hills-pool-1-landscape-1920x840.jpg Beverly Hills Hotel]], known for hosting Marilyn Monroe, being owned by the notoriously anti-gay Sultan of Brunei.
* IWantSong: "Immortal" is about wanting to be, well, {{immortal|itySeeker}}.
* TheLadette: The narrator of "Girls", which is mostly a TakeThat against shallow femininity.
-->Look like a girl but I think like a guy
* LikeParentLikeSpouse: "Starring Role" bitterly says, "You're like my dad / You'd get on well."
* LighterAndSofter:
** ''Froot'' is noticeably more cheerful than ''Electra Heart'', but a key song to note is ''Handmade Heaven'', the first single from ''Love + Fear'', in which Marina enjoys the comfort and security of herself and the refuge she's able to take in herself when the outside world is fearsome and confusing.
** The ''Love'' half of ''Love + Fear'' contains some genuinely happy songs, such as ''Orange Trees'', ''Superstar'', and ''Enjoy Your Life''.
* LonelyAtTheTop: The main message of "Numb" from ''The Family Jewels''
-->Forego family, forego friends\\
That's how it started, how it ends\\
[...]\\
I get dark just to\\
Shine!\\
Looking for the golden lie\\
Oh, it's a reasonable sacrifice
* LyricalDissonance:
** "Oh No!" sounds like a happy New Wave song, but is lyrically about Marina becoming the very person she loathes to be -- a StepfordSmiler pop star.
** "Blue," a happy, funky-sounding song with lyrics surrounding a harsh breakup and regrets over ending the relationship.
** On the other hand, "Happy", the opener track on "Froot", is a slow piano ballad written in a minor key, and is easily one of the happiest songs Marina has ever recorded.
* LyricalTic: The chorus of "I'm a Ruin": "YEEEEAAAAHHHHH UHHH HUUHHHHH OHHH HHOOOOOO YEEEEAAAHHHH"
* MidasTouch: Mentioned directly in "[[MoneySong Gold]]."
* MiseryBuildsCharacter: "Forget."
-->'Cause in the end, the road is long\\
But only 'cause it makes you strong\\
It's filled with peaks and twists and turns\\
Sometimes you have to learn to forget about it
* MoneySong: "Gold."
-->Yeah, I know that I need the gold / But what I love can't be bought or sold
* MsFanservice: The video to "Froot" has Marina dressed as a Golden Age of Hollywood actress, quite similar to Rita Hayworth. The fans were very impressed.
* NewSoundAlbum: ''The Family Jewels'' was a 80's throwback. For ''Electra Heart'', Marina took it down-tempo and into more mainstream pop. ''Froot'' is somewhere in between.
* NonAppearingTitle: "Mowgli's Road". The song is about being conflicted over which path to take, much like how Mowgli from ''Literature/TheJungleBook'' has to decide if he would rather stay in the jungle with his animal companions or join his fellow humans.
* OneWomanWail: She does it at the end of "Savages."
* OdeToIntoxication: "Shampain", of the sarcastic variety, as indicated by the punny title.
* ParentalIssues:
** "Bad Kidz".
** "Scab and Plaster".
** "Starring Role".
--->You're like my dad\\
You'd get on well\\
I'll send my best\\
Regards from hell
** "Buy The Stars" is about an over-controlling father who pushes his daughter from a young age into things she doesn't want to do.
** "Seventeen".
** "Sinful".
** "Mermaid vs. Sailor".
** "The Family Jewels" (song).
** "Guilty".
* PepTalkSong: "Enjoy Your Life".
* ThePowerOfLove: "Immortal" says that love is the only thing that transcends death and the end of the world.
* PrecisionFStrike:
** "Can't Pin Me Down."
--->You can't call my bluff\\
Time to back off, motherfucker
** "Seventeen":
--->I felt you question the way I was brought up as a baby\\
Well, you don't know fuck about my family
* ProtestSong: Marina's songs sometimes include large elements of sociopolitical protest, if not in the traditional style of protest songs. For example, "Man's World" (from ''Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land'') declares:
-->Mother Nature's dying\\
Nobody's keeping score\\
I don't wanna live in a man's world anymore
* PunBasedTitle:
** ''The Family Jewels''. Her family name is a kind of jewel.
** "Shampain"
** "Hermit the Frog"
** "E.V.O.L"
** "Hypocrates"
** "Miss Y"
** "Teen Idle"
* QuestioningTitle: "Are You Satisfied?"
* RealWomenDontWearDresses: "Girls" has a lot of this.
* RevengeBallad: "Just Desserts", a collaboration with Music/CharliXCX, about getting revenge on a lover for an unspecified offence.
-->Karma came around like I knew it would\\
Like I knew it would\\
And it feels so good [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine when the shoe is put\\
On the other foot]]
* RockStarSong:
** "Buy The Stars", "Hollywood", "Are You Satisfied?", "Girls", "Valley of the Dolls", "Teen Idle", "Primadonna", "State of Dreaming", "Bubblegum Bitch" and possibly more, due to Marina being fond of this trope.
** Subverted with "[[NonIndicativeName Superstar]]", it's actually more a SillyLoveSong where Marina is praising the connection between herself and her partner.
* ShoutOut:
** "[[MoneySong Gold]]" mentions [[CityOfGold El Dorado]] and MidasTouch.
** 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.
* StepfordSmiler:
** "Are You Satisfied?"
--->One life pretending to be / The cat who got the cream\\
[...]\\
And it's my problem if I have no friends / And feel I want to die
** The narrator of "Oh No!"
* TakeThat: "Savages" is one to all of humanity and how it acts like it is any better than animals.
* TheresNoPlaceLikeHome: "Orange Trees"
* ThreeMinutesOfWrithing: A number of Marina's other videos invoke but then subvert the trope by featuring mostly Marina singing and dancing -- in strange costumes and wigs and odd locations, with at least hints of dark or tragic plotlines.
* VisualPun: In the music video for "Oh No!", while Marina is singing "I just wanna change" repeatedly, a line of coins briefly pop up.
* XtremeKoolLetterz: "Bad Kidz".
* {{Yandere}}: 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 {{subvert|edTrope}}s the slut-shaming mindset.

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--->Forego family, forego friends\\

* PunBasedTitle:
** ''The Family Jewels''. Her family name is a kind of jewel.
** "Shampain"
** "Hermit the Frog"
** "E.V.O.L"
** "Hypocrates"
** "Miss Y"
** "Teen Idle"

Marina Lambrini Diamandis (born 10 October, 1985), better known by her former 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, her third, ''Froot'', in March 2015 and her fourth ''Love + Fear'' in April 2019. ''Electra Heart'' went to #1 in the UK and Ireland.

Her stage name, "Marina & the Diamonds", consists of Diamandis' first name and the translation of her surname which means "Diamonds" in Greek. Although "The Diamonds" is often mistakenly believed to refer to her backing band, it in fact refers to Diamandis' fans: she explains this on her [=MySpace=] page by saying "I'm Marina. You are the diamonds."

Diamandis' musical style ranges from keyboard-based ballads to more up-tempo New Wave-style songs with full band backing.

Prior to the release of her 2019 double album ''Love + Fear'', she changed her stage name in all her social media to MARINA.

* ''Love + Fear'' (2019, double album, released as MARINA)

* 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 her lover brokenhearted. {{Deconstructed}}, as she's a BrokenBird who doesn't think she'll ever find true love.

* TheLadette: The personality Marina assumes in "Girls", which is mostly a TakeThat against shallow femininity.

* FemmeFatale: Who her ex is dating in "Better Than That":
-->She's the apple of everybody's eye\\
With an angel voice, devil in disguise

* AllJustADream: The entire music video of [[spoiler:"Shampain", possibly triggered by eating a [[MushroomSamba burger]]]].

* TheCasanova: Female version in both "Homewrecker" and "How To Be A Heartbreaker".

* RecapEpisode: The music video for "Electra Heart", the final part of the music video series for the eponymous album. It also symbolizes [[MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes how Electra's life went by]] before "dying" as Marina ended promotion at the same time for the album with a tweet saying "Goodbye, Electra Heart!".

* SplitPersonality: A major theme on ''Electra Heart'', especially:
** "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...
** "Valley of the Dolls":
--->Living with identities that do not belong to me...\\
Pick a personality for free

* StepfordSmiler: The narrator of "Oh No!"

** Averted, despite its place in the "Fear" section, with "Soft to Be Strong". The song is about allowing vulnerability with love in order to overcome the fear.

The highly cinematic, (in her own words) "pop opera" ''Music/ElectraHeart''(2012) has its own page. Tropes specific to the album belong there.

* ''Electra Heart'' (2012)

* AlbumTitleDrop:
** In "Bubblegum Bitch":
--->Welcome to the life of '''Electra Heart'''!
** In the music video series interlude "The Archetypes":
--->'''Electra Heart''', are you faux-real?

* 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."
* AmbitionIsEvil: Word of God says that "Electra" is her meditation on the negative effects of fame and fortune.
* AntiLoveSong: "Electra Heart" is based on the assumption that girls who are massive bitches rarely get hurt in love.
* 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.

* BadassBoast:
** "Bubblegum Bitch":
--->I'll chew you up and I'll spit you out\\
'Cause that's what young love is all about\\
So pull me closer and kiss me hard\\
I'm gonna pop your bubblegum heart.
** "Can't Pin Me Down" is an extended boast that no one can make her less than what she is.

* BeYourself: "Hypocrates", "True".

* BreakUpSong: "Lies" and "Homewrecker" and "I'm A Ruin"; many other songs on ''Froot''.
* BrokenAce: A recurring theme in in her second album.

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

* EvilIsEasy: "Homewrecker":
-->The good are never easy, the easy never good.

* ForTheEvulz:
-->They call me homewrecker, homewrecker, I broke a million hearts [[ItAmusedMe just for fun]]...
* FriendsWithBenefits: "Lies" and "Starring Role." The former is [[AmbiguousSituation arguable]], as it's told from the Housewife's perspective.

* {{Hypocrite}}:
** The subject of "Hypocrates".
--->I know you only want to own me\\
And that’s the kind of love you show me\\
You tell me one thing and do another\\
Keep all your secrets undercover.
** In "Savages," Marina accuses humanity as a whole of this:

* InsultBackfire: "Homewrecker".

* InternationalPopSongEnglish: An aversion. An English accent is very prominent across her four records.

* LonelyAtTheTop:
** A moral to take away from ''Electra Heart''.
** Also the main message of "Numb" from ''The Family Jewels''

* 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?
** "Starring Role":
--->You don't love me\\
Big fucking deal\\
I'll never tell you how I feel...

** "Oh No!" sounds like a happy New Wave song, but is lyrically about Marina becoming the very person she loathes to be-- a StepfordSmiler pop star.
** 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. "Living Dead" is a song about feeling dead inside, and the instrumental sounds like something you can dance to.

* MadonnaWhoreComplex: Discussed in "Teen Idle". ''I wanna be a virgin pure, 21st century whore...''
-->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.
* 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.

* TheMuse: Music/BritneySpears inspired the Electra Heart project.
* NeverBeHurtAgain: "How to Be a Heartbreaker" has this somber lines:
-->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
* NeverMyFault: "Primadonna".
-->You say that I'm kinda difficult\\
But it's always someone else's fault

* ObsessionSong: "Radioactive" is mostly passive as she says she's "heading for a meltdown" because of her feelings, but there is a couple of aggressive lines thrown in as well ("I'm gonna leave you drowning until you reach for my hand").

* PlayingTheVictimCard: "Hypocrates".
-->Yeah you played the martyr for so long\\
That you can’t do anything wrong

** "Starring Role."
--->You don't love me, big fucking deal\\
I'll never tell you how I feel
** "E.V.O.L"
--->It only takes two lonely people\\
To fuck love up and make it evil\\
It only takes a drop of evil\\
To fuck up two beautiful people

* RichBitch: Embraced in ''Electra Heart''.
-->Electra Heart is based on the assumption that girls who are massive bitches rarely get hurt in love.
* RockStarSong: "Buy The Stars", "Hollywood", "Are You Satisfied?", "Girls", "Valley of the Dolls", "Teen Idle", "Primadonna", "State of Dreaming", "Bubblegum Bitch" and possibly more, due to Marina being fond of this trope.

** "Dear Diary" and "Soda Pop" by Music/BritneySpears get a shout out in "Bubblegum Bitch".
** In E.V.O.L, Marina mentions [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet her Romeo]] -- and how she wants to be a [[Music/{{INXS}} suicide blonde]].

* SpoiledBrat: The lyrics in "Primadonna" sound like as if it where based off the thoughts of a BrattyTeenageDaughter with lots of cash and ''way too much'' popularity.
* SpokenWordInMusic: The verses in "Homewrecker".
* StepfordSmiler: "Starring Role", "Lies"... much of Electra Heart, really. And "Oh No!" as well.
* TakeThat:
** "Sex Yeah" criticizes how women tend to be oversexualized by history and the media, and how it impedes women from embracing their sexuality as they want to.
** "Savages" is one to all of humanity and how it acts like it is any better than animals.

* 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.
** A number of Marina's other videos invoke but then subvert the trope by featuring mostly Marina singing and dancing -- in strange costumes and wigs and odd locations, with at least hints of dark or tragic plotlines.
* UnusualEuphemism:
-->Boys and their toys and their six-inch rockets...
* VillainSong: Several songs on ''Electra Heart'', particularly "Bubblegum Bitch", "Homewrecker" and "Radioactive".
* VillainProtagonist: 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.

* WomanScorned: Most of ''Electra Heart'', as she has mentioned in a few interviews that one of the main themes is rejection.

* {{Yandere}}:
** Of the possessive kind in "Starring Role".
** 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 {{subvert|edTrope}}s the slut-shaming mindset.
* 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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-> ''"Soda pop, soda pop, baby, here I come,\\
Straight to number one"''
-->-- "Bubblegum Bitch"

!!Marina and the Tropes:

* ForeignCultureFetish: American pop culture. "Hollywood" from ''The Family Jewels'' (2010) hints at this; "Electra Heart" was a fully fledged ode to her fascination with the USA.

Her stage name, "Marina & the Diamonds", consists of Diamandis' first name and the translation of her surname which means "Diamonds" in Greek. Although "The Diamonds" is often mistakenly believed to refer to her backing band, it in fact refers to Diamandis' fans: she explains this on her Myspace page by saying "I'm Marina. You are the diamonds."

* FriendsWithBenefits: "Lies" and "Starring Role"
** "Lies" is arguable, as it's told from the Housewife's perspective.

-->I've lived a lot of different lives, been different people many times...\\

* LighterAndSofter: ''Froot'' is noticeably more cheerful than ''Electra Heart'', but a key song to note is ''Handmade Heaven'', the first single from ''Love + Fear'', in which Marina enjoys the comfort and security of herself and the refuge she's able to take in herself when the outside world is fearsome and confusing.

** The U.S. edition of ''The Family Jewels'' ends with Numb, a heartbreaking song about the true cost of fame.