Trivia / Electra Heart

• Creator Breakdown/Creator Backlash: Marina has gone on record to reveal that the Electra Heart era almost made her quit music.
  Marina: I do feel like Electra Heart was complex because of that reason. Even though it's hard to talk about, because it was so fun on one hand, and there was so much genuine creativity, but there were also moments where I did experience working with people who were so successful and popular that I didn't really have a say in things like production. I just felt incredibly pressured to make a certain type of song because I was told that I wouldn't be played on the radio here if I wasn't. The thing is, I did get played on the radio a lot and I sold like, over a million copies of "Primadonna" and "Heartbreaker," so... God, it's really hard, because I feel like those songs really helped me and gave me an amazing fanbase, which I still have today. So, I think the thing that I sacrificed was my own comfort. Even though there were good things about taking that journey, my health suffered and I felt very uncomfortable as a person throughout that campaign because I felt like I had to be somebody else in order to be liked, which was so damaging to your soul. It takes a long time to recover from that.
• Dawson Casting: Marina Diamandis, then in her late twenties, playing a character called "Idle Teen."
• Dye Hard: Marina seemed to dye her hair blonde (there's lots of black left, though) for this era. It was actually a wig she used to hide the fact a lot of her hair had snapped off. The bows and hairbands she frequently wore were to hide the wigline.
• Executive Meddling: One of the primary reasons she hated performing as Electra Heart so much.
• Fake Nationality: Greek-British musician Marina channelling her fascination with the USA by depicting various American feminine archetypes.
• Meaningful Release Date: "E.V.O.L" was released on Valentine's Day. It's an Anti-Love Song.
• What Could Have Been:
  • A demo for "Valley of the Dolls" simply named after the Su-Barbie-A archetype is available on YouTube.
  • There are also two full-fleged songs "Scab and Plaster" and "Miss Y" that were made during recording of Electra Heart but were removed for separate reasons, the former replaced with "Living Dead" while the latter ended up not properly fitting in with the album's concept.

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