Marina & The Diamonds!

I think she's dating one of the dudes from Hurts, but I'm sure they swing.

Still my second favorite album of the year!

I think she's brilliant musically and I expect her next album will make more of a dent.

http://i1044.photobucket.com/albums/b448/wotyougot/theo-marina2.jpg

I could beat this dude! I'll just start doing light eye makeup and dark lips so she & I contrast.

Having been introduced to 'I Feel Love' a little earlier I'm struck by how much in that vein 'Shampain' is!

I love "Oh No!" – I relate to the lyrics 90-100%. Plus it's just good uncut pop.

As discussed upthread, she's kind of unique in that her songs are an autobiographical open book without all the flowery songwriter poetry. Pre-major label days, her blog posts on (lol) Myspace were just like her songs. In fact, The Family Jewels is kind of like a blog set to music.

IDK I wouldn't say it's poetry free – like I said, I feel like it took me forever to figure out the conceits in Shampain. OTOH I see why choruses like "I feel numb most of the time" make you say blog-to-music. I'm just a poetry stan (or poetry "dave") at heart, hence the defensiveness.

I do agree w/you, though. She expresses a lot of feelings that are mundane* and vulnerable at the same time, feelings that don't end up in pop lyrics too often.

*not meant perjoratively

she is the frank capra of girlpop

lol

can't remember how banging Capra's tunesmithery was.

not as banging as this i reckon

Speaking of banging, I just watched the "Oh No!" vid and she draws a rainbow in the air. I am taking this as a "yes" to my proposal.

She told me on twitter once that she loved me because of something I wrote. I wish I would've screengrabbed it.

:D

"easy to be sleazy" <3 <3 <3

She told me on twitter once that she loved me because of something I wrote. I wish I would've screengrabbed it.

Yes, I would have wanted to archive that somehow.

I saved it as a favorite tweet, but about two weeks later it was gone. I gather she deleted it on her end.

Thus, our affair was short-lived! ;_;

The Library of Congress announced it was going to archive Twitter, but I don't know when that started (or much of anything else about it).

She probably wrote a song about it but realised it wasn't very good

'Tweet Fever'

haha

Having been introduced to 'I Feel Love' a little earlier

wtffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

yeah, o_O.

she can do way better than that Hurts guy.

I'm excited that she is apparently recording now or in the near future. I hope we get another album next year. It certainly sounds like it.

playing 10 mins walk from my house in two weeks

...for $50, fuck that noise

http://www.nme.com/news/marina-and-the-diamonds/54471

Marina And The Diamonds singer Marina Diamandis has said she's frustrated that she isn't as successful as she wants to be - describing her 2010 as "a failure".

Speaking to Australian radio station Undercover FM, Diamandis also said she was unhappy with how she had been promoted by her American record label.

"I feel more like a failure than a success," she said. "I haven’t done anything I want to do. For someone who wants to be one of the best artists of her generation, I've done fuck all."

The singer, who has always been outspoken about her ambitions, responded to a question about whether she was happy about her success in 2010 by saying: "No, I'm pissed off I'm not bigger."

She was specifically negative about her lack of success in the USA, blaming her American record label Chop Shop for not promoting her properly. "It’s [her American fanbase] been built purely on me and my online presence," she said. "The label haven't really promoted me at all."

Diamandis also spoke about the follow up to last year's debut album 'The Family Jewels', which she cancelled her planned January US tour to begin work on. "The second record will be all about the lyrics," she said. "It's quite political and it’s about feminism and sex. It's an abrasive pop record."

Gotta admit sounds a little bratty. I've talked about her w/ friends... we've all come to the general consensus that she's pretty "meh".

One one hand, she was never going to be the next Lady Gaga (or someone with a similar level of fame), but on the other hand she's absolutely right that her American label has dropped the ball. To my knowledge, she's been on television here exactly once in the last year (on Craig Ferguson's barely-watched late night show).

I think she's great but probably not for the same reasons she thinks she's great. In this case it's more about the music than the lyrics and persona and so forth, for me, though I wouldn't say those things don't count at all. It's a bit ominous the next one is supposed to be all about the lyrics, but it will probably turn out fine.

New song (one of a few new demos that are apparently floating about, although I haven't found them).

http://disconaivete.tumblr.com/post/2992155559/sex-yeah

I like it. It's not going to win her any fans around here. I don't think she's playing to her strengths by trying to be a social critic, but I like the music enough I don't care.

New album can't come soon enough for me.

Wank and The Socks

i only like a couple of her songs right now but she look intersting

'shampain' sounds like Army of Lovers imo

Here's a different one, "Living Dead"

http://soundcloud.com/meatmen/marina-the-diamonds-living-dead

Thanks for your research.

"Living Dead" sounds a little too much like Little Boots to me, but it's otherwise okay.

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That ones okay. Parts of it are musically bombastic in a way I'm not into. Sounds like a potential hit though.

I mostly ignore all those other BBC acts, or whatever dismissive term people use. Actually, I have given some of them a chance, but haven't been into any allegedly related acts (not even Florence & the Machine, though I can see the appeal).

This sounds like it could have been a hit in the mid-to-late 80s.

Wait, Little Boots is one of those acts, right?

She was. No one's heard from her since (which seemed like an inevitability).

'shampain' sounds like Army of Lovers imo

Ha! Maybe that's why I like Marina so much.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3124/3189455965_161ea36934.jpg

Marina music

I need to go back and refresh my memory re: Army of Lovers, apparently.

tbh I don't hear the comparison at all but if there is a cosmic thread *somewhere* it makes sense – I would like anyone psychically connected to Army of Lovers

its just that one song and i think it has to do with the production and vocals on the chorus