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Marina Lambrini Diamandis (born 10 October, 1985), also known by her former stage name Marina & the Diamonds (yes, it's just one person) as well as MARINA, is a Welsh singer-songwriter. Signed to 679 Recordings, she released her debut album, ''The Family Jewels'' in Febuary 2010. 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 Marina's 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, when it in fact referred to Marina's 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.
Her former stage name, "Marina & the Diamonds", consists of Marina's 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, when it in fact referred to Marina's 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.
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Marina Lambrini Diamandis (born 10 October, 1985), also known by her former stage name professionally as MARINA and formerly as Marina & the Diamonds (yes, [[IAmTheBand it's just one person) as well as MARINA, person]]), is a Welsh singer-songwriter. Signed to 679 Recordings, she released She has been active since 2005, and her debut album, ''The Family Jewels'' in Febuary 2010. Her musical style ranges from keyboard-based ballads to more up-tempo New Wave-style [[NewWaveMusic new wave]]-style songs with full band backing.
Her former stage name,"Marina Marina & the Diamonds", Diamonds, consists of Marina's 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, when it in fact referred to Marina's 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 on all of her social media to MARINA.
MARINA, which she goes by to this day.
Her former stage name,
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** 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.
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Marina Lambrini Diamandis (born 10 October, 1985), also known by her former stage name Marina & the Diamonds (yes, it's just one person) as well as MARINA, 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 Marina's 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 Marina's 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:'''
Her former stage name, "Marina & the Diamonds", consists of Marina's 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 Marina's 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.
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Marina Lambrini Diamandis (born 10 October, 1985), also known by her former stage name Marina & the Diamonds (yes, it's just one person) as well as MARINA, 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.2010. 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 Marina's first name and the translation of hersurname surname, which means "Diamonds" in Greek. Although "The Diamonds" was often mistakenly believed to refer to her backing band, when it in fact referred to Marina's fans: fans; she explained this on her [=MySpace=] page by saying 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 Her second album, the highly cinematic, (in her own words) cinematic self-dubbed "pop opera" ''Music/ElectraHeart'' (2012) (2012), has its own page. Tropes specific to the album belong there.
'''Discography:'''!!Discography:
Her former stage name, "Marina & the Diamonds", consists of Marina's first name and the translation of her
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* ArtistAndTheBand: An averted example. The "Diamonds" in question aren't any backing band and refer to Marina's fans.
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* TakeThat: "Savages" is one to all of humanity and how it acts like it is any better than animals.
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--->I got the beauty, got the brains\\
Got the power, hold the reins\\
I should be [[PrecisionFStrike motherfucking]] crazy.
--->I got the beauty, got the brains\\
Got the power, hold the reins\\
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* NewSoundAlbum: NewSoundAlbum:
** ''The Family Jewels'' was a 80'sthrowback. throwback.
** For ''Electra Heart'', Marina took it down-tempo and into more mainstreampop. dance and synth-pop with minor dubstep influences.
** ''Froot''is somewhere in between.saw Marina bring the 80's new-wave and piano ballads back.
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** ''The Family Jewels'' was a 80's
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** ''Froot''
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* OdeToIntoxication: "Shampain", of the sarcastic variety, as indicated by the punny title.
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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), also known by her former stage name Marina & the Diamonds (yes, it's just one person) as well as MARINA, 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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-> ''"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), also known by her former stage name Marina & the Diamonds (yes, it's just one person) as well as MARINA, 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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