howtobeaheartbreaker

This is exactly the sentiment I share. There was something so personal in her social commentary that made it so much more powerful. I think this type of commentary definitely suffers the most on L+F. Ancient Dreams is a step in the right direction, but still not entirely back.

I'm not upset about the release being months away because knowing her she probably won't release again until 2028 earliest after this...

B2b and VD remix are my fav things from this era so far, but all of the other tracks are great. It feels like she's not quite experimenting, but sort of actualizing the lane she's already carved out for herself.

I hope she has a Marina diss track on Brat

In an alternate universe she sold Starring Role to Rihanna or Selena Gomez and it was a hit in the US..

Seeing her live tonight... Will report back if I resurface unscathed. I'm sure the setlist will be the same as when I saw her pre NTMT in 2013. I'll eat it up anyways.

She deserves multiple awards for the BOTTOMS soundtrack/score. Some of those songs legitimately bring me to tears.

Is the NTMT reissue confirmed? I've seen it discussed here multiple times, but I always assumed it was hypothetical. I'd love Guardian, Pretty Dull, and I'm Not Alright to make it on.

Question for the culture: why is she still performing Guardian if it's scrapped?

She should work with Jack Antonoff

It's very interesting to hear the discourse about Marina being political in her music because it feels like most people mark it as a distinction that happened somewhere later into her career, but I felt like one of the things that astounded me about her sound back in the early 2010s was her outspokenness. For me personally, I think what's changed is that her lyrics feel so on the nose nowadays. Electra Heart is an explicitly feminist album, and TFJ is very critical of popular culture in the West (and how that affected coming of age of a millennial woman). It feels almost as if her life has ran out of the drama that fueled EH/TFJ, and she has to now draw upon those impersonal experiences in her songwriting to make vague statements about the human race and far away countries. FROOT was a good album, and L+F was kind of faceless, but both albums feel like she held back as a means to prove (perhaps to herself?) that she's no longer that crazy girl wearing the blonde wig, masquerading as a Stepford wife. Ancient Dreams on the other hand felt like an attempt to recapture the drama of her earlier career, though that felt very transparent and it didn't quite meet those expectations. I think that the best thing for Marina to do is surround herself with interesting people and experience life at its fullest, and that's when we'll get music that reaches her early days. I truly believe that Marina's career could re-peak again, but that's up to her. She's seemed to have settled down, so I'm expecting the best we'll get is a cute bop on a mid album here and there. That's fine. After the pain she went through that fueled TFJ/EH, I don't blame her for safeguarding herself. Though sometimes I do fear her insecurities have burnt bridges (cc: familiar FROOT)...

Trying so very hard not to get my hopes up

I'm kind of obsessed with how Charli's tweet to me during a q&a back in the day is the only recollection we have of a TR title track. I asked her about it in today's q&a to see if we'll ever hear it & mentioned it never leaked but lightning never strikes the same place twice I guess

Controversial take but the single version of Nuclear Seasons is so much better than the album cut...

I'm imagining Charli's next album to be a sonic hybrid of a Stay Away-esque sound and a Visions-esque sound.