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I'm 99% certain Starring Role was meant for Die Life, and even if some songs were made after EH idea was conceived, it does not make them necessarily Electra Heartish, see Bump in the Night which even includes her own name. I wonder how demo of Hypocrates might have sounded, I would love to hear Die Life version of it, which even if does not exist, would make sense seeing it is about her father (I do know that one can interpret it as about a romantic partner, but Marina knew exactly what she was doing with the title).

It still would have been wise to release Die Life EP and then Electra Heart album even with some Die Life songs. Die Life was about Marina, Electra Heart was about the society that Marina was a part of, after all.

Doubt Your Love is such a nice surprise. I like the melody.

I love your botox bitch I curtsey for youuuuu

To be honest, I would not be surprised if she minimised her interest in Kate Bush back then just to prove her uniqueness with The Family Jewels, we know how salty Marina used to be at the time. Like, c'mon, you release tracks like Obsessions, Rootless and Mowgli's Road and then you say your biggest inspiration is Britney Spears and Madonna? Also Guilty screams Fiona Apple's Criminal.

It is, and it is not single material. Feels just like a random track from the aforesaid album, which is simultaneously good and bad. Besides, I expected more Night Time My Time (song) vibes on Masochism that she seemed to promise all those years before. At least she's releasing something lol.

Feels like NTMT filler, seriously.

I did actually joke with my friend about her adding Maoam to M6 I really wonder what she has in store...

There's no such a thing as flawfree album. Some people may love it from start to finish, some may not even like a single track on it. I just imagined a dimension where these two's strongest tracks are combined into one, that's it; ESPECIALLY because in my opinion they share a lot both sonically and aesthestically, and I've already seen many people say Unravel fits Vespertine. I did not mean that some tracks are actually "bad".

Some tracks on both are weaker to me simply.

It's so boring oh God. Surely it is a grower, but rather meh. Even I Never Learn had some commercial-potential bops like Gunshot. Why not include BRON?

Dunno if this is a popular opinion or not, but if she merged the projects of Homogenic and Vespertine, it would probably be my favourite album ever.

Why would she join Bandcamp? She's got enough money basically to buy her own label and even promote other artists there. It's not that big of a deal. I'm just scared to see the outcome of that, whether her projects will be more or less professional. She's always been "the laziest ambitious person" and stuff.

I don't get it how they constantly have so few items in her stock and can't make more

Songs about her father still make sense to the concept. It is Electra complex after all.

the music video version is much nicer, these dubstep beats are very cheap. to me, this and lies are the songs that aged too much

Agreed. My point was that it got critical acclaim, with what you said now -- even despite little concept to it. But it's not only about it; Charli did change her sound to appeal general public, and people hated Marina for doing the same thing a decade earlier.

It would be nice to finally get a thorough album review that would do justice to our beloved Electra Heart. I kinda feel like everyone misses the whole social commentary, the cultural inspirations, and the Greek mythology references. Everyone seems to focus merely on its impact on teenage girls and Tumblr now (still better than the 2012 omg-she-changed-her-sound-and-it's-atrocious rhethoric), while the amount of thought taken to developing this concept album is insane. This record does already feel like reading a book and I still cannot comprehend why Marina's so reluctant to prove her point; I know she was devastated after commercial failure and critics' flashback, but she should've seen them coming. The Metacritic score is a crime on humanity and proves that patriarchic society we live in was not ready for that and seems not to be to this very day. I have no words for the people who praised Charli XCX's Crash but hated Marina for her sellout persona invented a decade earlier. Hypocrates.

yes, and then she wanted to release a full package of all electra heart songs and she had an opportunity for that today and did not, let alone heartcore reading anything from her would be interesting, though. her marinabook was not my cup of tea but I can feel her writing something for the wider audience when she's older for sure.

THIS

Why there's Sex Yeah twice?

ik : ( a delusional girl can dream right....... but EH is the only album of hers that's perhaps gonna get an anniversary edition so it is our last chance tbh

if she were not to release those unreleased tracks she could've at least added all acoustics and some interludes from lonely hearts club tour. p&c interlude is hella good

the cover is a mess, the title is a mess, the tracklist -- we'll see lol RIP are they not allowed to use Balslev's photoshoot or what...

They'll never top kin.