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i do like handmade heaven, but from what i've observed many people were already bitter about her stage name change, collaboration with clean bandit was rather questionable to say the least, and then handmade heaven was definitely not catchy enough to keep them interested. then superstar (overhated) and orange trees happened, when the album was announced the artwork was so bland it still hurts, later she claimed L+F to be her best album so people grew very big expectations and were disappointed heavily. stop pretending that any please don't call me or holiday would've changed that because we all know it wouldn't, later on she was sooo depressed by the fandom reception that she had nightmares about planes crashing, and, to be honest, listening to this record feels quite uncomfortable after that. and marina is to blame here as well because aside from the music she clearly had no vision for this era. she just doesn't spend that much time on her work as she used to it seems.

no song added would've saved this album, trust me. it was hated by fans nearly from the very beginning

Did they actually meet in 2013? Marina was in a relationship with Burns then and I'm pretty sure I'm a Ruin & Blue are about him.

since this thread "girl needs to get diamonds back" and "L+F is bad" bores me to death, on a positive note I'd like to point that Electra Heart is now Platinum eligible in the US and The Family Jewels is close to Gold, but Marina would need to buy the certificate herself since probably Atlantic cannot do it anymore.

Sorry to break it to y'all but I remember her saying somewhere that it was a lie and there were "obviously" no labels chasing her so Derek Davies who discovered her seems not to have had competition, truth be told her too cool to be indie too wise to be pop persona was very well-played.

Greg, Rick, Luke, Liam and herself

LA - who am I to love you? I'm malnourished by your placebos of love. I guess you could call it a textbook, I was looking for the father I wanted back. I was just a girl that you could not believe because it's harder, I was just a girl and all I really wanted was my father

Writing about your glamorous Hollywood life ain't the thing anyone's gonna relate to, so Marina sis you better take it into consideration, unless you really don't care what you're doing. That new poem is alright, but the structure seems messy and the visuals kinda childish.

and i made myself believe other people wanted to hurt me i took my bitterness and made it sweet i took a broken heart and made it beat hating love + fear is just cliche'd at this point. sure it's nowhere near as excellent as her first three albums but it's got some cute moments

At this point I want it to be released basically

I would love for Lana to release Yes to Heaven officially at last, but I'm scared of the outcome of a potential rework...

Thankfully everyone seems to have forgotten such a thing as About Love exists.

Well then... The Family Jews - Oh No! - Hollywood - Mowgli's Road Electra Hard - Bubblegum Bitch - Power & Control - Sex Yeah / Living Dead VEGGY - Froot - I'm a Ruin - Immortal LUFF + FIERE - Handmade Heaven - End of the Earth - Believe in Love Greek Dreams in a Californian Land - Venus Fly Trap - Man's World - Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land

Tea. Listening to Living Dead is a spiritual experience.

Why do you keep complaining about this and that? And y'all really think that once she comes back to Marina and the diamonds then suddenly her music is gonna change for the better? The truth is she adjusted her sound to her fanbase which now mostly consists of teenage girls and pop-lenient gays and doesn't really seem in expanding it further. FROOT was made mostly to please Electra Heart British haters. We can only see what's gonna happen now that she left Atlantic but I really doubt she goes Kate Bush route again. And if she actually goes rock the way she hinted she wanted I'd enjoy something in the style of If I Can't Have Love I Want Power.

Remember what she fucking looked like when she was in a relationship with the Jack guy?

Yeah does anyone remember her plan to release an album full of outtakes? Does she?

That's not true, Marina was responsible for how Electra came to existence and it was all her idea not the label's. The only thing her label didn't allow her to was to focus (= have their funds) on two different eras at the time. It was Marina who wanted to work with Dr. Luke at the end of the day, it was her wanting to abandon her indie goals and seek fame because that's what she secretly craved and was disappointed with what a failure TFJ had been in the US. Of course, to hide all that, she wanted to create EH the popstar version as a mystery project similar to iamamiwhoami and release Die Life as an official sophomore MATD album; we know how it ended. The only thing she did not touch was the sound production but it's obvious a well known hit-maker hiring whom costs unfathomable amount of money wouldn't let her change anything if she and her team wanted a successful single. Marina does like to minimise her control over Electra Heart project because she felt she *failed* (it was bashed by critics and did not top charts), same way she did with releasing Shampain as a single and then hating the song as well as the exact same way with saying "omg you don't like Love + Fear? oh well I don't know I was insecure I didn't know what to do ummm it was my label's fault" but personally thinking it's her best album anyway Remember that it was Marina who invented homoerotic How to Be a Heartbreaker music video, it was also her who rejected her manager's idea to scrap Teen Idle, it was her who spent months reading Greek mythology and browsing American and Hollywood popculture references, no one in the label was that passionate about it, and so on... When Electra Heart was being finalised, no one in the world knew what Born to Die is, let alone how to capitalise sad tumblr girl image. It was always a mixture of the likes of Britney Spears -- heartbreak, sadness, innocence, Katy Perry -- fun, camp, parody, and Madonna -- hidden messages, philosophy, industry rebellion.

I dunno honestly how people perceive FROOT to be her best work, for me it's more like a "alright i'mma chill now" kinda album, somewhat a laid-back closing chapter.

Except for the fact she actually released way more than one album during her career. Considering Grimes being her own producer, I don't mind a longer break tbh.

Paradise should've been its own album. The fact people forget about those songs is ridiculous.

It's insane how she makes up 95% of the song lyrics on her own and all those white straight men get credit for one word change.

Oh an artist from California who has already posted things related to her and now claims doesn't know her in order to ruin her career, yeah, sure Jan

TFJ deluxe deserved better, so did EH, ugh stanning her is so frustrating sometimes. I wonder what she's up to now...

Does she have rights to the masters though now that she's indie?