brandon

Love and fear wasn’t bad it was just a boring concept and some of the songs were too commercial sounding and watered down.  I really don’t like clean bandit either,  I feel like she’s made a move to be more commercial and it’s backfired and alienated some of her core fanbase.  She really just needs to accept she isn’t going to be a a big artist like Billie Elish or Dua Lipa.  Sometimes less success means longevity, staying genuine and focused on the art should always be the number one priority.  Björk is a perfect example of this and she is highly respected. 

Love + Fear happened 

Thinking about diamond garden today

feel like pure shit just want her back
 

Would be super sexy to hear Die Life.

ignoring what??? lettuce and fries?? i dont understand.. 

Miss Y final version in HQ please and thank you

Can someone leak something interesting... We're bored 

Marina and the Diamonds literally hasn't released an album in 5 years

(and The Diamonds) still sends

This is wrong. 

Can't believe Marina hasn't released an album in five years.

I've always hated the whole thing of there only being 2 emotions, love and fear, cause literally there aren't, it's so dumb,, emotions are way more complex than that not everything u feel is either love or fear like huh?? Anyways, I've always liked this album and still like it, but now over a year later I never really listen to it from front to back. The production sounds kinda dated and bland and a lot of the lyrics are corny. HOWEVER, End of the Earth, Handmade Heaven, Believe in Love and Emotional Machine are amazing songs that I still listen to a lot. I also sometimes listen to Orange Trees cause it's just a cute summery bop but other than that none of the other songs have managed to age well for me. I still like most of them but I don't go out of my way to listen to them.

Marina is so talented that we have to put a lot of pressure on her. I was disappointed with L + F, except the acoustic clip versions and Handmade Heaven. With Baby, I thought his heyday had finally arrived (the clip has several hundred million views, and continues to air on TV), and then not much happened.
She deserves so much more recognition from the mainstream, and I can understand how frustrating it is for someone as creative as she is to be left out when the whole top 50 is filled with shit, and that in addition she gets attacked hard when others release very bad albums and are praised by their non-talent. Actually, she should be as famous as Lana (if you take the alt singers).
I think we shouldn't blame her so loudly, even though L + F was disappointing because we all expected an album with a strong character and a strong musical identity like its previous ones, let's encourage it for its next opus. It can surprise us.
Like you, I hope for something a little crazy, like in her "and The Diamonds" period, but I think she doesn't want that anymore, she doesn't want to be an extravagant artist anymore ( judge the simple and basic name of Marina, the look, the more serious side and her age). I hope she won't lose all the magic and perfection that made her reputation that said, she can surprise us and take us far with little.

I honestly feel like L+F was her Lust for Life; some songs are bops but the overall project feels... less authentic than her previous? I was shocked when she stated in an interview <I didn't really have a concept for this album. I was just writing music. Then I realized some songs represented "love" and others "fear", giving me the idea to make a double record.> ...Like why waiting 4 years and taking a 6 month psychology class to 'find yourself', when at the end you came up with a very basic concept in a few days
Still don't think this is a bad album, but definitely didn't top my favorite which is FROOT.
I remember being SO hyped for her comeback when she dropped Handmade Heaven, I wish she had kept the original concept it looked perfect

I totally get wanting to move away from the "Marina and the Diamonds" moniker considering it makes her sound like a band and definitely was something she thought up when she was really young and moody, but how do you have such an amazing last name like "Diamandis" and you go only by your first name?? Makes no sense to me aesthetically, but also from the record label's standpoint I don't know why they didn't urge her to go with that due to the other artists named "Marina". It would also give more recognition to people who don't follow enough to know that MATD is now Marina. And plus, she always seems so proud of her Greek culture, and using her surname of Diamonds in Greek would have been perfectly on brand for her.

Yeah the title got changed and so was the art direction, so I assume the final concept was quickly thrown together.
To me the album trailer, unused cover for Handmade Heaven and Superstar single cover hint at a colorful mix of organic and futuristic -- modern love. Half of the problem sits in the presentation and poor execution of the loose psychology concept, and I believe her uncertainty about the material itself (I think Eclipse said she dumped some 2017 tracks that were intended for the album) led to things being overworked. 
I do hope she is more confident in herself in the next album because every artist has a misfire in their discography and I'd like to see if she at least recognizes she can create something better without pandering to people stuck in 2012

I agree, people still treat EH as her best album. Most fans want a EH 2.0, that's why some people dislike anything post EH. In my opinion, M5 is her last and only chance. If her next album ends up being worse than L+F (which I doubt it could be possible ), people are gonna keep hating on her and the L+F debate is gonna get even more aggressive. She already lost many fans, all that's left is hope that M5 is as good as FROOT at least.  

Her most vulnerable moment

waterfall has to go next to queen lizzy. it’s the law

I used to put pop the balloons and boys but tbh the album is so cohesively messy that once you start adding too many songs it just doesn’t feel like an album anymore

probably on top of the XCX world skyscraper

Imagine doing DMT and listening to XCX World like where tf would you even end up 

I Wanna Be With You..

You can't call yourself a real Charli stan if you haven't spent 2 hours listening to every single version of the XCX World tracks you've downloaded to find the most final ones to put on your XCX World album so that you can finally get rid of 24 versions of Bounce (FINAL VERSION flu vocals feat Kyary)