AtomicMess

He collects the pop girls like infinity stones.

I've always associated trip-hop with Sneaker Pimps TBH. Her doing that style would make me happy, but I feel like what we got with True Romance and the early mixtapes was sort of the natural sonic/genre evolution of 90s Trip Hop, so. I'd love for her to do a take on rock again. I know she wanted a punk rock album and it got popified into Sucker instead - I'd love it if she'd get the chance to take another swing at it, personally.

Sorry to @ you sis but this evolution of tone over a week has me in stitches. As far as the album goes.... "Welcome to my world, Princess of Power" ~ ~ ~ "Welcome to the life of Electra Heart" Loved that parallel there. 1. POP is cute. Lighthearted intro track. 2. Butterfly - instrumental and the ~emotional flow of the song is 10/10. Then I pay attention to the lyrics, and I want to take a valium and pass out forget about it. 3. Cuntissimo - doesn't take itself seriously, upbeat, fun, camp but not cringe. No notes. 4. Rollercoaster - I don't connect with this one. Instrumental feels like a weird Sky Ferreira pre NTMT reject. (Don't ask me to elaborate) 5 -7 - failed to make an impression on me. Have to give another listen or two. 8. Digital Fantasy - there's something here. I've gotta give it a few more listens. The "tropical pop" ish instrumental is taking me somewhere. 9/10 - failed to make an impression. Have to give another listen or two. 11. I <3 you - it's stupid. I like it, but it's stupid. (Welcome to the golden age, everything is peachy now. IS THERE SOMETHING YOU LIKE? LA-LA-LA-LA LIKEE????) 12. Adult Girl - production sounds like a leaked demo. 13. Final Boss - fell on the "cringe" side of the camp fence for me, sadly. Not a terrible album, not an amazing album. Definitely a good step forward though.

Y'all with memories know my....opinions...on Benny. Therefore, Charli was the highlight of that movie. Carried it on her back. Let's not hold it against her she did EXCELLENT given.... *gestures at everything else with a painful smile*

I'm with you on Cupid - sonically it's a bop but lyrically it misses the mark for me. Cuntissimo is just right for me. THIS is more of what I think Marina does so well at when she walks the line right. It's campy, but not so much that it's cringe, but it's also produced/sung with some seriousness/conviction, but not so much that it's taking itself overly serious. Butterfly is okay. Now POP.....

Weird double post oops ignore this

These three are the ones in my rotation.

I can see that angle, I suppose.

Not that I want to jump into the fray on this one but....her insta story and that caption alone really didn't read satire to me either.

Genuinely manifesting this to be a 2nd wave for her career. The tides came in with TFH, it crashed (in a good way) with EH and Froot, and now we've all been on the beach waiting for the second wave to hit. Here's hoping this is it. Regardless of feelings on recent releases or the past few albums, I think we should all be able to agree that just because something isn't to our taste, the artist shouldn't hop in a barrel and go over Niagara Falls. Dissent and discourse all you want, at the end of the day, bitches still be talking and press is press baby

oh are we cancelling Von Dutch now?

IIRC black tank top, black leather pants, boots, hoodie, backwards cap because I wasn't fucking with my hair.

Should I post scandalous photos of me around my house holding my N1A vinyl and drinking wine to stir up the locals?

As long as still breathes air, Marina has her cringey moments forgiven. Shade aside, I think it's just the fact that TFJ/EH/Froot were so well done that it's hard to consistently top them, let alone match it. They had their silly/camp moments as well, but I think those moments were done juuust right such to walk the line between camp and cringe perfectly, whereas the newer material has struggled where a camp moment was delivered too seriously, thus coming off cringe, or something serious was delivered a little too campy, feeling flat and empty. I think the frustration from people overall comes from an inability to recognize that artists (and art in general) is really hard to do on a level where it's a solid 10/10 every. single. time. Art takes vulnerability to make. Art means taking risks to make. It means sometimes approaching things very serious and methodical and measured, and at other times it means throwing caution to the wind, banging something out in one shot, and going "that's a wrap!" Sometimes you deliver a winner. Sometimes you deliver a dud. Sometimes art can withstand the test of time, other times art is a product of its time. I need to take my own advice on this one sometimes, but people just need to chill. The last 10-15 years of online culture and pervasive media consumption has turned us all into demanding little culture gremlins, expecting every piece of media to conform to exactly our standards and wishes lest the people producing it be cast into the Twitter hate-hole. Newsflash, the world doesn't exist to satisfy your whims and your whims alone. (It's also a FUCKLOAD easier to move through life when you DON'T make artists a core pillar of your personality and have to go through 5 years of CBT and ketamine therapy to "break out" of a fandom you've made existing in your sole reason for getting out of bed, but that's just me....)