Why isn't she huge on ILX?
― Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 09:36 (nine years ago) link
froot got 4 votes for the eoy poll :(my #4 - still obsessed with it
― nxd, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 09:49 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, my #10. My question is, why the indifference?
― Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 09:54 (nine years ago) link
she's a bit of a corny songwriter imo. newest song sounds ok though - the handclaps help
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 11:51 (nine years ago) link
This is the first song of hers in a long while that reminds me why I originally liked her to begin with.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 14:16 (nine years ago) link
yeah "im a ruin" is really good. I loved the first album but I thought "Primadonna" was a pretty weak single and lost interest tbh.
― Stig of the sanctimonious uncontextualized linkdump (Michael B), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:14 (nine years ago) link
Second album is really great imo, give it a try
― Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:18 (nine years ago) link
"Froot" was #106 in the tracks poll & just missed my ballot. would have done better if it came out earlier imo
― gr8080, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link
Immortal is gorgeous, love the slightly on the nose lyrics. Also she has got to be p much the most beautiful woman on the planet.
― ewar woowar (or something), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:06 (nine years ago) link
been listening to "i'm a ruin" on repeat, love the kate bushy heyaheysvideo came out today too, giving me madonna-frozen vibes
― nxd, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 14:33 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDVC_pFMBMM
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 14:40 (nine years ago) link
I love this song so much.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 14:41 (nine years ago) link
it sounds like something off Electra Heart
― kinder, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:18 (nine years ago) link
Nah, if anything it sounds like it would fit on The Family Jewels, but it's also kind of a new (okay, maybe not new, but more refined) look on her. Hope there's more of this on Froot.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:48 (nine years ago) link
i think because it has a similar line to one in 'power and control'
― kinder, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 17:13 (nine years ago) link
i think this might be the best song she's ever made
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 20:51 (nine years ago) link
boring video tho
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 20:54 (nine years ago) link
I'll always be a sucker for billowy clothes blowing in desert wind.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link
These lines kill me dead
And I've tried to sayBabe, I'm gonna ruin you if you let me stayYou still mean everything to me
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 05:38 (nine years ago) link
The song seems to be doing really well on US iTunes which is kind of weird
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 05:40 (nine years ago) link
I wonder where it's getting coverage. Not on any of the sites I read. And I can't imagine it's on radio playlists.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 05:44 (nine years ago) link
I wondered if it was on a Superbowl ad or something. She's got a large tumblr fanbase but I'd no idea it was this large.
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 05:51 (nine years ago) link
she's a big hit on our local bowling alley music channels
― nxd, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 09:23 (nine years ago) link
Album apparently leaked a few days ago. I've been asleep at the wheel!
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 20 February 2015 06:23 (nine years ago) link
I didn't really have much interest in a new Marina album at the beginning of the year but after hearing I'm a Ruin I had to give it a go. The album is surprisingly great. It seems a little front loaded but I'm hoping the second half grows on me in time.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 15:58 (nine years ago) link
Apart from a few clumsy lyrics in "Can't Pin Me Down," I think it might be her strongest lp from beginning to end.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 16:05 (nine years ago) link
Easily my favourite so far. I didn't rate the second album at all.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 16:11 (nine years ago) link
I'm not feeling these new ones much yet. They mostly sound the same to me.
― kinder, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 16:53 (nine years ago) link
oh this gets really good in the second half
― Thendara Satisfaction (imago), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 09:57 (nine years ago) link
or maybe I was mostly thinking of the songs 'Gold' and 'Better Than That'
― Thendara Satisfaction (imago), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 10:15 (nine years ago) link
She's written the melody in 'Forget' at least twice before though (it feels)
― Thendara Satisfaction (imago), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 10:16 (nine years ago) link
the album is kinda boring to me but i still love "i'm a ruin"
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 10:49 (nine years ago) link
Wonder if it's her formula that Track 9 on every album is more or less the best & darkest track, Track 2 the monster pop single and Track 12 the big sad late-album epic
― Thendara Satisfaction (imago), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 10:52 (nine years ago) link
awesomely consistent album imoout of the tracks i hadn't heard already, really enjoying 'gold' and 'blue' 'froot' into 'i'm a ruin' is just such a strong run
― nxd, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 11:03 (nine years ago) link
A lot of people have pointed out the Teen Idle/Forget link:https://soundcloud.com/leakedpop2/marina-the-diamonds-forget-teen-idle
I guess I'm disappointed with this album overall. I was one of the excited nerds who pre-ordered for my froot of the month (I will commend her on this strategy, if she'd just put up a stream I probably wouldn't have bought the thing) and after getting my hopes raised real, real, high with "Happy" and "Froot" what finally arrived was an AOR break-up record with characteristically drab videos, not mad Nintendo futurepop and gospel vibe ballads. It's probably her most consistent album but I don't see myself returning to it like I do her debut and some tracks of Electra Heart.
Also, how do people like "Gold". Did you guys also like "Florida Kilos" or what
― Leonard Pine, Thursday, 19 March 2015 06:00 (nine years ago) link
late to the show, but really digging this. the front-end is super strong.
froot - i know i'm probably not the first to say, but getting mad kate bush vibes on thisi'm a ruin - i'll be damned if that isn't one of the best choruses / toplines i've heard all year, and it doesn't even need lyrics. just the yeayyeahs uh-huh. so goodblue - catchy as heck. hot damn when the chorus comes in that 2nd time. so delicious with the 'GIMMEs'
― mingalaba, Monday, 27 July 2015 13:50 (eight years ago) link
actually got kate bush vibes from i'm a ruin! but yeh i agree, this album is super good
― nxd, Monday, 27 July 2015 13:53 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I'm still playing this a lot. Brilliant album.
Blue and I'm a Ruin should have both been huge hits by now.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 27 July 2015 20:33 (eight years ago) link
very late to the show.
really like the drums on this album - esp on Forget but also on other tracks.
― Sharkie, Saturday, 28 May 2016 16:16 (seven years ago) link
ONE OF US
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 28 May 2016 16:23 (seven years ago) link
new song just released with clean bandit, way to conflict an imago.
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Friday, 23 June 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
she's dead to me
― imago, Friday, 23 June 2017 21:57 (six years ago) link
This isn't terrible.
Also, Róisín Murphy did a lot of dayplayer work like this before coming back with some super strong work of her own, so we'll see.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 23 June 2017 22:32 (six years ago) link
she's dating one of clean bandit iirc
― monotony, Friday, 23 June 2017 22:40 (six years ago) link
and yeah I think this song is kinda old also? Like wasn't it being performed live ~2 years ago?
― monotony, Friday, 23 June 2017 22:41 (six years ago) link
She's officially dropped "And The Diamonds" from the name, and I'm feeling a type of way.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 14 December 2018 23:30 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTez3e69Srk
It's a nice song. Is it a nice Marina song? I'm unsure yet. It has no edges.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 8 February 2019 05:16 (five years ago) link
I enjoyed the verses more than the chorus which seems a bit uneventful. It is beautifully produced. Could well grow on me like most of the last album did.
― kitchen person, Friday, 8 February 2019 05:39 (five years ago) link
This is great! But she sings the title too much. That's the only flaw
― imago, Friday, 8 February 2019 07:14 (five years ago) link
haha I tend to hate that in songs
― kinder, Friday, 8 February 2019 09:26 (five years ago) link