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
charming little track
― nxd, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 11:11 (five years ago) link
The album is called Love & Fear and it's split into two 8-song halves. Fair enough. A sixteen song album will undoubtedly be too much album, especially when one of the tracks on "Love" is that fucking Clean Bandit song which is literal padding.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 15 February 2019 05:25 (five years ago) link
lol I didn't even bother reviving the thread for this last song, but here's the next one. Every one is lamer than the last.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYKaBHbTuvQ
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 22 March 2019 04:11 (five years ago) link
I was really looking forward to this album after how much I loved Froot but these songs aren't really doing it for me at all. She sounds so bored.
― kitchen person, Friday, 22 March 2019 04:36 (five years ago) link
iirc she went to university after the Froot tour ended and now she's in her mature period, but it really sounds like she's just attempting to get on the radio.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 22 March 2019 04:46 (five years ago) link
So, she just released the first half of the album (Love) a few weeks early. It's really not very good at all. So sad to hear her phoning it in over these generic songs.
― kitchen person, Friday, 5 April 2019 03:00 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I can't even be bothered to listen to it based on what I've heard so far. If someone discovers a really good song, let me know.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 5 April 2019 04:10 (five years ago) link
Now Fear is out as well, I really can't remember the last time an artist lost just about everything that made them interesting in such a drastic way. I mean, that CHVRCHES album last year was a big step down from the previous one, but I never liked them as much as I liked Marina during the Froot era. That was such a strong album full of her character and great distinctive songwriting. Love & Fear has none of that. Just an endless run of bland trend-chasing mid tempo Spotify pop. Some really shocking lyrics too. She has absolutely nothing to say. So depressing that she's been talking about how this album is supposed to be close to the real her. In that way it's her Britney Jean!
― kitchen person, Friday, 26 April 2019 05:28 (five years ago) link