On the last Marina and the Diamonds album, 2012’s Electra Heart, the singer affected a pop-star persona that she fully committed to: With a platinum wig and bubble-gum-pink pleated skirts, she Marina & The Diamonds. More images. Real Name: Marina Lambrini Diamandis. Profile: Stage name used by Welsh singer-songwriter Marina Diamandis from 2007 to 2017. Since 2018 Diamandis has performed as Marina (75) Born 10 October 1985 in Abergavenny, Wales to a Greek father and Welsh mother. Show more. When Marina Lambrini Diamandis, better known as pop sensation Marina And The Diamonds, first exploded onto the scene in 2010 with her debut album The Family Jewels, her infectious indie-electro brand of music struck a major chord with listeners. Since gaining Certified Gold status, the album would see the release of ear worm single Hollywood May 25, 2013 - Explore Natalie Diamandis's board "Marina and The Diamonds" on Pinterest. See more ideas about marina and the diamonds, marina, lambrini. Oh, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh! I'm gonna live, I'm gonna fly. I'm gonna fail, I'm gonna die. I'm gonna live, I'm gonna fly. I'm gonna fail, gonna da-da-da-da-die. I know exactly what I want and who I wanna be. I know exactly why I walk and talk like a machine. I'm now becoming my own self-fulfilled prophecy. lirik maula ya sholli wasallim daiman abada arab. Another one recommended to me by a friend. The Family Jewels is a predominantly piano rock album by MARINA, formerly known as Marina & the Diamonds. I haven't heard anything from them prior to hearing this, though I did preview "Oh No!" before listening to the project in full, and boy did that pull me in, but more on that later. The Album opens with "Are You Satisfied?," which sets the tone for the album very well. Many strings and prominent piano, with Marina's unique voice at the forefront. Additionally, this song in particular uses some smoothly distorted electric guitar as well, giving the track some more drive. it isn't my favorite from the album, but works well as an opener. However, things really pick up with "Shampain," where the dark, yet clever lyricism starts to truly become noticeable. Starting off with a darker sounding synth bass (which I absolutely love), it quickly transitions into a happier sounding song. This "happy song, dark lyrics" dynamic makes numerous appearances on this album. In this case, the piano driven instrumental makes for a great backing to her story of drowning out her pain with "Shampain," but only feeling more and more guilty about it afterwards, and this is what keeps this album from feeling derivative and basic. Although the "happy song, dark lyrics" dynamic has been overused to oblivion, the way Mariana does it stays interesting throughout the album. Even on songs where I don't like the instrumental, I cannot find a spot on this album where I can complain about the lyrics. Oh, and of course I have to mention the amazing chorus of this song. Some amazing harmonies there, making for a great second track. The next track, "I Am Not a Robot," is the closest I get really disliking a song on this album. I don't care for the over-the-top singing on this track, especially on the chorus. It is very out of place. The instrumental feels bland, and while the lyrics stay interesting, lyrics can't save a song that's bad instrumentally. I do like the vocoder use on the pre-chorus though. Luckily, "Girls" quickly brings me back into the experience. The piano driven instrumental is really good, and all the details add to the experience, though the accordion feels a bit weird during the bridge. And unlike the last track, the over-the-top vocals on this one feel very fitting on this track. "Mowgli's road," with a name referencing Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, is a solid track, but is brought down by little details like the not-so pleasant bridge. That said, it still keeps the creativity from some of the past tracks. "Obsessions" isn't a song that I have too much to say about. The clavi that appears later in the track is a fitting choice for the song, but other than that it doesn't really bring many new ideas to the table. But it is at this halfway point that things start to become much more consistent. "Hollywood" immediately made me read along with the lyrics. "Hollywood infected your brain, you wanted kissing in the rain" is an infectious chorus, and the instrumental is also really well done. Another highlight from this project. The following song "The Outsider" is another song improved by it's lyrics. The background vocals on the chorus repeating "On my own again" are what make me keep coming back. The theatrical "Hermit the Frog," is a song that reminds me of Faces from Owl Eyes, and EP released the following year (especially the song "1+1"). The chorus also sounds similar to some of the songs on Miike Snow's first two full-length projects, the first of which of which came out the year prior to the release of this album. It just shows how much this album uses the sounds of it's time, but in ways that don't let it sound dated even over a decade later. This song is followed by the most popular on this album, and my personal favorite, the groovy. danceable, piano-driven cut "Oh No!" From the start of this thing, with the abstract percussion pattern and little electronic details, this thing is a consistent pop banger. The piano riff on the verses is very gratifying. The vocals are on point, and this song has some amazing production. Although it is a bit different from some of the other songs on this album, it still fits in perfectly. It also continues the lyrical dynamic I mentioned previously, with lines like, "If I fail I'll fall apart" and "Now real life has no appeal" standing out. The chorus is once again, infectious. This song is a masterpiece, showcasing all of this album's best qualities and adding more ideas into the mix, but still keeping it consistent. The album continues from there with a bit of a weaker track, "Rootless." Though I do appreciate it for it's attention to detail, it doesn't really add much else to the experience. It could've been a B-side if you ask me. This is followed by a well-placed slow burner, "Numb," once again displaying that previously mentioned lyrical dynamic. It also has a sound that Lana Del Rey would go on to use in the years following this release. Finally, this album concludes with the odd closer "Guilty." Unlike a lot of the tracks on this album, the soundscape fits the lyrics, sounding dark and sinister. This might be the only song on here that doesn't feel happy at any point throughout. This makes for an interesting closing track, but the placement was most definitely intentional and well-planned. The Family Jewels is a very creative project both sonically and lyrically. From flat out bops like "Oh No!" to slow burners like "Numb," Marina creates a very unique and well-crafted experience, with a great voice and lyrics to back it up. Edit: This album grew on me with repeated listens. Unlike Be the Cowboy, where I only came back to two or three of the tracks, I came back to many of the songs on this project. To give brief updates on my thoughts on each song, "Are You Satisfied?" grew on me a lot. The lyrics are some of the most hard-hitting on here and the instrumental really sets the tone for the album. I still agree with my previous statement that this song works well as an opener, but I think the reason I didn't care for it that much is because I wasn't ready for this special blend of genres. I finally see why my friend praised this song so much out of them all. "Shampain" has become my new personal favorite from this collection. The distorted synth-bass at the beginning that continues throughout the rest of the track is still amazing. The lyrics are the best on here. Immaculate production, amazing chorus, and so much more make this track one of Marina's best. "I Am Not a Robot" still isn't my favorite on here, but I can appreciate the beautiful moments on here a lot more. Certain details bring the track down, but the lyrics are on point and it adds to the broad range of sounds this album covers. "Girls" is a still a solid track. Not much has changed with my thoughts on this one. "Mowgli's Road" grew on me a little bit. The song is well crafted. The clavi on this song is a welcome addition too. The bridge with those weird vocals still doesn't sit right with me, but the rest of the song is really good. "Obsessions" starts off a bit boring, but grows into a more complete piece. Not much else for this one either. My original thoughts mostly still apply. "Hollywood" is as much of a 2010's pop banger as it was when I first heard it. Hosting even more clever lyricism, this song, as I said in my first review, is truly "infectious." "The Outside" remains a highlight. Is it because of the background vocals singing "On my own again" during the chorus? Maybe, but it doesn't mean you should write the rest of the song off. The build-ups to each chorus make each chorus all the more satisfying. "Hermit the Frog" displays the theatrical elements present throughout this project most prominently, but as I'll touch on more in my final thoughts, those influences really add to the track. The many different harmonies on the last chorus is one of the most beautiful parts of a song I've heard. Plus, it showcases Marina's knack for good chord progressions, which appear countless times on this project. This one heavily grew on me. Very inventive. My thoughts on "Oh No!" remain the same. Great track. "Rootless" features some nice subtle orchestral swells during the verses. It has a very elegant sound, and although it isn't one of my favorites, it doesn't take much away from the experience as a whole. "Numb" seems to be a least favorite for many listeners, but I find it to be a gorgeous ballad. The chorus is beautiful as usual. This song takes the elegant sound of the previous track to the next level. And finally, "Guilty" remains a great closer to the project. So what are my final thoughts? The Family Jewels is one of the better pop albums of the 2010's. it offers some of the best pop songs of the decade, covering a diverse range of sounds. I could listen to almost any of these songs on repeat or just listen to the whole project, and that's one of the best qualities of an album. It's even a quality you'll find in my favorite album of all time, The Bones of What You Believe. Additionally, I have to give props to Marina for utilizing theatrical elements in a way that brings more life to the songs. Usually, these elements only make a song overly dramatic and annoying, but the way they're cleverly implemented here makes for a more fulfilling experience. Those elements, combined with the pop sounds of the early 2010's with a piano rock twist, and of course Marina's signature sarcastic vocal delivery, make for a very satisfying experienced. It's a shame that she never quite built this sound up into something even greater with her next releases. So yes, Marina. With this project, I am very satisfied. BONUS: "The Family Jewels," which is the title track for this album, ended up being a bonus track only found on the deluxe edition. This cut is creative in its own unique ways though, so I encourage those that listen to this album to make sure they hear this song along with it. It should've made is onto the final cut, as it would've added some cool new 14 January 2022 Track Ratings: 1. Are You Satisfied?: 6/10 2. Shampain: 9/10 3. I Am Not a Robot: 3/10 4. Girls: 8/10 5. Mowgli's Road: 7/10 6. Obsessions: 6/10 7. Hollywood: 8/10 8. The Outsider: 8/10 9. Hermit the Frog: 8/10 10. Oh No!: 9/10 11. Rootless: 5/10 12. Numb: 7/10 13. Guilty: 8/10 Favorite Track: Oh No! Least Favorite Track: I Am Not a Robot Overall Rating: NEW: 7 February 2022 Track Ratings: 1. Are You Satisfied?: 8/10 2. Shampain: 10/10 3. I Am Not a Robot: 6/10 4. Girls: 8/10 5. Mowgli's Road: 8/10 6. Obsessions: 7/10 7. Hollywood: 8/10 8. The Outsider: 8/10 9. Hermit the Frog: 10/10 10. Oh No!: 9/10 11. Rootless: 5/10 12. Numb: 7/10 13. Guilty: 8/10 Favorite Track: Shampain Least Favorite Track: Rootless Overall Rating: Press J to jump to the feed. 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Take your pick from the list in the box below, click GO! and search through the artists on each genre page... ABOUT MARINA:Marina Lambrini Diamandis is a singer-songwriter known professionally as Marina And The Diamonds, was born October 10th 1985 (age 30).She was born in Brynmawr, Blaenau Gwent, Wales. She moved to London as a teenager to become a professional singer, despite having little formal musical has described herself as an "indie artist with pop goals" and often analyses components of human behavior in her music. She is additionally recognised for her retro, surreal and cartoonish fashion styles, and has been described as an artist with a cult following, and a gay her childhood, she attended Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls, reflecting that "I sort of found my talent there... I was the one who always skived off choir, but I had an incredible music teacher who managed to convince me I could do anything."At the age of 16, she moved to Greece with her father "to connect with my heritage and learn to speak the language" and sang Greek folk songs with her grandmother. Having earned an International Baccalaureate at St. Catherine's British Embassy School in Athens, she returned to Wales two years later. She and her mother then moved to Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. "Obsessed with becoming a singer, almost as if it was a disease.", she worked for two months at a petrol station im order to earn money to move to not having a musical background, Diamandis was able to create lyrics due to her childhood love of writing. She first began writing music when she was 18 years old; she moved to London to attend dance school but quit two months 2005, she created the stage name "Marina and the Diamonds"; after coming to prominence, "the Diamonds" was established as a reference to her fans, instead of her backing by the example of Daniel Johnston, Diamandis decided to compose her own music and stop going to auditions; she taught herself how to play the piano and recorded music on a keyboard. She self-composed and produced her earlier demos with GarageBand, and independently released her debut extended play Mermaid vs. Sailor through Myspace in FAMILY JEWELS:Diamandis's debut studio album The Family Jewels was released on 15th February 2010; it debuted at number five on the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of copies, and was eventually certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry. Atlantic Records signed Diamandis to Chop Shop Records in the United States in March 2010. Through the label, she released her third play The American Jewels EP on March 23rd, and layer released The Family Jewels in the Unitedly States on May 25th. The latter project debuted at number 138 on the US Billboard 200 with first-week sales of copies. On Billboard's Top Heatseekers and Top Rock Albums charts, it peaked at numbers 2 and 49 HEART:The final product Electra Heart is a concept album lyrically united by the ideas of "female identity" and "a recent breakup". Diamandis created the titular character "Electra Heart" as a protagonist for the project was released on April 27th 2012, and debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales if copies. It became Diamandis's first chart-topping album in the United Kingdom, although at the time it was additionally distinguished as the lowest-selling number-one record of the 21st century in the country. The album was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry for exceeding shipments of units, and gold by the Irish Recorded Music Association for surpassing spending one month in New York City, Diamandis announced in February 2013 that she had begun writing material for an upcoming third studio album. The single "Froot" was released on October 10th, her 29th birthday, and announced as the title album was announced to be released on April 3rd 2015 with a new track from the album being announced each month. However, due to an Internet leak, the release was brought forward. Entirely produced by Diamandis and David Kosten, the album was praised for its cohesive sound. Froot debuted at number 8 on the Billboard 200 chart, and is currently her highest charting album in the United States. It also peaked at 10, 6 and 4 in the UK, Canada and Ireland SONGS:Teen IdleOh no!PrimadonnaI Am Not A RobotI'm A RuinLiesNumbFrootMowgli's RoadBubblegum BitchBuy The StarsObsessionsStarring RoleHomewreckerHappyHollywoodImmortalFUN FACTS:1. Marina has synesthesia, where one sensation triggers another usually very different sensation (like tasting colors).In her 2009 blog, she writes that she "experiencedmusic solely through colour, texture and also associates names, people and days of the week with different colors. For example, she sees Monday as red and Tuesday as her blog she writes, "[I] also smell scents that I absolutely know do not exist in the room at that time but not sure if that relates [synesthesia] or something very different."2. For most of 2012, Marina wore a going to a hairdresser to dye her hair platinum blonde, a large portion of her hair broke off."She was blowdrying my hair and said, 'You've got a bit of breakage at the back'. I looked around and a lot has just snapped off at two inches. A week later I had it all cut really short." — via she purchased a wig, painted the roots black to make it look realistic, amd tied it up with a ribbon to create Electra Heart's signature In Marina's sophomore album, Electra Heart, she wanted to tell a story using a ficitional character as well as create a dark bubble gum pop video "Fear and Loathing" where Marina chops off her long brown locks marks the beginning of her transformation and journey as Electra Heart, the alter ego."Electra Heart is the antithesis of everything that I stand for," Marina said. "And the point of introducing her and building a whole concept around her is that she stands for the corrupt side of American ideology, and basically that's the corruption of yourself. My worst fear - that's anyone's worst fear - is losing myself and becoming a vacuous person. And that happens a lot when you're very ambitious." — via her journey as Electra Heart, Marina goes blonde; destroys a couch with a chainsaw; hangs her lover upside down and throws water on him; and performs in a male shower, before finally killing herself as Electra Heart in the appropriately named music video: "Electra Heart." She does so by wiping the heart off her cheek, becoming Marina While she wrote most if the songs on her debut, The Family Jewels, in Electra Heart she had a a 2015 interview, Marina describes her experience writing Electra Heart as an intense and fascinating In her new album, Froot, Marina wanted to move away from the stereotypical pop star image."So when I was promoting [Electra Heart] I realized, OK, this is why I don't like being a pop star because people assume you don't know anything and you don't make your own music," Marina said. "I saw that change as soon as I dyed my hair blond and created music that had a different production style. It was fascinating but it made me think: 'I'm not going to do this again.'" — Marina's trip to Las Vegas inspired the aesthetic behind Electra was surrounded by vintage clothing stores, filled with bubble gum pvc dresses, which she then bought and formed a Marina started four different courses at four different universities - dance, vocal tech, music & culture and music composition - but did not complete quitting both dance and vocal tech school, Marina studied music and culture at the University of East London, completed a year, and got a first (highest mark) before transferring to a musical composition course at Middlesex University, which she left after 3 months."I didn't want to be in university," she said. "I wanted to be in the business learning everything first hand. But at the same time I wasn't good enough in the beginning so I had to do something with my life." — via Her song "Girls" was inspired by her journey to find a suitable record passed on 14 different labels before signing with Atlantic Records because most of them were trying to impose an image for her. Marina said that she often cringes when she looks back on her song "Girls", which has the lyrics "girls they never befriend me / cause I fall asleep when they speak."◊ Marina and the Diamonds - Girls (Lyrics) ◊9. Marina got her first job as a froot picker at got fired after three days in because she went to the part of the field where the fruit was the largest and it was easier to fill her music is amazing and she is a really nice person. She is really hard-working and she didn't stop until she reached her goals and she's a big role model to me. She deserves all te recognition she has and much more. I aspire to be like her. 7 października 2012, 01:30 Marina And The Diamonds zagra pełen biletowany koncert, podczas którego wykona utwory ze swoich dwóch dotychczasowych płyt – "Family Jewels" i "Electra Heart" / Warner Music Poland Marina And The Diamonds wystąpiła przed koncertem Coldplay na Stadionie Narodowym we wrześniu i znów odwiedzi Polskę. 30 stycznia przyszłego roku wokalistka zaśpiewa w warszawskiej Stodole. Jej energia i urok w połączeniu ze specyficznym poczuciem humoru i oczywiście przebojową muzyką zapowiadają moc wrażeń... 1 Koncert Mariny And The Diamonds zapowiada się jako jedno z ciekawszych wydarzeń koncertowych początku 2013 roku. W końcu ci, którzy mieli możliwość zobaczenia artystki w akcji podczas jej krótkiego występu przed koncertem grupy Coldplay, bawili się znakomicie przy jej piosenkach Warner Music Poland 2 Marina Lambrini Diamandis, ukrywająca się pod pseudonimem Marina And The Diamonds, zadebiutowała w lutym 2010 r. albumem "Family Jewels". Płyta wylansowała dwa spore przeboje – "Hollywood" i "I Am Not A Robot". Estetyka utworów wokalistki oraz sposób interpretacji przyniósł jej porównania do takich artystek, jak Regina Spektor czy Shakira. Sama zainteresowana wśród swoich inspiracji wymienia Madonnę, Britney Spears, Garbage i Kate Bush Warner Music Poland 3 Drugi album wokalistki zatytułowany "Electra Heart" przyniósł zmianę repertuaru – pojawiły się akcenty typowo klubowe oraz więcej brzmień syntetycznych. Płytę zapowiadały single "Radioactive" oraz "Fear And Loathing", które zdobyły uznanie krytyków i słuchaczy Warner Music Poland 4 Najnowszy singiel Mariny And The Diamonds "How To Be A Heartbreaker" ukazał się w atmosferze sensacji – wytwórnia płytowa próbowała zablokować premierę teledysku do piosenki twierdząc, że gwiazda wygląda w nim zbyt niekorzystnie Warner Music Poland 5 10 października Marina będzie świętowała 27 urodziny Warner Music Poland Zobacz więcej Przejdź do strony głównej

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