Album Rating: 3.0

A pop album with commercial ambitions. Never saw that one coming.

Album Rating: 3.5

You know what I mean Grouchtributer.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

She had commercial ambitions with her first album too but it didn't really sound like it at all



Same with that other inspiring indie pop princess Ellie Goulding

Album Rating: 3.5

Exactly... I guess the key word is "obvious".

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Well as I said in my review it's mainly her ambitions that are holding her back here



Especially songs like Primadonna just sound a little too ... 'radio-friendly'. Something tells me she dumbed down her sound with all the electro crap just to make EH a commercial success and that's such a shame. Especially when you look how lukewarm the album's overall critical reception was :/

Album Rating: 3.5

I'd agree with all that, although don't really see the significance of the critical reception to a large extent.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

The way I see it, popularity isn't just about album sales, it's about the general 'view' that the

public gets



mainstream music listeners get most of their music from the radio but there's also a big group of

people that listen to music based on what they find on the internet, reading reviews, etc...



Think Metallica's Black Album, not only did they score a massive hit with 'Nothing Else Matters',

they also got showered with praise (5 and 4.5 star reviews everywhere) and even a grammy for best

metal album. I'm just saying that album/singles sales aren't always the thing an artist needs most.



PS: The Black Album has sold 30 million copies worldwide

Album Rating: 3.5

Well put. I think we can both agree that Marina is metal.

Album Rating: 3.0

Ugh no, she's carbon. Which means she is nonmetal.

Album Rating: 3.0

I actually adore Primadonna. I hope to hear it on the radio sometime.

Album Rating: 3.5

This album is kind of a naughty pleasure for me.

I like that she's taking pop music such as Katy Perry and giving the lyrical themes substance with the stabs at her peers. It's pretty good but I feel like it's not a concept worth doing any more because it's genuinely uninteresting. The artists and people I feel she criticises are already criticised enough for her words to be just another agreement rather then a statement.

Musically I didn't love it either. It's not my kind of pop. I'd prefer if the production was stripped back a little and if it had emphasised the trickle of strings and piano that came in; I'd have liked it more but then the albums concept wouldn't be as strong.

I certainly prefer her to her peers and I think in future releases; I might like her more but there are too many conflicting contradictions going on and too high on a rather dull concept for me to get into it. =/

It's catchy for all the right reasons though but I don't see myself going back to it.

yea suck

Yeah, basically. =( So far... I think there's potential.

No? Okay.
At least it's not Katy Perry though, right mr. Riff?

Yeah she's on the radio mr. Riff.

Somebody today told me Marina and the Diamonds are the best modern artists of the new millennium.

Haha, touché. I agree with you too.

Album Rating: 3.5

This album is my current guilty pleasure. I'll love it for the next month or so then I'll hate it.

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hmm

Where did that come from? =P

All of a sudden everyone is doing that face.