#10 years electra heart

[that-one-empty-skull]

#electra heart #10 years electra heart #happy birthday electra heart <333 #marina #marina and the diamonds #electra heart anniversary

[starcatching]

ELECTRA HEART BY MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS RELEASED APRIL 27, 2012

Post ‘Electra Heart,’ I felt kind of ashamed, like this isn’t really who I am. Now I think it was a really cool, dark, subversive pop record that was using the American system to elevate myself as an artist. I wouldn’t do it again, but it kind of changed my life. - Marina for the New York Times

#marina #marinaedit #popularcultures #blogmusicdaily #userbbelcher #dailymusicqueens #dailywomen #marinasdaily #femaledaily #dailylarina #tusercourtney #usersnat #electra heart #marina and the diamonds #myedit #happy 10 year anniversary to this iconic album #i think listening to marina as a teenager should qualify you for free therapy sessions fsgd

[boag]

Omg I just realized….. I’m pretty sure I made my first ever tumblr acc in December 2013 . It’s my 10 year anniversary of being a girlblogger 😻

#I was 10 years old but to be fair I was a Troye Sivan youtube channel enjoyer #and he was always talking abt being on tumblr #AND marina had the Electra Heart tumblr blog #so I just had to see what all the fuss was about!

[kermitgasm]

— got you wrapped around my finger, babe you can count on me to misbehave - primadonna girl

#dailywomen #dailymusicqueens #electra heart #marina diamandis #marina and the diamonds #womendaily #gifs #alternativequeens #popularcultures #femaledaily #flawlessbeautyqueens #marina #primadonna #HELP i just realized it’s 10 years of electra heart… happy birthday omfg #dailygifs #pop culture #usercellphonehippie

[ofeylia]

10 Years of Electra Heart 💔

Electra Heart, are you faux? Real? Through others, we become ourselves: The Archetypes.

#marina #marianaedit #marina and the diamonds #marina diamandis #gifset #electra heart #10 years of electra heart

[romxnticpoetry]

i feel like if i’m too kind then you will only change your mind

#2014 band tumblr #2014 tumblr grunge #2014 nostalgia #i miss 2014 #2014 aesthetic #2014 grunge #marina and the diamonds #arctic monkeys #the neighbourhood #the xx #10 years of electra heart #electra heart #soft grunge #grunge #2014 tumblr

[stopitmeg]

reblog whenever you re-enter your electra heart era

#in a few days this album is going to be 10 years old??? #hello??? #can’t deny i’m emotional #marina #marina diamandis #marina and the diamonds #electra heart

[gidianthe]

brb i have to listen to electra heart and think about ianthe tridentarius

#its so fucking tragic that ianthe was born 10 thousand years too late to listen to marina. #i 100% believe john has an old electra heart vinyl somewhere on the mithraeum tho

[thelongforgottenglamorousdays]

~☆~ELECTRA HEART~☆~

 Electra was a bubblegum bitch, a primadonna girl. All she ever wanted was the world, but the world was full of lies. People used to call her homewrecker, so she made the homewrecker her starring role. In a state of dreaming she had power and control, but she felt like a living dead. She wished she had been a teen idle in the valley of the dolls, but even there it was full of 'hypocrates', fear and loathing, so she decided to fake her death in August 8th, 2013 (I refuse to believe she's dead) She's been living in the dark ever since, where no lights will blind her.

                                                                        by me  

#ELECTRA HEART 10 YEARS #ELECTRA HEART #MARINA #MARINA DIAMANDIS #MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS #PLATINUM BLONDE EDITION #BUBBLEGUM BITCH #PRIMADONNA GIRL #HOW TO BE A HEARTBREAKER #LIES #2012 #2022 #QUEEN MARINA

[ferrisbuellers]

“Now I think [Electra Heart] was a really cool, dark, subversive pop record that was using the American system to elevate myself as an artist. I wouldn’t do it again, but it kind of changed my life.” 10 YEARS OF ELECTRA HEART by MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS RELEASED ON APRIL 27, 2012

#marinaedit #matdedit #marina #marina diamandis #marina and the diamonds #marinasdaily #usermusic #dailymusicians #alternativequeens #popularcultures #dailymusicqueens #userbbelcher #dailylarina #useroptional #chewieblog #linda-darnell #userjasmine #tuserdana #* #such an iconic album

[lastrassi]

Queen of no identity, I always feel like someone else. A living myth. 10 years of Electra Heart

#marina #marina and the diamonds #electra heart #mg #marina diamandis #primadonna #power and control #how to be a heartbreaker #lonely hearts club #my gif #musicedit #fi

[cinnabargirl]

You know what with it being the 10 year anniversary of Electra Heart and Born to Die also turning 10 a few months ago I can't help but feel that no other pop albums shaped the early 10s and lots of pop music henceforth the way these two did. The way they sound like nothing that was being made at the time in terms of lyrics and instrumentation/production and that there's not much else that has really been able (or has wanted) to imitate them in their wake despite their popularity really goes to show how unique they were, especially in the sea of vapid EDM/dubstep that dominated the charts back in those days.

#i listened to btd top to bottom the other and i really havent heard anything similar ever since #with eh its all about the cynical lyrics and ott pop production #music #lana del rey #marina #marina and the diamonds #electra heart #born to die

[fallenangelontheceiling]

I was researching the mythological Elektra after I read a poem about her and realized I knew little of the context.

And then it hit me…

Marina’s Electra Heart wasn’t just a sexy name choice.

It only took me 10 years.

#marina #marina and the diamonds #electra heart #marina diamandis #elektra #greek mythology

[belladonnafey]

9 Favourite Albums tag game :)

(or EPs. this is for fun.)

tagged by @mortalfollies

[ID: a 3X3 grid of 9 album covers. the albums listed, from left to right and top to bottom, are: Puberty 2 by Mitski, Little Oblivions by Julien Baker, Preacher’s Daughter by Ethel Cain, Lungs by Florence and The Machine, The Fool in Her Wedding Gown by The Crane Wives, Home Video by Lucy Dacus, Historian by Lucy Dacus, Folie á Deux by Fall Out Boy, and Be The Cowboy by Mitski. END ID.]

Puberty 2-Mitski:

“not happy or sad, just up or down- and always bad”

This is probably my favorite album of all time. 100% no skips, and the music on it is really soothing to me.

Favorite song: Fireworks

Current obsession: Thursday Girl

Little Oblivions-Julien Baker:

“‘cause if I didn’t have a mean bone in my body, I’d find some other way to cause you pain”

This is an album that took me ages to actually get into, but it hits so hard. This is an album that often needs my full attention while somehow also being a “scream in the car with your windows down” album at the same time

Favorite song: Relative Fiction

Current obsessions: Favor and Song in E

Preacher’s Daughter- Ethel Cain

“If I’m turning in your stomach and I’m making you feel sick”

Ethel Cain is single-handedly bringing back the lost art of the concept album. If you can sell me on giving your album a spoiler warning before i talk about it then you’ve won

Favorite song: Strangers

Current obsession: Hard Times

Lungs- Florence and The Machine

“there is love in your body but you can’t hold it in, it pours from your eyes and spills from your skin”

This is kind of just a stand in for how much I love Florence in general but this album is just so, so good.

Favorite song: Hardest of Hearts

Current obsession: Rabbit Heart

The Fool in Her Wedding Gown- The Crane Wives

“I will love you like the ashes in my cigarette box”

This is another album representing the whole band, but this specific album is 100% no skip for me.

Favorite song: Shallow River

Current obsession: Strangler Fig

Home Video- Lucy Dacus

“heat wave by midday, heat lightning on a summer night”

this album genuinely changed my life

Favorite song: First Time

Historian- Lucy Dacus

“You don’t deserve what you don’t respect, don’t deserve what you say you love and then neglect”

This album has me screaming along to 7+ minute songs. It’s incredible.

Favorite song: Next of Kin

Folie á Deux- Fall Out Boy

“I don’t just want to be a footnote in someone else’s happiness”

This album is on the list specifically because of how good it is as a cohesive album. It’s spectacular and has been one of my favorites for almost 10 years

I don’t have a specific favorite. every song on this album fucks pretty much equally

Be the Cowboy- Mitski

“It’s just that I fell in love with a war, and nobody told me it ended”

you all already know what’s up.

Favorite song: A Pearl

Current obsession: also A Pearl

Honorable Mention: Hozier by Hozier, Electra Heart by MARINA, SAWAYAMA by Rina Sawayama, Boygenius by Boygenius, Valentine by Snail Mail

Tagging: @justconstantly @myladyvesta @soupyzoupy @cyber-feline @classicsnerd @amusedmuralist @theurbanspaceboi @a-dux and anyone else!!

#long post #tag game #cranberryposting #music

[mariacallous]

On “Bubblegum Bitch,” the opening track of Electra Heart, Diamandis sings, “Dear diary, I met a boy/ He made my doll heart light up with joy/ Dear diary, we fell apart/ Welcome to the life of Electra Heart.” Contextually, that last line isn’t really phrased as an invitation, yet I interpreted it as one. Electra Heart, Marina explained in an interview with Pop Justice, was a character — not specifically an alter ego but instead “a vehicle to portray part of the American dream, with elements of Greek tragedy.” It may have started that way, but Electra Heart was something weirder and more specific; it became a symbol of womanhood in late-stage capitalism and in the age of the internet.

The mood board associated with Electra Heart was a simple look: dull pink, silver tiaras, lace bras, platinum hair, ripped fishnets. It was about being palpably unhealthy — depressed, anxious, anorexic, addicted to drugs — but still beautiful in a disorderly kind of way, like a dystopian pageant winner. A thin layer of glamor is painted over depths of disgust; “I guess you could say that my life’s a mess/ But I’m still looking pretty in this dress/ I’m the image of deception,” she announces on “Homewrecker.” There’s a simultaneous lethargy and thrill, like being sleep-deprived yet spending hours on doing makeup and picking an outfit. There’s a Tumblr post of a screenshot of a TikTok that reads: “electra heart is kinda like the joker but for teenage girls.”

This was true in the sense that Electra Heart inspired us to explore the most unhinged paths within our womanhood, leading us to repressed desires, or what we figured were our repressed desires. Did we want to be the Homewrecker? The Heartbreaker? The Teen Idle? The Bubblegum Bitch? We played these roles, imagining more complicated lives for ourselves. “My life is a play, is a play, is a play,” Diamandis croons on “The State Of Dreaming,” a soaring song basking in its own artifice. So was ours online.

Electra Heart was a sharp pivot from the alternative-leaning synth-pop sound of Marina’s 2010 debut Family Jewels. A lot of critics at the time, especially women, were almost offended by the sophomore album — partially due to the perceived creative regression of working with leading pop producers like Stargate, Greg Kurstin, and Dr. Luke, but maybe even more so due to the Electra Heart persona. “‘Housewife. Beauty Queen. Homewrecker. Idle Teen.’ Um, speak for yourself? I mean, fucking hell, seriously?” wrote Emily Mackay for The Quietus. Laura Snapes’ Pitchfork review was littered with words like “lazy,” “horrible,” and “unbearable.” Priya Elan wrote that it was “an expensive-sounding failure” for NME.

These reactions occurred while the album thrived on Tumblr, becoming a crucial foundation for communities in which teenage girls, like me, navigated their identities. It remains a staple of mid-2010s chronically online alt-pop, alongside albums like Lana Del Rey’s Born To Die and Sky Ferreira’s Night Time, My Time. Fans — especially stans — who are now in their early 20s reminisce on it and rave about it in the same way rock fans do with Nirvana’s Nevermind. To us, it was groundbreaking and forever changed the arc of music and culture. The likes of Marina And The Diamonds and Sky Ferreira never became household names, necessarily — Lana Del Rey is another, more complicated story — but that didn’t stop them from becoming ubiquitous within internet spheres.

In The Day Of The Locust, a massively influential 1939 novel satirizing the vapidity of Hollywood, Nathanael West writes, “It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous.” It is easy to be mad and upset about the realities of being a woman in this era — of spending money on products to make ourselves more desirable, of being told that we’re less desirable by using said products, of being told we’re ugly if we don’t use said products, of losing our value and worth for acting on our own desire, of being a prude if we do not, of being told that we are not supposed to desire but only be desired, of being told that our desirability is the only thing we have to offer. But it is hard to laugh. It’s hard to mock this absurd reality and make light of it when it has been a source of exasperation for so long. Yet that’s what Electra Heart does.

[selenealwayscries]

did you know Electra Heart turned 10 a few days ago

happy 10 years old to the album that ruined my life have my blorbo as your album cover

more doodles below you know the drill

I've been brainrotting over this idea

this isnt a flex it's a cry for help

#mcyt #hermitcraft #hermitblr #grian #grianmc #ariana griande #not tagging el*ctr* he*rt cuz . crosstagging #hope this doesnt show up in their tag i dont wanna get killed yet #ok so #i know i havent posted in the paspast two days BUT . im still pretty busy with real life stuff and yesterday was mcc and were all busy #watching that #so to avoid flopping i thought posting this today would be the best choice i have #anyways i spent so much time struggling to imitate the original font that was used on the album cover like #i had to download it to my laptop and just keep looking back up at the screen for reference #not a good day for my posture . or my neck . or my back #also side note #ariana griande with a 60s actress aesthetic could very well be an art idea yknow #maybe ill do that some other time but . seeing as this album already goes with that aesthetic i feel like i have already done my part /j #ive been blasting this album on loop for the past couple days and i think i might be going insane #just . really bad brain rot yknow #i need write like 3 different essays and reflections its not great for that #anyways please scream at me in the tags or in my askbox if this is . anything #i require human interaction /hj #gonna go make soup for myself now i deserve that #soup courses through my body and provide me with peace and strength #anyways thanks for coming to my ted talk #edit: i keep forgetting my art tag so #catgirl supreme