Electra Heart
File:Electraheart.jpg
Studio album by Marina and the Diamonds
Released 27 April 2012 (2012-04-27)
Recorded 2010–12
Genre Electronic, pop[1][2]
Length 46:51
Label 679, Atlantic
Producer DJ Chuckie, Cirkut, Diplo, Dr. Luke, Liam Howe, Devrim Karaoğlu, Greg Kurstin, Fabian Lenssen, Ryan McMahon, Rick Nowels, Ryan Rabin, Dean Reid, Stargate
Marina and the Diamonds chronology
The American Jewels EP
(2010)		 Electra Heart
(2012)
Singles from Electra Heart
  1. "Primadonna"
    Released: 20 March 2012 (2012-03-20)
  2. "Power & Control"
    Released: 9 July 2012 (2012-07-09)[3]

Electra Heart is the second studio album by Welsh recording artist Marina and the Diamonds. It was released on 27 April 2012 by 679 Artists and Atlantic Records. Diamandis worked with several record producers on the album, including previous collaborators Liam Howe and Greg Kurstin, as well as Dr. Luke, Diplo and Stargate.

An electronic and pop album, Electra Heart represents a change in musical direction from the indie pop and New Wave styles of Diamandis's previous releases. The song "Radioactive" was released as a promotional single on 23 September 2011.[4] The album's official lead single, "Primadonna", premiered on BBC Radio 1 on 12 March 2012,[5] and was released digitally on 20 March 2012.[6]

Contents

Background [link]

On 8 August 2011, Diamandis uploaded a music video titled "Part 1: Fear and Loathing", containing the tagline "Electra Heart: The Start". Directed by Caspar Balslev, the video sees Diamandis in front of a bathroom mirror cutting off her hair.[7] A second Balslev-directed music video, "Part 2: Radioactive", was uploaded two weeks later and featured Diamandis recollecting her relationship with an ex-boyfriend.[8] The Stargate-produced track was then released in the United Kingdom on 30 September 2011,[9] where it debuted at number twenty-five on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Diamandis's fourth top forty single.[10]

A third music video, "Part 3: The Archetypes", was uploaded on 15 December 2011 and, at a length of one minute and twenty-one seconds, hinted at the title of four album tracks with the lyric "Housewife, beauty queen, homewrecker, idle teen".[11] Two other songs were released to YouTube prior to the album release, a demo version of "Starring Role" on 20 November 2011,[12] and "Homewrecker" on 27 February 2012.[13] Early versions of tracks that leaked before the album were "Sex Yeah", "Living Dead" and "Power & Control".[14][15]

On 1 March 2012, Diamandis unveiled the track listing for the twelve-track standard edition of Electra Heart via Twitter and Facebook, while also uploading the album's cover image.[16] The four bonus tracks contained on the deluxe edition, including promotional single "Radioactive", were announced on 5 March 2012. The video for the first single "Primadonna" premiered on Diamandis's YouTube channel on 12 March 2012, and it was simultaneously released to UK radios. It was released to Swedish radio stations on 3 April 2012.[17] It was released digitally on 15 April 2012.[18]

On 18 May 2012, Marina uploaded "Part 5: Su-Barbie-A" onto her Youtube channel. The video, shot in Black & White, shows Marina in the role of the Suburban Housewife archetype. Aswell as singing the lyrics "S-U-B-A-R-B-I-E-A", the video contains audio clips of old old Hollywood movies and Barbie commercials. It's a total of two minutes and one second and features the instrumental of the album track, "Valley of The Dolls". [19] On the same day, she confirmed "Power & Control" will serve as the album's second single, after tweeting images from the tracks music video. [20] The video premiered on Diamandis's Youtube channel on 31 May 2012, showing Marina and her male partner in a power struggle relationship.[21]

Concept and influences [link]

"Electra Heart is the antithesis of everything that I stand for. 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."

—Marina and the Diamonds discussing Electra Heart, the album's titular character.[22]

Diamandis told Popjustice that "basically Electra Heart is a story", calling it "a really cinematic 70s Americana-type film" divided into three parts.[22] The album is centred around the titular character Electra Heart, who, according to Diamandis, is not an alter ego, but rather "it's kind of basically a vehicle to portray part of the American dream, with elements of Greek tragedy and that's all going to be coming out through the visuals."[22] She added that she "wanted to create a cold, ruthless character who wasn't vulnerable."[23] Diamandis described the album as "an ode to dysfunctional love" and elaborated, "I based the project around character types commonly found in love stories, film and theatre, usually ones associated with power and control in love, as opposed to weakness or defeat [...] Rejection is a universally embarrassing topic and Electra Heart is my response to that. It is a frank album."[24]

The idea of basing the songs around the Electra Heart character and four archetypes—Diamandis's own take on the facets of female personality that include the Primadonna, Su-Barbie-A, the Teen Idle and the Homewrecker—originated from the time she spent travelling in the United States after the release of her debut album, The Family Jewels (2010). She explains:

"I was starting to think about our Tumblr generation, and how photos appear on Tumblr and people become almost like mini-stars of the internet, and you don't know who the hell they are—they're just anonymous faces. So I started to take photos, and make an effort to look completely different in each one, in different hotels and apartments all across America when I was travelling. And it just started to build from that. It was more the prima donna archetype at the beginning, really; I was reading a lot of books like Hollywood Babylon, focusing more on the gossipy, suicidal side of the '30s and '40s in Hollywood. That's how it started, and then it grew into a real project."[1]

Speaking on ITV's morning chat show Lorraine, Diamandis cited Madonna, Marilyn Monroe and Marie Antoinette as inspirations for the album: "[Madonna is] a fearless person. She's been knocked down so many times—for someone to keep going, it shows that they don't want to just have fame and success. They want to be a successful artist."[25] Speaking further about the album's concept, she said, "It's a bit cringe, but I wanted it to be a way of personifying love and heartbreak. The whole campaign is pink and fluffy, it's about love. I can never just make up a story, it has to be something that's happened in my life."[25]

Critical reception [link]

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 54/100[26]
Review scores
Source Rating
Clash 1/10[27]
Drowned in Sound 5/10[28]
Evening Standard 4/5 stars[29]
The Guardian 3/5 stars[2]
The Independent 3/5 stars[30]
The Irish Times 4/5 stars[31]
musicOMH 3/5 stars[32]
NME 5/10[33]
Pitchfork Media 5.9/10[34]
The Times 2/5 stars[35]

Electra Heart received mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 54, based on 13 reviews, which indicates "mixed or average reviews".[26] Michael Cragg of BBC Music wrote that "[t]here are moments where the songs themselves aren't quite interesting enough to prop up Marina's voice", but noted that "these are minor quibbles", commending the album for its ability to "balance the ironic and the heartfelt, the quirky and the mainstream, the real and the fake with remarkable aplomb."[36] Robert Copsey of Digital Spy gave the album four out of five stars, stating that "the earworm hooks, colossal choruses and sheer barminess ensures that Electra Heart is a thoroughly enjoyable listen throughout—regardless of whether you buy into the concept."[37] Pete Clark of the Evening Standard agreed, commenting that "Marina excels at slower tempos, as in ['Primadonna'], 'Lies', 'Valley of the Dolls' and 'The State of Dreaming', where her swooping vocals over an electro-pop beat bring to mind Kate Bush taking the easier option of her earlier days. Best of the lot is 'Homewrecker', a part spoken-word epic, which the Pet Shop Boys would not have been ashamed to put their signature on."[29] The Irish Times' Tony Clayton-Lea rated the album four out of five stars, noting it has "a Euro-pop brashness to it that augurs well for enduring chart success [...] as well as getting her name out there beyond a niche audience."[31]

Helen Clarke of musicOMH claimed that "with her debut album [Diamandis] showed she can do credible ballads and quirky pop, and Electra Heart showcases glimpses of a clever, ballsy pop star."[32] In a review for the Daily Express, Simon Gage wrote that Diamandis's voice is "quirky, fun and often floats very high" and called the lyrics "refreshingly intelligent", adding, "It's definitely not a by-numbers pop album but there are enough radio-friendly hooks to make it a commercial hit."[38] The Guardian critic Alexis Petridis opined that the best songs on the album are "not the ones involving the big-name songwriters", but rather "those Diamandis came up with in collaboration with the producer of The Family Jewels, Liam Howe." He concluded, "There's clearly an interesting pop star somewhere in there: last time she was submerged by her own zaniness, this time she's somewhere beneath some half-hearted songs, a confused concept and someone else's image. Perhaps next time—if there is a next time—she might come good."[2] Drowned in Sound's Krystina Nellis found the album's concept confusing, calling Electra Heart "a reasonably fun listen, and even if it falls short of its stratospheric ambition, still has more to say than many of Marina's contemporaries." Nellis continued, "Weighed down by too much pseudo intellect and, crucially, not enough amazing pop songs, this is one tightrope act that was always going to end more with a whimper than a great flourish."[28]

Regarding the album's themes of love, identity, femininity and America, The Observer's Kitty Empire expressed, "All that topspin allows the quirky Diamandis to make pumping glitz like Britney or Katy Perry while retaining some ironic distance [...] Her Heart is not all as craven as that, but these prom queen themes have had a more intriguing musical treatment from Lana del Rey."[39] Simon Price of The Independent, giving the album three out of five stars, felt it is "too professional to be truly terrible, but it's never clever enough to be more than merely toytown."[30] Priya Elan of the NME was unimpressed, writing that "the album as a whole is an expensive-sounding failure. Not sure-footed enough in its subversion, its artificiality feels fake rather than carefully plotted."[33] Similarly, Pitchfork Media's Laura Snapes opined, "Working with Dr. Luke, Stargate, Greg Kurstin, and Liam Howe, the songs on Electra Heart fall into three basic categories: the bland, swampy banger [...], a regal, electronic strut falling somewhere between Depeche Mode at their poppiest and the Doctor Who theme tune, and very cloying, nursery rhyme music-box ballads."[34] George Boorman of Clash scored the album one out of ten, dubbing it "an ingloriously languid statement of Marina's demise, the final stamp of disapproval on her flailing excuse of a musical career."[27] The Times reviewer Will Hodgkinson gave Electra Heart two out of five stars and dismissed it as "an album full of cliches that could have come from any X-Factor puppet".[35]

Commercial performance [link]

Electra Heart debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of 21,358 copies,[40] becoming Diamandis's first number-one album.[41] The following week, the album dropped to number thirteen, selling 8,416 copies.[42] In its third week, it slipped to number thirty on sales of 4,567 units.[43] It also debuted at number one on the Irish Albums Chart and the Scottish Albums Chart.[44][45] After falling to number three, the album returned to number one in its third week on the Irish chart.[46] In continental Europe, Electra Heart reached number eleven in Switzerland, number thirty in Norway and number forty-one in Sweden.[47][48][49] In Oceania, the album peaked at number thirty-two on the ARIA Albums Chart and at number twenty-three on the ARIA Digital Albums Chart,[50][51] while charting at number thirty-three in New Zealand.[52]

Track listing [link]

No. Title Writer(s) Producer(s) Length
1. "Bubblegum Bitch"   Marina Diamandis, Rick Nowels Nowels, Dean Reid* 2:34
2. "Primadonna"   Diamandis, Julie Frost, Łukasz Gottwald, Henry Walter Dr. Luke, Cirkut 3:41
3. "Lies"   Diamandis, Gottwald, Walter, Thomas Pentz Dr. Luke, Cirkut, Diplo* 3:46
4. "Homewrecker"   Diamandis, Nowels Nowels 3:22
5. "Starring Role"   Diamandis, Greg Kurstin Kurstin 3:27
6. "The State of Dreaming"   Diamandis, Nowels, Devrim Karaoğlu Nowels, Karaoğlu 3:36
7. "Power & Control"   Diamandis, Steve Angello Kurstin 3:46
8. "Living Dead"   Diamandis, Kurstin Kurstin 4:04
9. "Teen Idle"   Diamandis Liam Howe 4:14
10. "Valley of the Dolls"   Diamandis, Nowels, Karaoğlu Nowels, Karaoğlu 4:13
11. "Hypocrates"   Diamandis, Nowels Nowels, Karaoğlu 4:01
12. "Fear and Loathing"   Diamandis Howe 6:07
Total length:
 46:51

(*) denotes co-producer

Online bonus contents

The enhanced CD allows exclusive online access to the following bonus contents:

  • "Lies" (Acoustic) (video) – 4:07
  • "Primadonna" (Benny Benassi Remix) – 3:55
  • "Primadonna" (Kat Krazy Remix) – 3:39

Personnel [link]

Credits adapted from Electra Heart album liner notes.[55]

  • Marina Diamandis – vocals (all tracks); piano (9, 12, 16)
  • Rusty Anderson – electric guitar (1, 4, 6, 10, 11); bouzouki (10)
  • Casper Balslev – photography
  • Big Active – layout
  • Tim Blacksmith – executive producer, Stargate management (13)
  • David Campbell – string arrangements, string conductor (6, 10)
  • Matt Chamberlain – drums (11)
  • Dan Chase – keyboards (1, 4); bass, drums, programming (4)
  • DJ Chuckie – instruments, producer (13)
  • Cirkut – instruments, producer, programming (2, 3)
  • Danny D. – executive producer, Stargate management (13)
  • Diplo – additional programming, co-producer (3)
  • Dr. Luke – instruments, producer, programming (2, 3)
  • The Elite – additional drum production, additional drum programming (9)
  • Mikkel S. Eriksen – engineer, instruments (13)
  • Kat Garbutt – management
  • Serban Ghenea – mixing (2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 14)
  • Clint Gibbs – engineer (2, 3)
  • Matty Green – mixing assistant (1, 4, 6, 10, 11)
  • John Hanes – mix engineer (2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 14)
  • Tor Erik Hermansen – instruments (13)
  • Liam Howe – producer, mixing (9, 12, 16); Philicorda, santoor (9); synthesiser (9, 12); Mellotron, programming, telegraph keyboards (12)
  • John Ingoldsby – additional engineer (1, 4, 6, 10, 11)
  • Lambrini Kaklamani – additional vocals (12)
  • Devrim Karaoğlu – drums, keyboards, producer, programming (6, 10, 11); strings (6); bass (10, 11)
  • Greg Kurstin – keyboards, producer, programming (5, 7, 8, 14); engineer (5, 7, 14); piano (5); bass, guitar (7, 8, 14)
  • Fabian Lenssen – additional assistant engineer, engineer, instruments, producer (13)
  • Damien Lewis – additional assistant engineer (13)
  • Nigel Lundemo – additional engineer (1, 4, 6, 10, 11)
  • Derek Mackillop – management
  • Ryan McMahon – engineer, instruments, producer, programming (15)
  • Kieron Menzies – engineer (1, 4, 6, 10, 11)
  • Katie Mitzell – production coordination (2, 3)
  • Rick Nowels – keyboards, producer (1, 4, 6, 10, 11); electric guitar (4); piano (6, 11)
  • Charlie Paakkari – string engineer (6, 10)
  • Dan Parry – mixing (15)
  • Tim Pierce – electric guitar (1, 6, 11)
  • Ryan Rabin – engineer, instruments, producer, programming (15)
  • Dean Reid – bass, co-producer, drums, engineer, keyboards (1); electric guitar (1, 6)
  • Irene Richter – production coordination (2, 3)
  • Tim Roberts – assistant mix engineer (2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 14)
  • Phil Seaford – assistant mix engineer (2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 14)
  • Jesse Shatkin – additional engineer (5, 7, 14)
  • Jon Sher – assistant engineer (2, 3)
  • Stargate – producers (13)
  • Mark "Spike" Stent – mixing (1, 4, 6, 10, 11)
  • Phil Tan – mixing (13)
  • Miles Walker – engineer (13)
  • Trevor Yasuda – assistant engineer (1, 4, 6, 10, 11)

Charts [link]

Chart (2012) Peak
position
Australian Albums Chart[50] 32
Irish Albums Chart[44] 1
New Zealand Albums Chart[52] 33
Norwegian Albums Chart[48] 30
Scottish Albums Chart[45] 1
Swedish Albums Chart[49] 41
Swiss Albums Chart[47] 11
UK Albums Chart[41] 1

Release history [link]

Country Date Label Format(s) Edition(s)
Ireland[56] 27 April 2012 679 Artists, Atlantic Records CD, digital download Standard, deluxe
United Kingdom[57][53] 30 April 2012
Sweden[17] 2 May 2012 Warner Music
Portugal[58] 6 May 2012
Spain[58]
Austria[58] 11 May 2012
Greece[58] 14 May 2012
Russia[58]
Australia[59] 18 May 2012
New Zealand[58]
Switzerland[58]
Italy[58] 22 May 2012
Germany[60] 25 May 2012
Netherlands[61]
Poland[62][63] 28 May 2012 Digital download Standard
18 June 2012 CD
Canada[58] 10 July 2012 CD, digital download Standard, deluxe
United States[58][64] Atlantic Records

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"Lies" is the fifteenth single from British pop rock band, McFly, released on 15 September 2008. "Lies" did not feature on the promotional 10-track copy of the album Radio:Active which was given away in The Mail on Sunday in July 2008, however it features as one of the four additional tracks on the retail edition of the album, which was released on 22 September 2008. The lead vocals for the song are split between band members Danny Jones and Tom Fletcher, with vocal contributions from bassist Dougie Poynter.

Background

"Lyrically, Lies is definitely the darkest song we've ever written," says Tom Fletcher, who shares vocals on the track with Danny Jones. "It's about a real bitch of a girl who is out for herself and doesn't care who she uses to get what she wants. We did have a girl in mind when we wrote it, but really it's an amalgam of several girls we have met along the way. We hope she burns in hell at the end. A real good time tune then!" On 17 September 2008 the song was added to BBC Radio 1's A-List and BBC Radio 2's A-List.

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"Lies" is a popular song with music by Harry Barris and lyrics by George E. Springer. It was published in 1931.

The song was originally recorded in 1931-32 by:

  • Gus Arnheim and his orchestra (vocal by Dave Marshall), recorded October 29, 1931, released by Victor Records as catalog number 22853, with the flip side "Put Your Little Arms Around Me"
  • Gene Austin (with the Ben Pollack orchestra), recorded November 10, 1931, and released by Perfect Records as catalog number 15542, with the flip side "I'm Sorry, Dear"
  • Bing Crosby
  • Henry Halstead
  • Benny Kreuger and his orchestra (vocal by Frank Sylvano), recorded January 21, 1932, and released by Brunswick as catalog number 6246B, with the flip side "Was That the Human Thing to Do?"

    • It has since been recorded by many other singers, including Perry Como for RCA Victor, Snooky Lanson for London, Julia Lee and Her Boyfriends for Capitol, and Jack Pleis and His Orchestra for Decca Records (United States).

    The Como recording was made on November 4, 1952 and released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 20-5064 (78 rpm) and 47-5064 (45 rpm). The flip side of the single was "Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes," a bigger hit, but this side did reach #30 on the Billboard charts. The same recording was also released in the United Kingdom by HMV as catalog number B-10431 in March, 1953, with the flip side "I Confess." It was also included in the 1956 LP album A Sentimental Date With Perry Como (RCA catalog number LPM-1177), and on several EP records.

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    Pandora (Chinese: 潘朵拉; pinyin: Pānduǒlā) is Taiwanese Mandopop artist Angela Chang's third Mandarin studio album. It was released on 1 January 2006 by Linfair Records. The Pandora (Bump Off Lover Edition) (Chinese: 潘朵拉2006繽紛愛殺版; pinyin: Pānduǒlā Èrlínglíngliù Bīnfēn Ài Shā Bǎn) was released on 24 February 2006 with a bonus DVD containing seven music videos and Taiwanese drama Bump Off Lover sneak peeks.

    The track "潘朵拉" (Pandora) was nominated for Top 10 Gold Songs at the Hong Kong TVB8 Awards, presented by television station TVB8, in 2006.

    The track, "隱形的翅膀" (Invisible Wings) won one of the Top 10 Songs of the Year, at the 2007 HITO Radio Music Awards presented by Taiwanese radio station Hit FM. It is the fifth best selling album in Taiwan with 88,000 copies sold in 2006.

    Track listing

  • "隱形的翅膀" (Invisible Wings)
  • "潘朵拉" (Pandora)
  • "香水百合" (Water Lily)
  • "真的" (Really)
  • "最近" (Recent)
  • "驚天動地" (Shaken World)
  • "保護色" (Protective Color)
  • "口袋的天空" (Pocket's Sky)
  • "愛情旅程" (Love Journey)
  • "喜歡你沒道理" (Like You without Reason)
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    A darknet market or cryptomarket is a commercial website on the dark web that operates via darknets such as Tor or I2P. Most function as black markets, selling or brokering transactions involving drugs, cyber-arms,weapons, counterfeit currency, stolen credit card details, forged documents, unlicensed pharmaceuticals,steroids, other illicit goods as well as the sale of legal products. In December 2014, a study by Gareth Owen from the University of Portsmouth suggested the second most popular content on Tor were darknet markets.

    Following on from the model developed by Silk Road, contemporary markets are characterised by their use of darknet anonymised access (typically Tor), bitcoin payment with escrow services, and eBay-like vendor feedback systems.

    Vendor product breakdown 3 June 2015

    History

    1970s to 2011

    Though e-commerce on the dark web only started around 2006, illicit goods were among the first items to be transacted using the internet, when in the early 1970s students at Stanford University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology used what was then called the ARPANET to coordinate the purchase of cannabis. By the end of the 1980s, newsgroups like alt.drugs would become online centres of drug discussion and information, however any related deals were arranged entirely off-site directly between individuals. With the development and popularization of the World Wide Web and e-commerce in the 1990s, the tools to discuss or conduct illicit transactions became more widely available. One of the better-known web-based drug forums, The Hive, launched in 1997, serving as an information sharing forum for practical drug synthesis and legal discussion. The Hive was featured in a Dateline NBC special called The "X" Files in 2001, bringing the subject into public discourse.

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    Main characters

    Grim Reaper

    Voiced by Greg Eagles

    Grim is over one hundred and thirty-seven thousand years old (as had been born at the time of the Stone Age) and speaks using a Jamaican accent. The continuity of how Grim got his reaper status and tremendously strong and powerful supernatural powers comes up quite a few times and it is unknown which way he really got his supernatural powers (for example, in The Wrath of the Spider Queen movie, he was elected to his position as the Grim Reaper while he was in middle school; however, in A Grim Prophecy, it is shown that he was the Grim Reaper since his childhood with his parents forcing him to be the Reaper, which is further contradicted in a later episode where he is seen stumbling over his scythe to become Grim Reaper). His long scythe is the source of all of his supernatural and magical abilities, and possesses many magical capabilities and qualities; although he is still capable of using some incredibly powerful magic spells without it, though these instances are quite rare.

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