Marina

One Liner: Bad British Pop
Wikipedia Genre: Electropop, sythn-pop, indie pop, art pop
Home: Wales

Poster Position: Top Quarter - Line 6 (!?!?!)
Day: Saturday
Both Weekends.

American Express Stage at 4:30.

Thoughts:  In reading the name here, I was really hoping that this would be a band named after the place where you store boats, and not a lady singing vacuous lyrics over the top of generic pop beats.  Alas.  I have heard "BUTTERFLY" twice this morning and it makes me want to stop listening to music forever.  Let's get this wrapped up.

Marina Lambrini Diamandis, known previously as Marina and the Diamonds, is a Welsh singer who moved to London to become a professional singer.  She soon thereafter placed second in something called BBC's Sound of 2010, which brought her some fame.  She has six albums, which is somewhat shocking to me, being that I have never heard any of this.  She says that she lived in a bungalow in Wales with her mother, having a "peaceful, normal, poor" upbringing.  She moved to London and hustled for money while she went to singing auditions and met with labels.  It apparently took a while.

Her biggest song, by a ton, is from her second album Electra Heart.  "Bubblegum Bitch" somehow has 652.1 million streams.

Sounds like some 80's band that I can't put my finger on.  Missing Persons.  Remember that "Words" song?  Anyway, this track is super generic from the riffs to the lyrics.  I'm gonna pop your bubblegum heart.  Her new album includes a song entitled "CUNTISSIMO," just FYI.  Her second-biggest streamer is also from that second disc, as is her third, so let's go with fourth place, which is from her debut album.  "Oh No!" has 335.4 million streams.

The "and the Diamonds" part of her original name was not about a backing band, but is apparently just about her fans?  Which is very odd.  Anyway, that song is very bad too.  I know that the Brits have weird taste sometimes, but the number of streams on her Spotify songs is mind-boggling.  Those songs are very bad.  I had to turn that one off.  Hard no from me here.