MARINA - Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land

[HausOfAntonio 7,822]

DRAGGEDDDDD THE INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURAL COMPLEXXXXX OMG QUEEN SLAY MEEEEE 

[Danny Milk 1,721]

13 minutes ago, ARTPOPe said:

She just posted a snippet of New America

 

she's sick for teasing pink convertible again considering its not on the album 😭

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1 minute ago, Danny Milk said:

she's sick for teasing pink convertible again considering its not on the album 😭

Oh my, I didn't even realize 

That Deluxe Version better be coming, Marina 

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Don't underestimate me
Cause one day you're gonna see
You're in a losing battle
And you'll never stop me be me

Whatever you give life
You're gonna get back
Why be a wallflower
When you can be a Venus Fly Trap

Venus Fly Trap announcement coming soon(-ish) 

Shame that the album apparently barely makes it over 30 minutes though 

[Rebel 5,221]

These new lyrics...

[Reid LePage 4,773]

25 minutes ago, ajmsamuel said:

but also this.. i read a review and acording to that new america will be the sister of ADIAML and Purge The Poison.. but who knows

i think it's the production, the beat is fast but the lyrics and her cadence is quite slow and dreamy, a weird contrast

[ajmsamuel 1,249]

13 hours ago, ARTPOPe said:

Oh my, I didn't even realize 

That Deluxe Version better be coming, Marina 

is there an actual snippet? i see Lota of fans askin for that song, is that that good? 

[ajmsamuel 1,249]

13 hours ago, Hybrid Rose said:

i think it's the production, the beat is fast but the lyrics and her cadence is quite slow and dreamy, a weird contrast

a weird but interesting contrast

[ARTPOPe 9,896]

17 minutes ago, ajmsamuel said:

is there an actual snippet? i see Lota of fans askin for that song, is that that good? 

Spoiler

Sorry to the flowers and the trees
And the fish poisoned in the seven seas
The private jet, the cool on the 'Gram
40 pairs of Nikes you’re the man

Leave me alone with my luck and money
And I don’t want to know that it’s a time bomb, honey
Let me enjoy my lack of trouble
And nothing’s going to burst my money bubble

I just wanna forget
How ****ed up is our planet

Laughing all the time, driving in the sunshine
Pink convertible, living in the free world
We’re so ****ing blind, praying we’ll be fine
We keep laughing all the time, driving in the sunshine

Let them eat cake and keep our-

Personally it's not my favourite and I preferred Happy Loner from the snippet, but oh well.

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The ambitious “Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land” is another kind of calibration. “The way that we treat people is linked to our connection to the planet,” she said while discussing its second single, the propulsive “Purge the Poison.” (It also has a remix featuring *** Riot.) “It’s all tied to a degrading of femininity. Across this album, there’s such a yearning for a focus on the feminine.”

“This is going to sound taboo, but I was drawn to the fact that Marina’s a woman, and I’m one of the only female producers in the business, and we spoke each other’s language,” Decilveo said in a phone interview. “She’s the real deal and, in this strange pop market, it’s refreshing to have somebody with lyrics that are going against the grain.”



The second half of “Ancient Dreams” is more inward-focused — a breakup album —  including “Highly Emotional People,” a delicate ballad interrogating male stoicism, and the plangent closer, “Goodbye.” During the pandemic, Diamandis split from her longtime boyfriend, Jack Patterson of the British electro-pop band Clean Bandit, with whom she shared a house and several cats.

“On ‘Goodbye’ I was crying so hard as I was writing it that I actually couldn’t record the demo properly,” she said during a stroll near her home. Her candy-striped sundress accommodated the stifling April weather, and she covered her inky black hair with a straw hat. “Songwriting is the best cure,” she added.
 

“It’s the closest cousin in the discography to that first record,” Davies said. “It’s her most indie, alternative record yet.” It’s also her strongest political statement, and for that she partly credits this strange and terrifying past year. “I would hope people don’t hear it as preaching,” she said. “The pandemic allowed a lot of us to step back and look at what kind of lives we’re living, and nothing feels sustainable.”

Diamandis already noticed pushback online to some of her positions on current issues. “I like seeing comments like, ‘She used capitalism to get where she is,’ because it does make me think about my own place,” she continued. “But we’re all allowed to challenge the system that we’re in.”

From: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/arts/music/marina-ancient-dreams-in-a-modern-land.html

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One week y'all 

Song lengths:

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Welp, it's only a matter of time now... 
 

 

[nightadieu 4,060]

17 minutes ago, ARTPOPe said:

Welp, it's only a matter of time now... 
 

 

How does that keep happening 

[jimmytimestep 2,157]

9 minutes ago, nightadieu said:

How does that keep happening 

It really is amazing isn’t it?
if I were at a label I’d push so hard to delay physical releases by a week or something

[ajmsamuel 1,249]

50 minutes ago, ARTPOPe said:

Welp, it's only a matter of time now... 
 

 

im sad, mad, and happy at the same time