10 Iconic Marina Songs 🎶

Marina, formerly known as Marina and the Diamonds, is a truly unique artist whose work combines motherly wit, vulnerability, majestic pop hooks, and boldness. Over the course of her career, she has majorly influenced both the music world and Tumblr world, crafting personas, aesthetics, and songs that are as introspective and socially aware as they are infectiously catchy. Her distinctively operatic and powerful voice, clever lyrics, songwriting talent, and exploration of themes related to the human condition makes her music stand out in an often-amorphous pop world, further bolstered by her songs' recurring popularity on TikTok and social media.

From the release of her debut album, The Family Jewels, Marina immediately stood out as an artist with a voice and vision unlike anyone else in the pop world, quickly cementing herself as an icon with lines like:
"Oh, my god, you look just like Shakira
No, no, you're Catherine Zeta!"
"Actually, my name's Marina"

"I Am Not a Robot" and "Hollywood" demonstrated her nascent ability to combine sweeping pop hooks with commentary, while songs like "Oh No" became major pop anthems. By the time Marina released her sophomore album Electra Heart, she saw massive success with pop perfection songs that explored themes of love, fame, and heartbreak through the lens of a constructed alter ego called Electra Heart. Many who saw this album as a mainstream pop album failed to see the irony and underlying message undergirding the album. Her follow-up album Froot saw her shedding this persona and taking on a more introspective tone, though of course not letting listeners forget she has a voice and songwriting ability to be reckoned with.

After Froot, Marina fans desperately clamored for her return and they were later rewarded with the biggest comeback song of her career, "Baby." This song would later rack up over 300 million views on YouTube, her most successful song ever. Love + Fear followed, a double album exploring the duality of human nature. Her next album Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land showed Marina's masterful blend of social commentary and pop. Her captivating voice, songwriting, charisma, visuals, authenticity, and aesthetics have ensured Marina has a rapidly devoted fanbase. The recent popularity of songs like "Oh No," "Hermit the Frog," "Bubblegum B####," and "Primadonna" show that her timeless pop music isn't abating in popularity anytime soon, influencing musicians like Billie Eilish in the process.

10 Songs are NOT enough for Marina but here is just one curation we've made to help introduce people to Marina's mesmerizing pop world, not ranked of course:
0:00 Hollywood (2010) - The Family Jewels
0:07 Baby (2018) - What Is Love? (Clean Bandit featuring Marina and Luis Fonsi)
0:13 Froot (2015) - Froot
0:19 Are You Satisfied? (2010) - The Family Jewels
0:24 Hollywood (2010) - The Family Jewels
0:30 Bubblegum Bitch (2012) - Electra Heart
0:33 Teen Idle (2012) - Electra Heart
0:37 How to Be a Heartbreaker (2012) - Electra Heart
0:44 I Am Not a Robot (2010) - The Family Jewels
0:52 Oh No! (2010) - The Family Jewels
0:55 Primadonna (2012) - Electra Heart

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