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I've been loving this album over the past few weeks:

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11 Bubblegum Bitch

10 Primadonna

08 Lies

09 Homewrecker

05 Starring Role

07 The State Of Dreaming

09 Power & Control

06 Living Dead

08 Teen Idle

05 Valley Of The Dolls

10 Hypocrates

10 Fear and Loathing

08 Radioactive

06 Sex Yeah

05 Lonely Hearts Club

08 Buy The Stars

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Lovely album, been addicted to it recently. I've got the Family Jewels as well and while I think that had higher highs, this is better overall!

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Buy The Stars clearly should've been included in the main version of the album. Ugh.
A very, VERY inferior Numb.

my rate would be:

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09 Bubblegum Bitch

11 Primadonna

10 Lies

10 Homewrecker

09 Starring Role

10 The State Of Dreaming

09 Power & Control

07 Living Dead

10 Teen Idle

09 Valley Of The Dolls

10 Hypocrates

08 Fear and Loathing

10 Radioactive

06 Sex Yeah

10 Lonely Hearts Club

08 Buy The Stars

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many tracks have grown on me since the previous rate, particularly 'teen idle'! beautiful song. :wub:

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Ooh. A rate I can jump on the bandwagon for...

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(Oh and I use an "11" just to differentiate and point out what my very favourite is)

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For now it'll look something like this...

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08.5 Bubblegum Bitch

10.0 Primadonna

09.0 Lies

09.0 Homewrecker

08.0 Starring Role

10.0 The State Of Dreaming

07.5 Power & Control

07.0 Living Dead

07.0 Teen Idle

08.5 Valley Of The Dolls

09.0 Hypocrates

10.0 Fear and Loathing

08.0 Radioactive

07.0 Sex Yeah

11.0 Lonely Hearts Club

08.0 Buy The Stars

It's growing on me as a whole. Although it gets weaker near the end. Radioactive sounds much better now - I think I'm now hearing it in comparison to the rest of the tracks from this era instead of her whole career.

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There's nothing as awful as Girls or Hermit the Frog on it. Lots of 7/10 tracks and nothing I'm going to get the thrills from it that I got out of Numb, Oh No, Obsessions, Guilty, Mowgli's Road, Rootless.

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Like Nelly Furtado's career, maybe this is the second album of many albums of different styles.

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I think the verse of Sexy Yeah is my favourite part of the whole thing.

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my favourite artwork of the era so far, actually! still not the best single choice though.

At this stage I think this most certainly IS the best choice. Radio friendly, immediate chorus. If Marina wishes to remain relevant to the charts she must conform entirely (for the meantime)
I think it's a fantastic choice - I don't think it's exactly going to set the charts alight but her music rarely does. This song's very instant and twinkly and I pretty much fell in love with it on one listen.
Why do people dislike this as a single choice? It's not in-your-face electropop like the rest of the album, specifically "Primadonna" (which got annoying incredibly quickly for me) and it has a nice, relaxing chorus. My only negative would be that the first chorus comes in a bit too soon into the song, but the video's nice and I think it'll at the very least be a top forty hit (specifically #37, continuing on from the 12-26-38 / 11-25-? streak she has going on :lol:)
I really like the video. I can't make out any plot whatsoever but I love the colours and I think it's excellently shot. Assuming that's the radio edit, it's a bit clunky in places. The ending being so sudden especially annoyed me - I don't think a few seconds added onto the end would really be that problematic! I don't know how this will do as a single but then I don't believe there's a single smash on the album anyway.
while it's quite simple, I think the video works really well with the song. she looks very pretty too. :wub:

I think the video is incredibly dull and I'm not sure it works at all well with the song.

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I do like Power & Control but it's difficult to listen to it musically without imagining I'm playing an egyptian themed level of a 90s platform game.

Agreed with Dandy about the video being boring and uninspired.

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"Power & Control" is one of my favourites from the album though so I'm glad it was made a single.

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