Ashley

This needs to be released already. Her first album has never left my "regular play". You can't have a pre lash / party / after party without Shove It, Creator and Unstoppable. And then Lights Out and I'm A Lady are always good for a sunday afternoon. Santogold sounds just as fresh as it did when it came out.

This is only doing well because of the performance and the ridiculous pregnancy reveal. I think this will soon lose momentum. Countdown, End Of Time and I Was Here are the remaining singles on this album.

She must do - I really can't see Radio 1 playlisting this otherwise. A bit like when they playlisted Call Your Girlfriend cuz Robyn was due in for a live lounge.

He looks like such a doof in the video. Hopefully all the idiotic girls and middle aged women that voted for him on xfactor will realise he's just some fugly douche bag and not buy into this.

I can't tell whether Timbaland is a genius for doing a Moombahton track...or whether this is just terrible. Pitbull is actually bearable in this song.

I agree... It sounds like the song was built around the idea of having a crescendo and everything else is just secondary.

I Just Wanna F just sounds like Pon De Floor via Guetta. It's not too bad actually.

I don't see this as selling out because I don't think it'll be a hit...I reckon it will do about as well as Hollywood. This feels like a really natural thing for Marina to do to me. She's constantly referencing popstars and pop culture in her songs that it seems quite fitting that she's releasing such a brazen pop song. Personally, I don't really like the 'dance' version (although it has grown a lot), but I'm loving the acoustic version. For me, the acoustic version shows that the only thing that separates the 'dance' version from the rest of her back catalog is the production.

The production of this is too euro dance for me. I'd have preferred it if the production was more sophisticated, it would've fit the lyrics and melody better. I reckon there will be some great remixes of this.

From the popjustice interview: Okay, well that’s like a really 70s thing, it’s set in the desert... I just think every artist always has something at the core of them that fascinates them and inspires them. In the beginning I had exactly the same thought - “oh God, I’m still inspired by America, I don’t want to make ‘Hollywood Pt II’”. And it’s not like that. I’m just really inspired by that topic and that culture and I think I always will be. It’s kind of like how every longterm artist always has a thread running through their image, or their lyrics, and that’s mine. America.

From the popjustice interview: "I’ve been working with Dr Luke, Stargate, and I’ve learned SO much."

She's not really abandoning Greg Kurstin, she only worked with him on one song which was recorded as a one off after the album was finished. The comments about the artwork are ridiculous in this thread. It's not meant to be some technical example of what people can do in photoshop, it's obviously trying to be reminiscent of those 70s American daytime tv programmes, hence the quality of the image, the crappy font and where it's placed. As for her working with Dr Luke and Stargate... it could be terrible but it could be pretty amazing too. I doubt she would go into recording with these types of producers without a clear idea of what she wanted to get out of them. And people are sort of making out like this is the Arctic Monkeys going to work with Dr Luke, but in reality ee're talking about Marina and she's so POP! She may be in the indie forum but IMO she's totally pop - her lyrics and melodies were especially pop. And she's someone who is obviously fascinated / obsessed with pop culture and pop stars - her old blog (which she deleted) included extensive ramblings about Shakira and Britney. It seems only natural that she would try out these producers, even as some sort of study of this culture, just as her lyrics study pop culture. And I was just listening to ET and the melody is something that I could totally imagine Marina singing. However, if this album turns into a Price Tag production, I will officially disown Marina.

I don't think anything is beating The Morning, Glass Table Girls, Wicked Games and The Party & The After Party, but I'd say The Birds 1 and Life Of The Party are up there with them. I'm really liking Rolling Stone as well, although there's part of me that just wants a massive beat to kick in half way through. The consistent quality across these two mixtapes/EPs/albums/whatever is unbelievable.

I'm actually more excited for this than Watch the Throne... Why is this download taking so long!!!

Just got back from seeing this and I loved it. The train crash was particularly brilliant. It reminded me of the opening scene of Lost with the plane crash.

Yeah, exactly. Lift Off is practically All Of The Lights Part 2.

Fear and Loathing is quite nice...it's kinda what I was expecting from Marina's second album though; more sophisticated production but the same pop sensibilities of TFJ. I'm more looking forward to the Stargate and Dr Luke tracks. There's quite a good chance they'll be terrible but no pre judgement.

Does anyone else feel like this album sounds more like Kanye feat. Jay Z? To me it sounds a lot like a Kanye album with Jay turning up here and there. Don't care though; it's amazing. I'm loving Murder to Excellence right now.

This album is just flawless.

I thought Hilary was great: Spoke sense, gave good advice and was pretty fearsome when she got angry.

The thing is; I thought the chorus was alright at first but then I realised it is one of those faux-epic choruses. You think it's a good chorus but then you realise there's no actual melody and it's just someone doing some long notes. Seriously, the best bit of this song is the Dario G pre chorus.

1.Bleeding Love 2.Take A Bow 3.Better In Time 4.I Got You 5.Forgive Me I think that is also an accurate portrayal of Leona's top 5 best songs.

I love the production of this song. It's such a nice balance of the current dance trend and Leona's organic balladry. However, the verses are pretty poor...the vocals sound like she's trying to enunciate because everyone knows she's really a mumbly and the melody is so monotonous. The melody of Fade Into Darkness is so much better than Collide. Leona should've sung Fade Into Darkness but added the pre chorus from Collide and that would've been the perfect song...because the prechorus in Collide is easily the best bit.

I'm looking forward to it even more now. I was worried that I was going to like a song with Bruno Mars in it.

Top 40... if it's lucky. It's too subtle for today's chart audience even though it's a nice song.