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Hopefully IANAR gets the epic video it always deserved. The original is lovely in an artsy fartsy way but it does no justice to the song.

First listen - Meh Second listen - Love it. The video is great.

Yeah, that underscore makes all the difference.

I Am Not A Robot is the best choice for a single. There's nothing as single-sounding as that on the album. Are You Satisfied is great but it's too much of a grower and that's not what Marina needs right now.

Full video: t4r6RWYzyuE Meh...nothing spesh but it's pretty nice. I like the harmonica bits.

Agree. Numb is just one of the best songs EVER. I feel that from Hermit the Frog the album becomes amazing. It shows what Marina can do when playing around with different sounds and more unconventional songs.

I love that part. According to Marina, Hollywood is a song she wrote 2 years ago and I think that part shows her inexperience at song writing but it makes it much more endearing to me.

#3 on iTunes album chart. The Family Jewels is quite a nice song.

No no no to Shampain. I remember when there were rumours it was the first single. It's not terrible but I think it's just one of those songs that doesn't really work.

Video preview: dnzHLkA1490

Shakira and Nadal in the video: http://i50.tinypic.com/344cd92.jpg Longer freemasons mix: http://www.djcity.com/digital/shakira-gyps...mix---12001.htm

A bit of Gitana leaked but it's quite hard to get hold of...it keeps getting removed from youtube. Hopefully this one stays up: 1TokK6dxN_Y The Freemasons have remixed this and it's actually really good. I'm thinking this could be a hit now. Radio 1 will probably playlist the remix and I'm hoping Radio 2 play the original. We'll have to see...I still think releasing this over MITT is a mistake. I think the label already agreed the singles even before the album came out. You can hear the Freemasons mix here and the Radio Edit of Gypsy which has a few added beats and synths: http://www.tophitru.com/hottracks.shtml?so...amp;f=&sh=2

I think there needs to be a recurrent rule like America, where songs of a certain age can't chart but their progress is still tracked.

Are You Satisfied is such a grower. At first I was like "meh" but now I think it's brilliant. The songs that I don't really like are Shampaign and The Outsider. It's like Marina trying to be POP whereas on the other songs her sound (however you want to categorise it) seems much more natural.

The reason I don't like this is because it sounds like someone's idea of what an "alternative female" should sound like, but in 2004. Oh, and Chipmunk. What a tool.

I still maintain this is the best version of Girls: 1yY6CwUMqZ8

Numb is more epic than I could've ever hoped for. I'm so happy at the moment. I already know I'm going to walk to work tomorrow with this in my ears and being barely able to surpress going "SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII - IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII - IIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNEE"

Nice find. It's only 128kbps but it's better than the mp3 I had before. I hadn't been able to find the final version.

It's just as saccharine as Owl City but without any decent melody to make you warm to it.

Gitana should be out Feb 15th so at least that's some new Shakira to look forward to.

Wow, it's really bad. And I don't mean that in a "OMG I hate Simon Cowell" way...it's just truly terrible.

Is that Lady Gaga in the background?

Bought Hollywood twice; single mix and acoustic version.

Really dislike this. The hook is there but this just doesn't work in my opinion. The Graduate really disappointed me.

Top 10...I imagine this going the same way as Rabbit Heart.