Electra Heart

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Standard artwork

## Singles

1. Radioactive
Released: 23 Sept 2011
2. Homewrecker
Released: 10 Feb 2012
3. Primadonna
Released: 20 Mar 2012
4. Bubblegum Bitch
Released: 28 April 2012
5. Power & Control
Released: 20 Jul 2012
6. Teen Idle
Released: 10 Oct 2012
7. How to Be a Heartbreaker
Released: 7 Dec 2012
8. The State of Dreaming
Released: 2 Mar 2013
9. Lies
Released: 10 Jul 2013

Deluxe artwork

## Singles

1. Radioactive
Released: 23 Sept 2011
2. Homewrecker
Released: 10 Feb 2012
3. Primadonna
Released: 20 Mar 2012
4. Bubblegum Bitch
Released: 28 April 2012
5. Power & Control
Released: 20 Jul 2012
6. Teen Idle
Released: 10 Oct 2012
7. How to Be a Heartbreaker
Released: 7 Dec 2012
8. The State of Dreaming
Released: 2 Mar 2013
9. Lies
Released: 10 Jul 2013

**Electra Heart** is the second studio album by the Welsh singer/songwriter Marina, with a tracklist of 12 songs, one less than her original debut album, The Family Jewels. It was released on April 27, 2012.

### Electra Heart: The Archetypes

**The Archetypes** is a multi-media project, consisting of a photoshoot, a video series and a Tumblr, created by MARINA for her sophomore album Electra Heart.

## Background

The idea of basing the songs around 'Electra Heart' and four archetypes originated from the time Marina spent travelling in the United States after the release of her debut album, The Family Jewels. She explains:

I was starting to think about our Tumblr generation, and how photos appear on Tumblr and people become almost like mini-stars of the internet, and you don't know who the hell they are - they're just anonymous faces. So I started to take photos, and make an effort to look completely different in each one, in different hotels and apartments all across America when I was travelling. And it just started to build from that. It was more the prima donna archetype at the beginning, really; I was reading a lot of books like *Hollywood Babylon*, focusing more on the gossipy, suicidal side of the '30s and '40s in Hollywood. That's how it started, and then it grew into a real project.
The visuals were inspired by Cindy Sherman, who Marina referenced in The Archetypes (song), and the writings of Chuck Palahniuk and Dorothy Parker. Discussing the visual side in an interview with MusicOMH:

One of the key things about the whole Electra Heart project is the visuals and artwork, and there is a clear theme developed throughout all the imagery, a theme of faded glamour and stylised grandeur with Marina prominent throughout. It is her direction and influence that runs through all the imagery, she says.

I just took a lot of care with the visual side of things. I know what I want this time and I have a very specific idea of who I am as an artist and what I want to portray myself as.
There will be more videos to come that expand even further on the story of Electra Heart. The album is more of an all encompassing multi-media project than a mere 12 track pop record.

With the whole Archetypes project, I know a lot of people who hear my music won’t find out about that, but I think it is really essential to the whole project and there are going to be more videos coming out in the future, just little home made ones. But that's what builds up the bulk of the message, and the whole vision.
## Music videos

The official music videos made for Marina's sophomore album belong to a video series *The Archetypes*. It is a multimedia project consisting of fifteen parts that are either homemade or professional music videos. Three of them are interludes with spoken parts, among which *Daddy* is Marina reading a poem by Sylvia Plath. An interlude *The Archetypes* includes a quote by a Russian psychologist Lev S. Vygotsky. An interlude *Su-Barbie-A* is deemed connected to an official track on the record, *Valley of the Dolls*, while *Daddy* is thought to be connected to *Hypocrates*.

* Part 1: Fear and Loathing
* Part 2: Radioactive\*
* Part 3: The Archetypes (interlude)
* Part 4: Homewrecker\*
* Part 5: Primadonna\*
* Part 5: Su-Barbie-A (interlude)
* Part 6: Bubblegum Bitch\*
* Part 7: Power & Control\*
* Part 8: How to Be a Heartbreaker\*
* Part 9: Sex Yeah
* Part 10: E.V.O.L
* Part 11: Teen Idle\*
* Part 12: The State of Dreaming\*
* Part 13: Daddy (interlude)
* Part 14: Lies\*
* Part 15: Electra Heart

Additionally, videos were uploaded for *Starring Role*, *Lies*, *Homewrecker* and *Primadonna* acoustic versions as well as *Teen Idle* live performance.

## Singles

"Radioactive""Homewrecker""Primadonna""Bubblegum Bitch""Power & Control""Teen Idle""How to Be a Heartbreaker""The State of Dreaming""Lies"

## Charts

 Homewrecker
 Bubblegum Bitch
 Primadonna
 Power & Control
 Teen Idle
 How to Be a Heartbreaker
 The State of Dreaming
 Lies