The term “Cantissimo” in Italian refers to loud and expressive performance. Marina wraps the word on her sixth album Princess of Power to “Cuntissimo”, writes off her ex, smokes Vogues in Italy, and is looking for a Thelma to her Louise. With the predecessor Ancient Dreams in A Modern Land, Marina showed an almost activist attitude – with lyrics that tell of the consequences of capitalism, environmental degradation and patriarchy. And while socially, everything is valid, they quickly run the risk of flattening in the pop framework.
Princess of Power concentrates again on the age ego from the times when the 39-year-old Welsh woman still operated under Marina and the Diamonds: the femme fatale, which is essentially lovable underdog. Marina seasons her danceable drama pop with a pinch of disco Synth and puts him on a cream crown from reggae fusion and 8-bit sounds. In doing so, she lets female archetypes revive with which she has been playing in Cindy-Sherman-Escher Manier since her debut.
Like the Sad Girl from the Internet, which secured the hearts of all lonely teenagers and tweens in the early 10s. Many a song slips among the deliberately dramatic strings. Anyone who has not yet been on board will not get in here either. But if you felt the Tumblr era, you feel the impulse to reactivate your own blog.
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