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my god Marina i love you so much. it feels like youre inside my brain. thank you thank you so so so much for making your music and for being so inspiring. you are my biggest inspiration ever and if i were to be anyone else i would want to be you cause youre fucking perfect.
loads and loads of love from sweden! (please come here again soon. östersund was amaing <3)
xx

"I saw a simple group made up of many people who had the same hearts."

that is so beautiful.. and I often believe we all have, at least kind of, the same hearts <3

That was...beautiful :')

You speak out things, packed in so beautiful words, noone is able to say things as good as you!


This makes me proud to be a diamond :)

thank you, so much, for making the music you make and speaking the words in your heart. my infatuation with you has become full blown love, and your music articulates all the feelings and thoughts i have that i couldn't form into anything cohesive myself. you are beautiful, inside and out, and i'm eager to for more of your music, and you. xo

Marina, really appreciate this message and think you can sell music without selling out to American propaganda. You're absolutely talented and fashionable - people will naturally draw to you. Being an American myself, I know our culture is full of lazy thinkers and terrible lyrics, but you're a breathe of fresh air. Keep doing what you're doing - wish you the best in your endeavors.

Good♥
Never ever sing just to be popular~!
We should always be careful who we pretend to be, because that is who we really are♥

Hang on ... let's be honest. I don't think I've ever seen Marina *not* look glamorous. She could wear an outfit made of old tesco bags stuck together with parcel tape and she would still look glamorous. Is that not the truth?

Still, the post made me think back to when I was in my mid teens (how long ago does that feel?!), before Baywatch's Pammie arrived on my TV screen and before Loaded was even a twinkle in James Brown's eye. To a time before the vacuum-packed Barbie look was de rigeur.

When post-rave superclub/ibiza culture arrived mid-nineties the look was basically about one thing (sex). Hip-hop videos went mainstream a little after this. Since then, pretty much everything has succumbed to this. Made me think just how unsexy it all is now (ok being honest it's still a bit sexy for lots of the boys out there). But it really is just boring. Sex is the subtext of the u.s.p. for everything now. Marketing budgets are 98% 'hot girls' and 2% inspired/original ideas.

So the funny thing about Marina saying she isn't glamorous is that she is **SO** glamorous. But the thing that's wonderful about it is that it's unabashed natural unaugmented femininity. And as much as Marina is outspoken she is still totally feminine ... and that combination of beguiling personality, lively intellect, savage (let's face it) wit, and (it cannot be denied) godesslike curviness is about as glamorous as you'll ever see anywhere. Period.

Forget Reality TV ... just look around you. There are real flesh-and-blood not-plastic-coated people very near you right now. They can actually talk, laugh and do humorous impressions (some of them can even juggle if you ask nicely). Go on, put down your copy of Heat, shut down MarieClaire.com, get out there and connect with someone.

You are honestly so remarkably inspirational x

Marina, being able to live in this world, with all the positive and negative events that usually occur to many of us, I am truly happy to say that you make my day a little bit more interesting...oh no! I mean...fun! Really, I do not expect you to understand what it is that I want to say, hell, even I don't know that. But if you are reading this, I just wanted to let you know that I have never before been so influenced by an artist and the fact that you are working hard for something you love is amazing in my eyes!

Thank you for being you!
And now Swedish: JAG ÄLSKAR DIG!

// Carl from Sweden

And just because I can talk an Eskimo out of his snow suit in a snowstorm doesn't mean I'm always right. In the end it bears down to values. If you like to be genuine, be genuine. If you want fame, be famous. Don't hate me because I'm one of the few people who can see the nihilistic truth, love the fact that it's okay to want something just because you want it, that desire can be its own justification.

I think it's just a precaution so people will have a reason to like her, as if they'd need one once they heard Family Jewels. Hollywood girls use their looks but I think she's sort of doing the same thing with authenticity. Everyone is looking for an effective way to get on top.

One driven enough to get a record deal is certain to be driven by both money and fame, probably not exclusively but surely significantly. As I said once in a LiveStudio interview observation note blog, as long as one is honest about their dishonesty, authenticity - to me - seems relatively intact. Who gets the prize for being most authentic anyway? So what, 50 years from now some people sitting around a pub could all agree she was the most legitimate recording artist? 50 years after that, then what? It's just not worth sacrificing the moment for the burden of self-righteousness, not to me. I want what she wants, whatever shape or form that may fashion. What drew me never was about her authenticity, more who she was a person and her mind and what she does with it in the music. She's rare. She felt like I tend to feel. I couldn't believe it, and the way the music reflects this as a whole, speaks for itself.

What matters to me, and I'd bet my life most of humanity is the same way, is the feeling. I don't care if artists hire someone to create the melody, or even if they invented the words themselves (though that'd be nice if one wanted to feel a connection to the artist), or whatever. If I like your music and I like you, there's a good chance I'm going to buy. Would it be more authentic to just give away music? Probably. But that's not how the world works. If you want to function normally in society, you must earn money. Corporations do go a bit far and want money just for the conquest of being the biggest. Ma-reen-uh is hardly comparable to that. She might inquire into who might be trying to profit from her name without her permission, but that's just good business sense. It's not perfect PR, but it's good business sense. She's not siphoning tax money. She's being given pay for creating a product that people want to buy. If we apply ourselves, I'm sure most of us could be so lucky to some degree.

That being said, what I really want is for her to wake up everyday with a soft smile and just feeling totally amazing, peaceful, and contented - almost in love with herself for everything she's done so far. As long as I like what she's about, and I do, and sense my support means something to her underneath it all, I'll always want to protect and be a part of it. This is a good place she's made, and whether congregating here or potentially one day at a concert, I'll always love the feeling of connectedness bound among those who are pulled to her. I think any one of us would want to defend Marina from anything unsavory directed at her for this reason. The music and the past and our struggles mean something to us, they help to define our personalities and who we are. They define our lives so any way she choose to express that similarity to us is entirely her choice in my view. She should be free. She sets such a good example to everybody already, living life chiefly on her terms like this.

I'm looking forward to the America campaign and I'm saying this because I'm prepared to brave the rough terrain in the rare event she would decide to resort to low blows. I don't want her to think she would lose support if ever she decided to use a new method to better herself. I think the important thing to me is for her to win. I see my something about myself in aspects of who she is, so her success says good things about me. As long as she never loses sight of what really matters, being true to herself and being happy, I'll approve. So there's my honest truth.

OMFG - you are so right about those Cheetos - it's on Youtube so it must be true. More below

"I know exactly what I want"

Fripp - worth looking up, a scarily intense man who can carry on with interviews with such focus he does not err or umm once over 10 minutes .or ever Some of his work looking at starting in the music business is on yotube.Weird. He seems to interview himself almost. Having seen his crafty guitarists' work live he is a sound teacher who has worked with some musical legends and makes a living, keeping musical integrity, but perhaps not making megabucks, ..hit albums but not hit singles. I just love his Wimbourne drawl anyway. He is a guy who knows exactly what he wants with supreme drive.

Daniel Levitin -

His books on music and its neurological effects may appeal given your professed interest in psychology.
"World in 6 Songs" and "This is your brain on music : understanding a human obsession" both are accessible and worth a few minutes/hours whiling away the time in hotels. Nominated for this and that.

"it will be to bring back true meaning to pop"

Green Gartside is worth looking at in this as his trilogy on the 80s did just that with a richness of meaning in his lyrics and superb production values. He came from not so far from you and his writing, maybe over clever at times - how many know what the Tupamaros are, how many read Derrida? - pondered the nature love songs, of pop itself and his role within it. I'd say he succeeded though they were not to everyone's liking. Great voice though - quite unique. Much sampled work. Due for a cover -lol.


"you can't eat Cheetos forever"

It's as well you warned us as there are crazy gangs./swarms of these - it's true ...in SF there was a huge ball which rolled down the hill and just squished a whole family in their wake.

be ever watchful for those pesky Cheetos critters... they could be grouping anywhere!! theorangeunderground youtube channel has the lowdown.

ever thoughtful

I started as myself, who else could I be?
Then came the influence of society.
Ever since then I have never quite been happy.
Still trying to get back to the real me.

Idk, just came to mind. :-)

Argue for your limitations and soon enough they are your´s

"It always seems impossible until its done." - Nelson Mandela

I meant "peaceful people with candles" ;)

Twenty Years ago in East Germany...

peaceful people with vs a heavily armed dictatorship

...and who has won?

There is always hope.

"it is the truth that you cannot change the world. It is too big and people do not care enough to make a change, en masse."

Tell that to the people of Greece, or Thailand, or the many recent international attempts to break the Gaza blockade. They seem to have other ideas. Mass movements are our only hope, but nobody said it would be easy.

This is the most inspiring thing i have ever read....you are my absolute idol never stop being yourself :) xxxx

JUST WANTED TO SAY- I READ ALL OF YOUR MESSAGES. YOU ARE ALL SO INTELLIGENT AND THOUGHTFUL. AND I AM SO, SO PROUD AND LUCKY!!!

M X

Sorry for the capitals