- Wow.
- Well, she can sing.
♪ (rock intro) ♪
- (FBE) So today, we're gonna have you read some lyrics
from top songs all by one artist and have you tell us
the meaning and what you think, then after, you'll get to listen
to the songs you read and tell us what you think.
- Okay. It's easier to try to analyze
what they said by reading it than listen to it.
- I enjoy this, because it makes me think.
- It's more like reading a note or a book or something.
It's like, "Oh, I get to analyze it."
where sometimes you don't even hear the words.
- When I was growing up, my parents said
"How can you listen to that music?"
and now, I'm a senior and I look at some of this
heavy metal rap stuff and I'm going,
"That's not music. That's noise."
- "Soon as I touch down in old L.A., he said 'Oh my God. You look
just like Shakira.'
- "'No, no, you're Catherine Zeta!.'
'Actually, my name's Marina.'"
- I don't know anybody who's named Marina,
as far as singing goes.
- When she gets here in L.A., whether at the airport
or wherever she is, people are mistaking her
for somebody famous.
- She's like, "No, I'm here. It's me."
- It's maybe a person who hasn't achieved that amount
of fame yet, where she's just a normal looking person.
- "Hollywood infected your brain. You wanted kissing in the rain.
I've been living in a movie scene, puking American dreams.
I'm obsessed with the mess that's America."
- "You wanted kissing in the rain." ♪ Just singing in the rain ♪
That's what I thought of there.
- Everybody that comes to the U.S. and they're expecting
what's the picture. In reality, they don't find it.
- Whoever this person is, coming into Hollywood,
was expecting something like Singing in the Rain
and really want to be in a movie,
but it's more of a mess.
- "Primadonna girl, yeah. All I ever wanted was the world."
Well that seems reasonable to me. "I can't help that I need it all.
The primadonna life, the rise and fall."
- "You say that I'm kinda difficult, but it's always someone
else's fault. Got you wrapped
around my finger, babe. You can count on me
to misbehave."
- Oh, she's saying that she's a primadonna.
Okay, and she's the one that wants everything.
- "You can count on me to misbehave."
Take me as I am.
- That's not really new. You know, some of the old stars
were pretty racy too.
- "Would you do anything for me? Buy a big diamond ring for me?
Would you get down on your knees for me?
Pop that pretty question, right now baby."
- "Would you do anything for me?" Okay, I'm putting you to the test,
dude, right now.
- She's putting a lot of pressure on that person,
Asking things like that, you turn people off.
- Well, that's a big thing to ask and I hope she's finding
the right person to do that.
- Just to be wild and going out and partying all night
and all that is not really gonna make you happy
the rest of your life, but a good relationship
has some real benefits.
- "Got a figure like a pin-up, got a figure like a doll.
Don't care if you think I'm dumb. I don't care at all."
- "Candy bear, sweetie pie, I wanna be adored.
I'm the girl you'd die for."
- She's pretty full of herself.
- Sounds like she's one of the Barbie girls.
She doesn't care if people think she's stupid or--
she doesn't care about that, because she's gonna use her looks.
- "I'll chew you up and spit you out,
'cause that's what young love is all about."
- "So pull me closer and kiss me hard.
I'm gonna pop your bubblegum heart."
Wow, she has some serious attitude.
- There's some truth to that. I was in love several times
and had my heart broken several times.
- That's nice. I kinda like it.
Any time that a lyric gives you a picture,
that means it's working.
- Now that's kinda mean. Fool around with them
and let them fall in love with her and then, "See you."
- "Girls, we do whatever it will take,
'cause girls don't want we don't want our hearts
to break in two."
- "So it's better to be fake. Can't risk losing
in love again, babe."
- I just don't agree with that. It seems like she's been in love
before and got her heart cracked really good
and is sore about it.
- You get hurt and you get more cautious,
and then you say, "Are you gonna get
on your knees and propose to me?"
- This is a pretty tough woman and she knows how to risk
whatever it is it takes to get what she needs.
- "This is how to be a heartbreaker. Boys, they like a little danger."
- "We'll get him falling for a stranger, a player.
Singin' I lo-lo-love you."
- She's just playing games. You have to just act
hard to get and make them fall in love with you.
- It's sending out a message that if--
this is the way to get what you want.
- "Living la dolce vita. Life couldn't get much sweeter.
Don't you give me a reason that it's not the right season."
- "Babe, I love you a lot. I'll give you all I've got.
Yeah, you know that it's true. I've been saving all
my summers for you, like froot."
- It's beautiful. It sounds like fun.
- She likes the guy. That's about all I get.
- When I was young, dumb, and stupid, I thought
having a bunch of girlfriends-- I thought that was
top of the world, but then reality sets in
and you've gotta live.
- (FBE) Do you have any idea whose lyrics you've been reading?
- No.
- Well, it's not Dinah Shore.
- I do not, but I'm sure she's somebody famous
and everybody loves her.
- (FBE) So, these were lyrics to songs from Marina
and the Diamond's repertoire. - I don't know it.
- Don't know. I've never heard of them.
- (FBE) So, in June, 2016, Marina said she's gonna
be taking a little break from music for a while
because she feels it will be helpful for her creatively.
Many people think it is partially to distance herself
from the character she created in some of these songs you heard.
It's called Electra Heart. - Oh, well she's thinking ahead.
- In her lyrics, I see some progression in her personally,
especially the one when she starts getting a little more serious.
- (FBE) Let's play you the songs you read.
- Yeah.
- ♪ Soon as I touch down in old LA ♪
♪ He said Oh my God You look just like Shakira ♪
♪ No no, you're Catherine Zeta ♪
♪ Actually, my name's Marina ♪ - (laughs)
- ♪ Actually, my name's Marina ♪ - I'm Marina.
- ♪ Infected in your brain You wanted kissing in the rain ♪
- I could see people sing along to that.
- It's easy listening to. I just don't--
now that I know what the lyrics are, it's like, "eh."
- ♪ I'm obsessed with the mess that's America ♪
- It's okay.
- It's bright, it's boppy, it's cheery.
- ♪ Primadonna girl, yeah All I ever wanted was the world ♪
♪ I can't help but I need it all ♪ - Yeah, I like that.
- ♪ Primadonna life the rise and fall ♪
- I like the other one better.
- ♪ You say that I'm kinda difficult ♪
- Wow.
- Well, she can sing.
- ♪ Someone else's fault ♪ - She's got a good voice.
- ♪ My finger, babe You can count on me ♪
♪ to misbehave Primadonna girl ♪
♪ Would you do anything for me? Buy a big diamond ring ♪
- (singing along) ♪ For me ♪
- ♪ Would you get down on your knees for me? ♪
♪ Pop the pretty question right now, baby ♪
- It's a little bit raw.
- That was a perfect arrangement for that song.
- ♪ Got a figure like a pin-up Got a figure like a doll ♪
♪ Don't care if you think I'm dumb I don't care at all ♪
- (singing along) ♪ Bubblegum bitch da da da da ♪
- ♪ I'm the girl you'd die for ♪ - I'm the girl you'd die for.
- ♪ Spit you out 'cause that's what young love ♪
- This sounds more like a commercial.
- ♪ So pull me closer and kiss me hard ♪
♪ I'm gonna pop your bubblegum heart ♪
- She has an ego.
- Her music kinda takes you back to some of the music
back in the '80s.
- ♪ Girls, we do whatever it will take ♪
♪ 'Cause girls don't want, ♪ - Little more soul in here.
- ♪ We don't want our hearts to break ♪
- Hearts to break. Yeah, this is a good one.
I like this one.
- ♪ So it's better to be fake can't risk losing ♪
♪ In love again, babe ♪ - Definitely, she put feeling
into this song.
- (popping sounds)
- ♪ This is how to be a heartbreaker ♪
- Yeah, I'm liking this.
- ♪ A little danger We'll get him falling ♪
♪ For a stranger, a player Singing I lo-lo-love you ♪
- She's been burned. She's learning life isn't so easy.
- What she's really saying here is we really don't want
our heart broken.
- ♪ Living la dolce vita Life couldn't get much sweeter ♪
- Yeah.
- ♪ Don't you give me a reason That it's not the right season ♪
- This one's really flat.
- ♪ A lot I'll give you all I've got ♪
♪ Yeah, you know that it's true I've been saving all ♪
♪ My summers for you I've been saving all ♪
♪ My summers for you Like froot ♪
- Wow, that's a pretty song.
- It's almost like the evolution. This last song was more
of a maturity.
- (FBE) Overall, with all the music, what'd you think?
- It's not my most favorite thing of all time
that you've played for me.
- Like I said, she takes me back to some of the songs
and the beat of the '80s. Especially the girl bands.
- This girl is really a terrific, wonderful, natural fruit.
(laughs) Organic. But I'm expecting this girl
just to fly when she comes back. Just to fly.
- Thanks for watching us break down Marina and the Diamonds
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- Hey guys, I'm Katie, a React Channel producer.
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