MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS - POWER & CONTROL [Official Music Video] | ♡ ELECTRA HEART PART 6/11 ♡ 

"Yeah, you may be good looking but you're not a piece of art" SLAY

"Electra Heart is the antithesis of everything that I stand for. And the point of introducing her and building a whole concept around her is that she stands for the corrupt side of American ideology, and basically that's the corruption of yourself. My worst fear-that's anyone's worst fear-is losing myself and becoming a vacuous person. And that happens a lot when you're very ambitious." -Marina and the Diamonds discussing Electra Heart, the album's titular character.

most underrated music video ever

"A human vulnerability doesn't mean that I am weak" I screamed

A human vulnerability doesn't mean that I am weak

I have many favorite artists but I always come back to Marina

The shoulder dance she did at 2:48. I liked that. I wished she did it for a bit longer.

The fact that she's able to sing the exact opposite of what she actually believes while making sure that we DO indeed know what she believes is by itself a powerful, and difficult, achievement. I am very articulate with the English language myself, but I could never hope to do something this remarkable with words alone. She really is a lyrical genius... 💜💜

There may be a hot guy there but I'm still staring at Marina tbh

"You can't have peace without a war" God her lyrics are simple yet so smart and effective...

The fact that people aren't listen to this masterpiece in 2020 is sad.

This was taken from a genius comment on "Radioactive" Part 1: Fear and Loathing is Electra getting rid of who she once was. Perhaps it was after a breakup or something? This is not the first time, either. (been many people different times). Part 2: Radioactive is Electra meeting a new man who she feels like she's on top of the world with. Together, they are toxic and destructive (when you're around me, I'm radioactive) but again, she feels amazing with him. Also, she tries blonde. Perhaps her boyfriend enjoys it. Part 3: The Archetypes. Electra actually dyes her hair blonde and actually becomes Electra Heart, and is showing the world who she has become. Also, she is revealing that she and the man are now married (housewife). Part 4: Primadonna. Electra is sure of who she is now, and she gets into a whole "I don't need anyone but myself" place. She feels like the queen of the world. Part 5: SU-BARBIE-A, Electra's husband doesn't appreciate her telling him he's unneeded, and so they begin to argue constantly, as evidenced by the arguing in the background. Part 6: Power and Control. Electra's marriage is beginning to fall apart, and they both begin cheating on each other. It becomes a literal power play for both of them. Part 7: How To Be a Heartbreaker, Electra is now divorced from her husband and is now fooling around with several new men. Also, she removed the blonde from her hair, going back to her natural dark hair. Part 8: E.V.O.L, Electra begins to realise that she is a little heartbroken and "fucked up" after divorcing her husband. The fun with new boys has run dry. Part 9: State of Dreaming, Electra realises that she ruined her own life by being narcissistic and unappreciative. She realises that she's been "living in a make-believe land" where she didn't need anyone but herself. Part 10: Lies. Electra gets her husband back. Sort of. He doesn't love her anymore, and she's completely heartbroken. Their relationship now is purely sexual, and she knows it will never be mended. Part 11: Electra Heart. Electra's life has fizzed out, and after ruining her marriage and losing her husband and all the happiness she ever had, Electra kills herself. Also: Perhaps her husband had a girlfriend or wife when he and Electra first met in Radioactive, and thats where "Homewrecker" comes in.

Marina looking gorgeous in this vid, but that's normal cuz she's literally gorgeous all the time.

I ACTUALLY LOVE MARINA'S HAIR UP LIKE THAT

currently rewatching all her mvs after purge the poison dropped

It always gives me chills when she shows up in the dark room without the heart on her cheek. When they're in the better lit room/house, they play games, they're just having fun. But when she's found alone in the dark, she shows her vulnerable side, without the heart, only to him. She hugs and holds him in that room as if he's all she's got in the world, as if she's trying to feel safe there. GOD, if this isn't one of the best projects/eras someone ever made. Ugh.

Marina was the first doing the Ice Bucket Challenge.

without sound it just looks like she forgot to pay the light bill and they're fighting because now he has to paint in the dark. Lol

I don’t understand why this wasn’t a hit... it’s so catchy. The lyrics are perfection as well

i love that she is posed near/on the chair to look like a scorpion. scorpio. stinger.

Marina is allowed to use AutoTune because she sounds even better Live.

I love how Marina makes her videos...well, it's hard to explain, but sort of "detached" and "mysterious", if you get what I mean. Like she is separate from the rest of the world, especially in the Electra Heart series.

electra heart will always be famous! this album is a piece of art! this song is so powerfull! I miss this era! It will be forever in my heart

Why this album had a bad reception with the critics and didn't happen in the charts? I think is a good pop album for that time, in terms of production, and she discuss interesting things in the lyrics with a interesting concept, c'mon she made a visual album before Beyoncé, the USA don't deserve Marina thats the true

marina and the diamond ft. random hot guy

When you forget to pay the electricity bill....

She was so ahead of her time and original.

Marina is truly the only artist i ever came across to that i just don't get bored of. Every album she put out has such a replay value, it's amazing.

1:23 "What the fuck do you think you're doing to my walls???"

"Woman and men,we are the same" preach babe 🙏

I've started listening to her again after stopping for a year or so, I shed a tear

woah chorus 0:33 seconds in, you go marina

the cat is me, the awkward third wheel that no one noticed

*plays this at my future wedding*

Can we all just take a second to appreciate how AMAZING Marina's hair is?

WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT DAT JAWLINE AT 1:38 FUCK ME UP

Everyone has a crush on Marina. No buts;)

Is anyone else dying for the next album?

How this was not a hit I'll never know x

she sounds so powerful, so strong. it's dazzling

her lil heart tattoo is my fave it's so cute

Part 1: fear and loathing After committing suicide, Electra begins yet another new life. She has high hopes for this one, hoping she won't be unhappy like in her previous lives Part 2: radioactive Electra finds a new boyfriend, and she feels happy, a change from her previous experiences. She ambitiously dives into the future Part 3: the archetypes Electra begins to feel like multiple people: a beauty queen, a housewife, a home wrecker/ heartbreaker, and a teen idle Part 4: Primadona: Electra lets the beauty queen part of her personality take over Part 5: Su-Barbie-a Electra begins to feel like the beauty queen is false, overly perfect, and transparent, and that everyone knows it's not really her. She feels like a Barbie, perfect but fake Part 6: fear and loathing Electra's boyfriend, sick of all of her issues, breaks up with her. She explodes, and tries to keep him, but he leaves.

I just broke up and discovered this song. It made me so good and powerful that I’m not going to waste my time on suffering anymore!

if toxic relationships would have an anthem, then this is the one

I would turn straight for her.

In this video Marina looks gorgeous, she's the real piece of art 😍

personally still the best song of Marina. absolutely iconic

Watching the Electra Heart music videos hypnotizes me. Every single one is a work of art and the vibes are so specific that this is something only MARINA could do. She’s so incredible and her music is still amazing to this day.

The most underrated artist ever........

Well, HE may not be a piece of art...

When she repeats "I am weak" I'll never ever get over how haunting that part is.

happy 10 years electra heart

its power and control but she clearly fogot to pay the power bill.

She's the most emotionally intelligent artist I've ever listened to. i love the way she sings about people's personalities and feelings and i can identify with all of her songs.

I just wanna thank Marina's parents for birthing this wonderful human being

i really can't imagine a world without this song 😭

This is actually about her playing mind games with this guy. Power and control. She's controlling him, making him play her games. Throwing the ball, doing the chin ups,the ice water, the paint, looking for her with the lantern. This is all about her controlling someone.

"Cause all my life I've been controlled." -I relate to this line so much it hurts.

0:59 When I see my mum from the window bringing lots of food.

Electra heart was such art. I’m glad I appreciated this when it came out in 2012 during the thumblr era. Lol.

She's tired of being the 'S-barbie-A' archetype and now she's taking power over the relationship because she hates being 'the perfect housewife' wow she's just amazing, love you marina!

2:22 This foreshadowed the Ice Bucket Challenge that spanned across the globe.

queen of everything

This beat is so good. Also fits her voice so well.

I shouldn't admire to be like this but... fuck it, it's true.

at 1:45 I always hear "ashunamumubaloogey" or something

Marina legit looks like one of those Greek Goddess statues. I mean look at this 0:21

who is listening to this master piece 2023?

I love this song more than I love myself

Marina is definitely a piece of art!

this song truly has the best lyrics PERIOD

She had the heart on her cheek before E-girls

"Yeah, you may be good looking but you're not a piece of art..." - best line!

THIS IS " MY FAVORITE SONG OF MARINA" --- I CAN LISTEN TO IT 1,000 TIMES AND " NEVER BE SICK OF IT " !

Ok, here is MY theory for this album. I have included 2 songs that are not in the “parts” because I feel like they are still essential to the story. Part 1: Fear and Loathing. This is the song that concludes the album, but is part 1 here. I think this means that at this point, Electra Heart is already dead, which is why Marina does not have the heart on her cheek, and why she already seems to have learnt her lesson (I lived my life in bitterness… There is no crime in being kind… I’m done with trying to have it all.”) It is already the end. She also refers to the archetypes she once was when she was Electra Heart (“I lived a lot of different lives, been different people many times…Got different people inside my head, I wonder which one they like best…”) i.e. the four archetypes, “lived a lot of different lives” implies that she has already lived as these four archetypes, as Electra Heart. We haven’t been introduced to these “people inside her head” yet, but we will be in Part 3. Part 2: Radioactive: The mood and attitude in this song is completely different to Part 1, and it seems too different to follow on from Part 1. It is much too upbeat compared with the sad tones of Fear and Loathing, and her attitude to love is completely different in this song (“Love is all that I fear”). This implies that this song must have happened in a completely different period of time, so must be a FLASHBACK to Electra Heart’s past, when she was alive (in fact, the WHOLE ALBUM is a flashback to Electra Heart’s past, until her death in Part 11). In this song, we flashback to where it all began, when Marina was becoming Electra Heart, before Electra Heart completely took her over. She wears a blonde wig to symbolise she is ready for a drastic transformation. We see her behaving irrationally, sawing a sofa, misbehaving in a shop, probably to let go of the anger she has. She has developed a negative attitude towards love, probably due to some heartbreak. She tries to convince herself that she was not the victim in the relationship breakdown, that it was HIS loss (“Baby know I’m the one who left you/You’re not the one who left me.”) (“Ready to be let down… Love is all that I fear”… ) she is scared of being hurt in a relationship again. Part 3: The Archetypes: we are introduced to the archetypes, and Electra Heart is a bit of all of them: Housewife, Homewrecker, Beauty Queen, Idle Teen. Homewrecker: The first archetype. She is ready for a complete transformation (“You’ll find me in the lonely hearts/Under ‘I’m after a brand new start’”) but not just a blonde wig like in Radioactive. She wants a permanent change, so dyes her hair blonde. Electra Heart is disgusted by the girls around her who feel the need for a serious relationship (“Girls and their curls and their gourmet vomit/Boys and their toys and their six inch rockets”) According to her, love has always been one-sided (“One will breed love, the other hate”) She prides herself on needing no one else and being a cruel player (“Deception, perfection are wonderful traits… And I don’t belong to anyone”). She’s a slayer, and she’s proud of it. Part 4: Primadonna: for the first time, we see Marina with an eyeliner drawn heart on her cheek, which symbolises that she has fully become Electra Heart. This shows Electra Heart as the “Beauty Queen” archetype, she is obsessed with materialism and adoration, (“All I ever wanted was the world… I wanna be adored…”) Part 5: Su-Barbie-a: the third archetype, the housewife. We see Marina’s face hidden, showing that Electra Heart has no sense of identity, like a housewife who belongs to her husband. Like most women in the industry, she is objectified and chosen for her looks over her true self (“Having the body that you have, having the face shape that you have, this really does work for you”). She always “belongs” to someone, and she hates it, like a Barbie doll, which is kind of the metaphor used here, the idea that women can be used for their looks (in both the industry and in relationships) and then thrown away (“Look at those great looking dolls! … But what do I do with my old Barbie?” implying that like dolls, they can be discarded when no longer needed and won’t suit the current trendy climate. “Barbie’s new and different!” is implying that the perfect body image is changing with time, and that women with the old “Barbie” body aren’t useful in the industry now so can be thrown away like any other Barbie doll) Part 6: Power and Control: sick of her passive housewife self, Electra Heart decides to take back control in her relationship. We see her in the video playing mind games with her lover, controlling him, highlighting how there always seems to be a power struggle in relationships (“Women and men we are the same/But love will always be a game”). She wants to be the ruling power in her relationship. Teen Idle: The last archetype ‘Idle Teen’ , we see Electra Heart’s more vulnerable side. It’s emotionally exhausting for her to constantly put up her ‘tough-girl’ image. She wishes she could be a cold-hearted person deep down (“I wanna be a _real_ fake”) but she can’t, it’s an act and she knows it but she can’t let the mask slip. She hates her adult life, it’s too much effort, and looks back on her teen years, wishing she had lived them to the fullest, doing whatever frivolous things normal teens do, like being “a prom Queen fighting for the title” instead of feeling depressed and “suicidal”. Part 7: How to Be a Heartbreaker: knowing she can’t afford to break, Electra Heart rebounds and let’s go of her “teen idle” self, and we see her as even more cold-hearted than before (but this is an act, she is using this as a defence mechanism because she is still afraid). She is ashamed that she let her guard down and showed us her true emotions in “Teen Idle”, so decides that it is time for another drastic transformation, so she dyes her hair black again to create an even more menacing identity. We can see that in the video, the ribbon ties in her hair change colour with each different boy she is with, signifying that she changes herself to appeal to each different boy, she is worse than ever before. She tells us her rules on… well… how to be a heartbreaker (duh..?) and on of the rules is to “never wear your heart on your sleeve/unless you wanna taste defeat”. “Wear your heart on your sleeve” is a saying that means to show your true emotions or feelings. Electra Heart is telling us to never show our true emotions if we want to come out on top in a relationship, and at the bridge of the song, she tells us why she has decided to keep her cold-hearted mask on (“We don’t want our hearts to break… so it’s better to be fake”). Part 8: E.V.O.L: Electra Heart monologues about how love is poisonous, she hates it. She has become so bitter about having any kind of serious relationship (“Every kiss you give me makes me sicker”) But we also here her say (“And I’m your dying beauty Queen”) signalling that Electra Heart is weakening. She is losing control of Marina and is slowly dying. Part 9: The State of Dreaming: inspired by Marilyn Monroe, a model who tragically took her own life aged 35. Even though she took her own life, the beautiful image of her is strong enough for her to be remembered by. In the same way, people see Electra Heart as this pretty looking character, she is really just as vulnerable as the rest of us. In this song, Electra Heart acknowledges her fake mess and how she plays into a character that she is not deep down (“My life is a play”) and realises that all the material things she thought she desired are fake and meaningless (“I live my life inside a dream”). Part 10: Lies: The whole point of Electra Heart being a cold-hearted heartbreaker was so she could make boys fall for her, only to throw them away like she once was. It is her way of making herself feel strong. But in this song, Electra Heart’s plan seems to have backfired. She got into a relationship with someone who she hoped to trick like every other boy, but she ended up falling in love with him, but HE was playing HER, and ended up beating her at her own game. Electra Heart seems to have given up here, she is tired of playing the “love game” she has always played: “You’re never gonna love me/So what’s the use?/What’s the point in _playing_ /A _game_ you’re gonna lose?” She has admitted defeat and she can’t help but fall in love with one who played her (“I can’t let you go…”) , even though he doesn’t feel the same (“I don’t wanna admit that we’re not gonna fit/No I’m not the type that you like”) Part 11: Electra Heart is now completely broken. She is completely broken hearted and has admitted defeat, she has lost control over Marina. She admitted that the idea of materialism and stardom blinded her (“Lights they blind me”). At the end of the video, she wipes the heart off her cheek, signalling that Electra Heart is dead and only Marina remains. She asks you to “go back to the start, where the holy father made his mark”. She asks you to go back to the beginning of the album, Fear and Loathing, which explains what led her to that place where she learnt her lesson (“There is no crime in being kind/Not everyone is out to screw you over/Maybe they just wanna get to know you”) WE NOW GO BACK TO PART 1 LIKE ELECTRA HEART TOLD US TO: We know that Electra Heart is already dead in Fear and Loathing now as MARINA has learnt the lessons she should have, and has cut her hair short, unlike the Electra Heart in the Electra Heart video who has quite long hair, and has also no longer has the heart on her cheek. Basically, Fear and Loathing is put at the beginning, but is really the end. Electra Heart is no more.

SLAAAAY

When she's kneeling in front of that chair uhhhhh I don't have words.

Marina could rip out one of my eyebrows and i'd probably be like "thank you"

2:13 I get chills whenever she hits this note ❤

Marina is the beauty standard.

WHY IS EVERYONE IN THE COMMENTS TYPING IN ALL CAPS

'You may be goodlooking, but you're not a piece of art' me @ all the boys from my school

I am insanely jealous of the dude in this video

Am I the only one who thinks her hair is just perfect?

WHAT IF THE MAN IN THE FROOT VIDEO IS THIS SAME MAN....

give her a fucking Grammy or something already, and buy her downloads people she's really better than anything out there.

ugh she's so powerful

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELECTRA HEART !!!!!!!!!! TURNING 8 YEARS OLD TODAY

Marina is so underrated oh my gosh I mean she's so talented she even writes her own songs unlike most of the famous pop artists.

Marina is my queen

Taking back her power.

Marina an absolute queen and a random guy in a suit

Still reminds me of Marilyn Monroe!

HOW CAN SHE BE SO PERFECT?!?!?!?!

God damn this woman was ahead of her time.

15 MILLION SOON

its so crazy how i used to be obsessed with this song. Time flies fucking fast i swear. I used to listen to this on my way to school. Wow. I feel old =(

I wonder is she a relative of Aphrodite hmmm I wonder because Marina is such goddess honestly she makes good music like who agrees with me????

I haven’t watched this music video or listened to this song in forever and I got chills like it’s the first time. This videography and song is COMPLETELY underrated. Marina is SO talented and has found such a niche sound that’s familiar yet incredibly unique all wrapped up in her powerful alto femininity. Fantastic.

‘’You can’t have peace without a war’’