MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS - SU-BARBIE-A [Official Music Video] | ♡ ELECTRA HEART PART 5/11 ♡
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- Official Music Video | MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS - SU-BARBIE-A | ♡ ELECTRA HEART PART 5/11 ♡
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Electra Heart is the girl you run into in the supermarket wearing a faux fur coat and sunglasses, leisurely picking through the avocado. Her cart is filled with champagne and strawberries and she doesn’t even care that you’ve been staring at her from the bakery aisle. She’s angsty, and you can tell that her phone conversation didn’t end well by the way she dramatically dropped her phone and wiped a solitary tear from her cheek. The same cheek that has a eyeliner-drawn heart on it.
Electra Heart is out now: Marina.lnk.to/ElectraHeart
LYRICS
Who are those great looking dolls?
It's quick curl-Barbie and mod-hair Ken!
But what do I do with my old Barbie?
S-U-B-A-R-B-I-E-A, S-U-B-A-R-B-I-E-A
Yeah, Su-Barbie-A
If you're going to tell me you don't like this dress
I'm sticking my head right in the oven
Oh, honey!
I feel fantastic, hey hey hey
The fact is:
You, being the artist that you are
Being the age that you are
Having the body that you have
Having the face shape that you have
This really does work for you!
Now, you are not, uh
Being the real adult in this
Not with this hair, and not with this dress!
Honestly, I feel like I'm celebrating
(Barbie) And I love
Girl, be honest
Is there any possible way you could think for a second
About what somebody else might think of this?
Doll!
I love your wives, They're so, uh
Fuzzy fuzzy cute cute!
Barbie's changed, Barbie's new and different!
The Stepfords!
I don't like tea, I like gin
Even if they don't like me, they all know me
Be who you wanna be, girl!
B-A-R-B-I-E
Tanner wants a treat!
So cute! Oh excuse us!
You potty trained Tanner, Barbie!
Barbie girl
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tHE SYMOBLISM IN this short video is incredibly powerful...The "no head" American housewife without an identity...That is just my guess right now.
+joydivisiongir .... But we see her head..
Jadd Haidar sometimes yes, but i think there is a reason Marina decided to shoot this video in the way it was done....
So she's like a Barbie; same as all the others, not different? Like how the Archetypes are different, but still stereotypes. So, trying to be a housewife Archetype, Electra Heart is stereotypical.
was that the point in the cartoon _cow and chicken_ ?
@r. chromosphere i agreee
others: "let's watch a horror movie"
*goes to watch the Su-Barbie-A video again*
lmaoo me
Lmfao I thought I was the only one. Was always scared to watch at night.
The video is a reference to Sylvia Plath (an American poet) who killed herself buy putting her head in the oven. That's why you can't see Marina's face. The name Su-Barbie-A is a reference to Hollywood (Suburbia) and the pressures of fame (Barbie). The song Valley of the Dolls is based on a film of the same title which is based on 3 women who lose track of reality.
Bottom line, Marina is a genius. Love you💕
thank you for this
there is "i feel fantastic" from tara the android too
Niall Prideaux lana is stealing this now in 2019, we’ll....
@@TECHNOVINTAGEBLO lana didn't steal it .
@@TECHNOVINTAGEBLO no she fucking didn't
I love Marina and I get the story behind this song but thiS VIDEO REALLY SCARES ME
And that's fantastic
I know right like this scares me more than Justin biebers face which means its really fucking scary like I cannot watch this just no.
Yep
Lauren D same omfg its so creeeepy
Lauren D I don´t get the story or whatsoever about this song... can you explain it to me please ??????
"if you're going to tell me you don't like this dress, I'm sticking my head right in the oven" same
|-/
I love it
shrugs i don't know
+G.A Adams I thought the same thing
|-/
"hEY HEY HEY"
*cries*
same
jungkook??
+The Ruler Of Seas (my cat is weird) armies ay
yoongi's baby a y
'i feeLLLLL FFAAANNTAAASSTTIC'
sobs
after 2 years I understand the message of this video. it portraits a housewife and how in the 50's a housewife had to be pleasing a man, and had worry about housework and her children. she adds in a quote from a 1970's movie called The Stepford wifes, the movie is about housewife's and how they basically are like robot or dolls (thus repeating Barbie being a doll) having no outside activities and always being happy and in good shape. I think this is what she's trying to express in this video. how a housewife is seen as nothing but a doll or object.
also sorry for grammatical mistakes
The good times for women!
+Данислав Жуков wtf
+Dave Palmtree there were so few mistakes, no worries, and i like your theory, i also picked up on The Stepfod wives thing
Thanks man, now it makes sense to me :D
Pick a personality for free when you feel like nobody :
1 - A House Wife
2 - A Beauty Queen
3 - A Homewrecker
4 - An Idle Teen
Homewrecker
House Wife!
Cry Baby !!!
idle teen
i want to be an idle teen
Imagine if this song was playing while you were walking through a haunted house or something, it would be creepy. I Love Marina
very creepy
omfg yassssss
thats creepy
***** lmao i dont beleive that
Yesss 😭💀
This song is about the horror of women's image/ the ideal of the 'perfect' person. She used a line from The Stepford Wives, in which, in the 1975 version, one of the characters say, "If you are going to tell me you don't like this dress I'm sticking my head in the oven." The film was about women being replaced by robots in a suburban neighborhood.
everyone has thier own opinions on why each part of electra heart is different, i think this one has to do with the 50's and ideally how woman's roles , how woman was sought after for thier bodies not thier minds: i mean the entire album(mainly videos) is based off a certain archetype of women she mentions in part 3
*hears I Feel Fantastic*
*has Vietnam flashbacks*
Squishy Rogue ok me
saMe
I swear I almost went into a frenzy when I heard that damn "I FEEL FANTAaAaASTIC" like shit Marina, I didn't come here to have an encounter with death
The funny thing about it though is that when I first heard this song I was in my kitchen making food, and I was just about to put it in the microwave when I fucking heard Tara behind me. I literally just froze up and slowly looked over my shoulder before running over to my phone and skipping back in the song to make sure I'd heard correctly. It was actually pretty funny now that I look back on it. 😂
Squishy Rogue BRO SAME. I mean when I first heard this, it was 1 am so I wasn't making food in the kitchen or anything, but geez it was all quiet in my house, I was in the zone just writing my story, when suddenly I hear fucking Tara screeching her vocals into my ear... and liiike... I love creepy stuff, but not past midnight 😭
I feel like it's presented in this confusing manner because this is how people see the character. From afar, you ignore her, you just see a girl with a pretty dress and figure. As you get closer, you start to become curious and want to know her. But no one ever tries, they get close but all they see is her nice hair and forget she is a person. You can't tell if she's facing forwards or backwards because when you see her, no matter the angle, she's not a person. Her personality is buried deep within her and no one has tried to uncover it, until all she really is is something to look and admire at.
HOLY FUCK THIS IS AMAZING
damn
Imagine that though. Like imagine waking up in the middle of the night and just hearing this, but without the backing track for Valley Of The Dolls, so it's just the Barbie ads and Marina occasionally singing "SU-BARBIE-A". Like imagine how scary that would be.
NIGHTMARES
OH MTY FUCKIN GOSHHHHHHHHHHHH,.......................................
AHHHHHHHHHH
Stephanie P and a headless black n white woman standing in your doorway fuck I just gave myself chills
the question is, would it be scarier if it were super loud or very quiet?
To me, it seems like her face is in darkness because she's 'faceless', presented as just a body with a pretty dress on. That's all you're given to judge her by.
It says a lot about how women are presented in the media, by advertising companies etc.
This is the truest shit I've read today
or her heads backward like how a dolls head can be turned backwards.
That backwards head thing seems more scarier.
You can actually see around 1:10 that her face is turned sideways, looking down, as if ashamed or submissive.
Alex Ziegler She turned her head to draw comparison between the movie Valley of the dolls, Sylvia Plath and exorcism kinda, it's suppoused to look like her head is displaced, her face is on the back of the body. She said so in some interview
10+ years later, this album is still one of the most genius body of work ever made in pop music.
I will PREACH this until the day I die.
"if youre going to tell me you dont like this dress i'm sticking my head right in the oven." creepy.
If I'm not mistaken there's a writer or a poet who committed suicide by sticking her head in the oven... I don't remember her name.
it reminds me of Sylvia Plath ;)
o_O
the "hey hey hey, I feel fantastic" part is WAAAY more creepier if you know abou its origin
o~O
She is such a genius! The music matches with Valley of the Dolls and the video is named SU-BARBIE-A. Barbie is a doll and the valley is a suburb. It all makes sense now
+axiswoo WHOA
The whole video I was just thinking there was going to be a jump scare
same 😄
Same tbh
Same
Ok but true
The sudden Barbie singing at the end counts as one to me
"But what will I do with my old Barbies?" The ad choices Marina picked just prove how genius she is. That one line amongst the dozens of others goes to show how easily replacable we are, how plastic this world really is.
"You look fantaaaastic"
Me: I'm laughing, I'm crying
It feels like I'm dying
+Monica Canchola it's my party and i cry if i want to
+Yoonjoricci cry if I want to
IT FEELS LIKE IM DYING!
MLPs CRYBABY i'm dying, i'm dying
i watched at 1 am
kill
me
+Amęthyst (Tasty Fandom Fillet ツ) Same here
I almost did then I NOPED super hard lol
It's 4 am here Dory
same here xD
+Curly McJensenpants yep
Who are those great-looking dolls?
It's quick-curl Barbie and mod-hair Ken! But what do I do with my old Barbie? S-U-B-A-R-B-I-E-A x2 Yay, Su-Barbie-A! If you're going to tell me you don't like this dress, I'm sticking my head right in the oven. You are fantastic! Hey, hey, hey..The fact is, you being the artist that you are, being the age that you are, having the body that you have, having the face shape that you have, this really does work for you! Now you are not uh..fading into invisibility in this..not with the hair and not with this dress! Honestly, I feel like I'm celebrating..(Barbie!) Entitled! Barbie, is there any possible way that you could think for a second about what somebody else might think of you? Doll! Hahaha! I love your wives, they're so um..Fuzzy, fuzzy, cute, cute! Barbie's changed! Barbie's new and different! The Stepfords! I don't like tea, I like gin. I mean, even if they don't hire me, they'll know me.. Be who you wanna be, girl! B-A-R-B-I-E! Tanner wants a treat! So cute! Oh, excuse us, you potty trained Tanner, Barbie! Barbie Girl..
Georgia Kimberly have u seen the video you are fantastic hey hey hey type that into google and u will shit your pants thats what she used for that part in her video :o
+Sabi J I saw it I had nightmares it's creepy af
omg i
know right >,
+Sabi J Type what into google?
+Satirical Pink Squid type into youtube i feel fantastic and click the video with the manniquin doll and watch stories on it u will shit bricks
we’re never getting another era like this i fear 😭😭💛
get over it
its only 5 stages
get over it
Sadly no, but tbh that makes it even more unique and iconic
we dont need one, it was good but we dont need more
no but think about all the other possible good eras that will be made
haven’t listened to this short since 2014 at the latest and man i really forgot how much i loved this album concept. stanning marina in 2013/2014 was a TIME to be alive, and the electra heart era hasn’t aged at all
Imagine if they played this in the Barbie movie lol
It would have been perfect
This one always gives me the chills
What happens
I'm scared to watch it
***** If you look at her feet, she isn't facing back but instead, her head is errmm turned back.
Aurelia Widjaja actually she's in her front and her head is just turned to the side
Turmag Turmag Oh yea, she is but I think they wanted it to look that way, like I mean facing back.
For me she is standing in front of us but we can't see her face cause her hair hide it. Marina's hands are on her back like she is ready to inviting us to her house or something
What i love about Marina is she can go from "FUCK YEAH SHOWER WITH HALF NAKED BOYS I MA HEARTBREAKER LALALOVE YOU", to "WTF IS THIS CREEPY SHIT ?!"
That is so absolutely true! I couldn't have said it better myself.
Beginning of the video: MARINA
Middle of the video: MARINA WHAT ARE YOU DOIENG
End of the video: MARINA STAHP
Lol
Lmfaooooo
Lol same xD
+Love, Alice. Lol same xD
Lol, love the Frank N Furter profile pic
watching this at 2:00 AM all alone in the dark, probably not a good idea.
still love this tho
+Andrea Henriquez me right now at 2:34am
+Andrea Henriquez me right now at 2:23 am
me rn @ 2:27
halp
Literally same it's 2:23 and I'm feeling regret lol Mermaid Amanda
*Hears Tara*
I JUST CAME TO HAVE A GOOD TIME AND I'M HONESTLY FEELING SO A T T A C K E D RIGHT NOW
This is My Name Okay. IM GOING TO STICK MY HEAD IN AN OVEN
ME FUCKING TOO MAN
SA ME
TARA IS SATAN
SAME
SAMESAMESAME
Brianna I know right, I heard Tara too
holy shit i watched this at 4 am regretting
same help
miyako same. Except it's 3 am
Same except it's 2 am
Yo Blackpink stans
oh other words please
wtf, I just can't stop watching this, I really can't stop, idk why
same
ME TOO
Sakyu Basu same
Sakyu Basu Same
Bro Marina should have got a song for the Barbie Movie
Lyrics:
Who are those great looking dolls?
It's Quick-Curl Barbie and Mod Hair Ken!
But what do I do with my old Barbie?
S-U-B-A-R-B-I-E-A x2
Yeah, Ooh
If you're going to tell me you don't like this dress I'm stick my head right in the oven (that hold me)
I feel fantastic!
Hey hey hey!
You'd be here expecting more the age that you are,
Having the body you have,
This really does work for you!
Now you are not fading into invisibility in this
Not with the hair, not with this dress!
Honestly, I feel like I'm celebrating
Barbie! You dance horrible!
Barbie, is there any possible way you could think for a second about what somebody else might think of you?
Doll! (Laughter)
I love your wives, they're soo.. umm...
FUZZY FUZZY CUTE CUTE :D
Barbie's Changed! Barbie's new and different!
The stepfords (Cheering)
I don't like tea, I like Gin.
Even if they don't like me, they all know me.
Be who ya wanna be, GIRL!
B-A-R-B-I-E
Tanner wants a treat!
Sooo cute!
Oh excuse us! You potty trained Tanner, Barbie!
Barbie Girl!
HOPE THIS HELPEDD X3
snow girl it’s you are fantastic
addie [: a lot of these lyrics are wrong :( and also i’m 3 years late
10 years later, still here for miss Electra
she's in Venus Fly Trap hun
the fact that this isn't on spotify hurts my soul
I literally screamed.
♡ Hey, Hey, Hey ♡
lol
Electra, are you real?
BYE BYE BYE
The Barbie movie is out for two days now and I still cannot find ANY connection to that in the comments.
I will never forget Electra Heart, the embodiment of Barbie's concepts
- House Wife, Beauty Queen, Homewrecker and Idle Teen.
I think it's supposed to show that Marina's the perfect housewife, or a Barbie doll in the suburbs (probably in the 1950's), and she's sick of it because she's only judged by her body and clothes rather than their thoughts and personality. She has all this pressure to be perfect, to be the good housewife she's supposed to be, but she doesn't want to be that 'perfect housewife'. She doesn't want to be an artificial women
and all the voice samples could be what she hears from others mixed with life experiences and thoughts
9 years later and I still get goosebumps while watching this. I absolutely adore your work, Marina!
Is it just me or there's a close connection between pronouncing "S-BARBIE-A" and "suburbia"; - meaning living outside in the Suburbs while being a classical American housewife trying to "survive" the perfect "Barbie" quality life.
that's deliberate, that's the entire song, it's a pun :)
marina loves her puns.
Fuadie Valle no but that's what it literally is
thats the point babe
Bruh moment
why is she facing forward,,,, but her head isn't????
dear lord sweet baby jesus
Melunie Martiez I LWV YHOU
Lana the Satan She was looking forward at the start of the video (you can't see it because of the lighting) but then she was slowly turning her head to the left. At around the middle of the video, you can almost see her face.
Lana the Satan. Its bc she is turning away from society or some shit. Idk. Just what I've been told.
+Shelby Hicks that I must take the unforsaken road 😂😂
i tend to forget how *_incredibly_* deep the electra heart storyline is. any time i listen to this or the archetypes i realize how complex / messed up electra heart is.
"Su-Barbie-A" sounds like "Survive". Did Marina try to tell us something?
I think it's a play on words with the word Suburbia 😊
Yeah, I think too. Thanks for clear my questions. I don't speak spanish, maybe that's the reason because I hear survive. :)
Maar Medina there isn't any Spanish in the title. Its barbie. Like the doll.
Sydney David Sorry, I mean I don't speak English. My first language is spanish, I'm from Argentina.
Oh my goodness I'm so sorry!
I love this. I love Marina. She's so Munique and such an inspiration.
what does munique mean?
Oshawottluv1 Music and Unique i guess?
KrockidieleDoesMC
lol
Oshawottluv1 IT WAS A TYPO AND I ONLY NOTICED IT NOW, OH MY GOD
omg!
This suits the Barbie movie
"If you're going to tell me you don't like this dress I'm going to stick my head in an oven" Freaky, but love it.
That was about a poet who stuck her head in the oven because her husband was never happy with her. I don't remember her name but that's where that line came from. Creepy but cool!
It's actually from the stepford wives.
@@braddiamandis330 Sylvia Plath
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.
at 0:39
*i feeel faaanntaaastiiiiccc*
*hey hey heyyy*
HopelessMashups xD i love that vid
Is it just me or does this creep u out? I don't know what this song is about.
It's about stereotypes and the pressure society puts on women.
Ok
***** besides, what synopsis???
I understand the story and all. But I'm terrified by this.
Reminds me of a creepypasta, tho the music makes it feel better than the scary video. The music in this sounds so familiar. Can anyone help me identify it?
this use to creep me out, but I somehow grew to love it... And I'm not sure why.
this video is so simple but so meaningful!
first of all we see Marina with white dress and a covered face that suggests she is without an identity, something she discusses in 'Valley of the dolls' song (which plays here in the back). She is standing in front of the house, so it's obviously a "Housewife" archetype here. We can't see what is inside the house, curtains are closed and the whole inside is covered in darkness which can suggest that dark things are going on there. She is standing as she is preventing anybody from coming there. The video is in monochrome which adds a sad tone and can portray 60's housewives depression. Also video is one scene looped. The camera is getting closer and further away from her. Loop can suggest that everyday feels the same for her with no change which she discusses in "Living Dead" song. The close up is maybe someone who is trying to get closer to her but then they realise they won't get near her (maybe she isn't open for strangers) so they go away. Also the title, as everyone probably figured out, means Suburbia (the outer parts of a town, where there are houses, but no large stores, places of work, or places of entertainment) but it's stylized as Su-Barbie-A. Barbie is probably Electra Heart's alterego, she is dressed in white dress here like a Barbie. Beauty outside but empty inside. Audios in the back speak for themselves, they are a collection of various commercials and clips from maybe 60s. The strongest ones are "if you don't like this dress I'm going to stick my head in the oven" and "why am I going to do with my old Barbie"
This simple video shows that you don't need to have a huge budget to make something really unique, entertaining, symbolic and very meaningful.
Omg the i feel fantastic
Out of all 11 parts, this one is still one of the most interesting to me. The "head in the oven" quote is from The Stepford Wives, which is about perfect (albeit robot) housewives, the "feel fantastic" quote is from the singing android, and of course the Barbie quotes interspersed in there. All the quotes are related to artificial women, and the Su-Barbie-A Archetype is partly about being the 'artificial' 'prefect' wife that every husband wants. Haunting. Creepy. Genius. I love it so much.
This is basically talking about several things. One is how Barbies are so thin, blonde, tan and perfect. How Barbie is what society expects all of us girls to look like. It also talks about how easily we can be replaced. When were replaced its always by something better. That's what I believe at least, this video is for us to create our own meaning to.
This makes me feel…
(turns and looks into a distant camera like I'm on the Office)
FANTASTIC.
The concept of this album is so much fuckin dark and deep .literally.
I interpreted this as a powerful feminist message. From a very a very young age we are socialised to be society's ideal women a ('Barbie' so to speak). Of course, as times change so do the ideals women have to live up to. How does a girl fulfil these without loosing herself in the process?
Secondly, the video is in black and white; which could link to society's 'black' and 'white' views of how women aught to behave. Marina (or the doll) seems to be guarding the house suggestive of women being housekeepers. But if you look much deeper, it could suggest that the house is in fact her heart or her hidden identity.The camera is very invasive but Marina react to it , nor do we see what's inside the house. Again, this could be interpreted in several ways. It could signify over exposure to gender expectations.
And of course there's the title...
'Subarbiea' / Suburbia
Just think of desperate housewives- especially Brie. Brie always upheld this façade; she was spotless, perfect and plastic. As did all the housewives, Brie had dark secrets and she was flawed.
Now think about influential women in the public eye. They almost have to be spotless because the camera is always watching. e.g. the Duchess of Cambridge...
Jenny Banful I feel like you captured the meaning of this song and video so perfectly!
porkchops91 Wow, you had to take a beautiful comment and turn it into a slutshaming nightmare. Real classy.
Also, it's spelled *you're not your.
+porkchops91 no Aleena is right.
!Random/Shallot6! to you. not to me. feminism is destroying western civilisation and the family unit. That's a fact. Men and women are growing up in single households more and more because of the crap that feminist vomit out. Women lap it up thinking its empowering but at large its corroding society. This third wave of feminism is a blight to society and women under its spell are the ones who will lose out on the long run.
+Guna Campbell not my concern. The fact is that as long as women keep this crap up the family unit which already is virtually destroyed in western countries will continue to suffer. It's the children who suffer the most though as they don't have both parents which is vital for their development.
Flashback for the barbie era
God, I love how symbolic her videos are, especially all through out her Electra Heart era.
Advice to newbies on this video whom are confused: Listen well to the sampled clips. They explain a lot.
This is somehow very comforting when I'm feeling really upset or lonely
this video is creepy but i like the message behind it
kai patterson can you explain it? please
Yeraldin Delgado basically, by using different sound clips of barbie ads and other recognizable things (like "I Feel Fantastic" is from a video) its showing that society is putting pressure on women/housewives to be "perfect" like a barbie doll, and that the way our society is set up, its important to think of how others see you. the video is not condoning this type of action; as with the rest of the Electra Heart album/video series, its satire.
(at least thats the way im interpreting it)
Ohh, thank you!, and... what is that I feel fantastic about?
this is completely irrelevant to the topic but i couldn't help but notice tuls as your profile pic--
I love Marina. So unique. We'll, this video was most certainly unique. I thought her head was gonna turn round. @_@
THE "I FEEL FANTASTIC" AUDIO NOOO
This song scares me to much but... I can't stop watching it... Even in this dark "song" Marina's elegance and thoughtfulness shines.
creppy but iconic
'I don't like tea, I like gin' IS THAT FROM THAT FRICKIN ALDI ADVERT
Why is this so unsettling?
idk but i agree
the vocals
they sound like they came straight from a horror movie
ikr I am scared when I listen to this yet I keep listening to it
i'm weirdly calmed lol
Fucking tara.
when she sings "subarbieaaaaaa" its just so beautiful and it gives me chills i just love it
Was that the audio from "Tara, the Singing Android"?
what time does it come in im so confused what
0:40
OH GOD
heck yes. this isn't ok
she fucKING SCARES ME
THE I FEEL FANTASTIC SAMPLE OMG
I was almost expecting the face from the Exorcist to pop up at the end..
Marina should’ve made this into interludes on the album :(
I can not stop to listen it
for some reason I can't stop listening.
OMG!!You can see her face at 1:15 just look closer.She is looking her left.That is really scary.
I've watched this several times and the genius of which ads she picked is starting to come through more each time. "But what do I do with my old Barbies?" as if we are easily replaceable once something new and improved comes out.
marina giving you social construct realness since 2012
I honestly don't know how I reacted when I first heard this if I even did but I don't really know how to feel because it shows a lot about the "idle" wife at the time and it's really meaningful so I'll have to think about this more
rip electra
is she electra?, cause she looks just like shakira
+matejpc world actually , she's Catherine Zeta
Alex Ivers matejpc world not quite sure but at least is a good band
actually her name is marina
Me every morning at school
"if you don't tell me you like this dress, i'm going to stick my head in the oven." i love this horrific class of this whole album.
Who's here after watching the Barbie movie?
I can listen to this forever, and i will bye
Isn't this the beat to valley of the dolls?
yeah
its the same instrumental
It's the intro of the Valley of the Dolls instrumental
If you're gonna tell me you dont like this dress im sticking my head straight in the oven.
I don't like this dress
"If tell me you don't like this dress I'm sticking my head in the oven."
0_o
BlossomBear&BabyMarioPlays Ok... what happens if I click on that link; furthermore, what WILL POP UP?? (I don't trust it..) o_0
hai lona itz mi agan ur fan
Can someone explain to me why she found it OKAY to incorporate I Feel Fantastic when she knows damn well her fans are gonna watch this in the middle of the night
I love how the whole Electra Heart era has the meaning with marina but how the video series and songs are all able to be open to personal interpretation
Her head isnt on backwards, its tilted to the side, you can see her face when it goes close up.
They: this is scary
Me:no lol pussies
"I feel fantastic" starts playing
Me: *OHMYGODIPEED*
biggest crime is this isnt on vinyl 💔
I miss this marina smh
THE ROBOT GIRL SAYING "HEY HEY HEYY" SCARED ME SO BAD
well that was incredibly creepy... time to move on to Power and Control!
0:40 Thought I heard you in there, Tara.
TARA NEEDS TO FUCK OFF
She's creepy af, but for some reason I really like the song lmao. Especially in this video, it's slightly remixed and edited.
The fact this was released in 2012 just adds to the vibe. How old it is.
I decided his would be nice to watch with my cousin as he likes the marina videos but now he won't sleep
LMAO
I just noticed but a lot of the speech in this is from an episode of What Not To Wear the "If you're going to tell me you don't like this dress" and "Being the artist that you are being the age that you are having the body that you have" anyone else notice?