To be honest, I'm not that surprised by the album drop in the charts. I love the album, don't get me wrong, and Marina can do no wrong as far as I'm concerned, but this is what I wrote to a friend a few days after the album debuted at #1 on the charts:
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Also, I don't see the claims that the album is so commercial compared to her first album. Yes, they've toned down the eccentricities a bit, and given a couple of songs big pop productions. But it's not like they didn't have a few songs on her first album that had big pop productions too. I find the new album to be very dark, so I'm not sure that it has any great mainstream appeal. Given that I do think that some criticism is fair. For instance, I'm not sure who the toned down quirkiness of this album is trying to appeal to. I think that it won't really garner a larger mainstream audience, and her fans I'm sure love her eccentricities. That being said, the album is at number 1, so I think that Marina will be doing okay. Though I find it likely that this is due to her rabid fans running out and buying her album the day it comes out. Albums by Kate Bush are also artificially high on the UK charts for this reason for a week or two.
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P.S. Does anyone have Marina's deleted blog posts?
what are the chances of that.
Primadonna has done very well.
