music news MARINA Parts Ways With Atlantic Records; Is Officially Independent!

[GentleEarthquake]

good for her, i just hope she uses her creative freedom wisely

[Roger]

1 hour ago, Supervillain said:

Oh is she going to release good music finally? It’s been years

Right? 

 

Anciant Dreams have some jewels (no pun intended) but the project as a whole felt like a very agenda-is thing with forced themes. 

[Edibles.]

She’s gonna fall OFF hard just like Banks did. I bet she’ll do a distribution deal through AWAL and just completely miss the mark. 

I don’t mind these girls going indie, but Marina is going to make it her entire personality. It’ll be a girl boss move and how she writes her own music, owns her masters (if that’s the case…), is running a female owned business.

I’m not gonna be fighting for my life in these trenches anymore with her.

[James_XL]

Finally! Ancient Dreams deserved better promo. Can all this independent girls get their **** together and start a joint label? Going by Tinashe and Iggy if they don't start supporting each other first no one will no matter how good the music is. 

[redsing707]

As long as she's happy, I'm ok with it

[leightxn]

Good for her

[Velvet Night]

I’m so happy for her! I feel like this decision really makes sense for her. I’m very excited to see what direction she will go in now that she has full creative control

[pavi]

Oh wow, this really could go either way for her! It could be great for her to have full creative freedom and roll out music like she wants to, but I do feel like she's an artist who needs some quality management from outside too.

 

Do we know how much her old label limited her or influenced her sound? I only heard a lot about her label during the EH-era, but I have no clue if for example L+F was all her idea or a label's vision  

 

I also hope she'll still have access to good producers!

[Heartbreak Prince]

She and Charli both getting dropped by Atlantic in the same year…..here’s hoping the label will now be able to find the funds they’ve haemorrhaged on those two over the years to no recoup.  

[Velvet Night]

13 minutes ago, pavi said:

Oh wow, this really could go either way for her! It could be great for her to have full creative freedom and roll out music like she wants to, but I do feel like she's an artist who needs some quality management from outside too.

 

Do we know how much her old label limited her or influenced her sound? I only heard a lot about her label during the EH-era, but I have no clue if for example L+F was all her idea or a label's vision  

 

I also hope she'll still have access to good producers!

Idk if they influenced her sound in regards to L+F, but Marina said on a podcast last year that Atlantic was sitting on FROOT forever and refused to fund its mixing and photoshoot. She had to pay for it herself. 

[Generation Braindead]

I feel like Marina will excel more at being independent. She seems to be a very hands on artist with her own work. She produces and mixes a lot of her vocals and demos already. 

[pavi]

7 minutes ago, Velvet Night said:

Idk if they influenced her sound in regards to L+F, but Marina said on a podcast last year that Atlantic was sitting on FROOT forever and refused to fund its mixing and photoshoot. She had to pay for it herself. 

That doesn't surprise me tbh. It seems like the label wanted her to truly break out as a pop start during Electra Heart and when that didn't happen they probably didn't really know what to do with her (since all labels seem to care about is success and money). If FROOT was her direction and she just had to pay for stuff herself to get it out, not having a label will probably be a good thing for her

[The7thStranger]

GOOD. They screwed her so hard during the Love + Fear era. Not surprising, though. Atlantic is a mess.

[Pendulum]

Doesn't matter if she's signed to the biggest label out there or if she's going independent, she has lost her creative spark and that is the truth of the matter. Fans being blind to that are cringe and embarrassing and I feel sorry for you that you would eat up everything she puts out like the garbage ADIAML was with its faux-woke lyrics. 

 

Good luck to her anyway. She's not the same artist I once fell in love with so I don't really care what her next endeavours would be. 

[XtianB]

21 minutes ago, Velvet Night said:

Idk if they influenced her sound in regards to L+F, but Marina said on a podcast last year that Atlantic was sitting on FROOT forever and refused to fund its mixing and photoshoot. She had to pay for it herself. 

Do you happen to know what podcast it was? I’d like to listen to it

[Alex]

we won

I can see her doing a distribution deal of sorts like Allie X

[Velvet Night]

38 minutes ago, XtianB said:

Do you happen to know what podcast it was? I’d like to listen to it

It was Podcast Noor, just search for Marina on her website. 

 

https://www.noortagouri.com/podcastnoor

[Scandalous]

go back to the wacky indie girl that gave us TFJ

[Аshanti]

2 hours ago, Heartbreak Prince said:

She and Charli both getting dropped by Atlantic in the same year…..here’s hoping the label will now be able to find the funds they’ve haemorrhaged on those two over the years to no recoup.  

Charli has just released her most successful to date. It's been half a decade, sweeftie, let it GO.

 

 

Good for Marina!

[James_XL]

1 hour ago, Pendulum said:

Doesn't matter if she's signed to the biggest label out there or if she's going independent, she has lost her creative spark and that is the truth of the matter. Fans being blind to that are cringe and embarrassing and I feel sorry for you that you would eat up everything she puts out like the garbage ADIAML was with its faux-woke lyrics. 

 

Good luck to her anyway. She's not the same artist I once fell in love with so I don't really care what her next endeavours would be. 

The red flags this post has gurl. People really are scared of artists actually being woke, that's why her and Zara get so much bullsh1t online just cause rightist fear them.

[Pendulum]

50 minutes ago, James_XL said:

The red flags this post has gurl. People really are scared of artists actually being woke, that's why her and Zara get so much bullsh1t online just cause rightist fear them.

sadfghjkfgs what?  It's extremely foolish AND childish to claim I'm right wing because I dislike Marina's attempt at being political with her music. I'm not scared of some self-proclaimed millionnaires singing about how capitalism made us (she shouldn't include herself in that lyric) poor. It's a you problem if you cannot see the hypocrisy with the themes expored in ADIAML. But she's smart, she knows her fanbase would want to hear pseudo-crap like that.

 

Next time re-read your post before hitting the Submit Reply button because what you said makes 0 sense and it's embarrassing. It's exactly the type of behaviour from Marina stans I'm talking about.

Edited May 23, 2022 by Pendulum

[mypaintoyou]

I hope she releases better music 

tired of society and justice lyrics

i can’t relate 

[Edibles.]

3 hours ago, Pendulum said:

Doesn't matter if she's signed to the biggest label out there or if she's going independent, she has lost her creative spark and that is the truth of the matter. Fans being blind to that are cringe and embarrassing and I feel sorry for you that you would eat up everything she puts out like the garbage ADIAML was with its faux-woke lyrics. 

 

Good luck to her anyway. She's not the same artist I once fell in love with so I don't really care what her next endeavours would be. 

When you say it like this… I don’t disagree. J like the SOUND of the ADIAML album but yes, the lyrics are horrid (except for Flowers, Goodbye and I guess Happy Loner)

[Pendulum]

28 minutes ago, Edibles. said:

When you say it like this… I don’t disagree. J like the SOUND of the ADIAML album but yes, the lyrics are horrid (except for Flowers, Goodbye and I guess Happy Loner)

Happy Loner I agree, its one of her best lyric wise. She should stick to writing lyrics about her own personal experiences cause that is what she excels at

[Desire]

Why did I already think she was independent after she dropped the bomb that was L+F

 

Oh well, hopefully this is a good thing for her. Ancient Dreams deserved a lot more promo than what was given