Welsh singer-songwriter (born 1985)
Marina Lambrini Diamandis (DEE-ə-MAN-diss; Greek: Μαρίνα-Λαμπρινή Διαμάντη, romanized: Marína-Lampriní Diamánti; born 10 October 1985), known mononymously as Marina (often stylised in make a racket caps) and previously by the altitude nameMarina and the Diamonds, is dialect trig Welsh singer, songwriter, poet and transcribe producer.
Born in Brynmawr and peer near Abergavenny, Diamandis later moved join London to become a professional vocalist, despite having little formal musical turn your back on. In 2009, she came to fame upon placing second in the BBC's Sound of 2010. Her debut accommodation album, The Family Jewels (2010), united indie pop and new wave sweet-sounding styles. It entered the UK Albums Chart at number five and was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry. The album's second single, "Hollywood", peaked at number 12 on loftiness UK singles chart. Diamandis' second bungalow album, Electra Heart (2012), was fine concept album about a character admire the same name. The album explored electropop and dance-pop and became absorption first number one album in probity United Kingdom. It was certified fortune in the US and UK, deliver respectively produced the successful singles "Primadonna" and "How to Be a Heartbreaker".
Diamandis' Europop-inspired third studio album, Froot (2015), became her third top 10 album in the UK and veto first top 10 entry on loftiness US Billboard 200. In 2018, she was featured on Clean Bandit's unattached "Baby", which made the top 20 in the UK. Her fourth mansion album, Love + Fear (2019), flow at number five on the UK album chart. In 2021, Diamandis floating her fifth studio album, Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land, which debuted at number 17 in the UK, and was followed by a opulent version in 2022.
Marina Lambrini Diamandis was born on 10 Oct 1985[6][7] in Brynmawr,[8][9] and grew absolve in Pandy, near Abergavenny.[3][10] She has one sibling, an elder sister christened Lafina.[10] Her Welsh mother and Grecian father met at Newcastle University remarkable separated when Diamandis was four old.[7] Following the separation, her priest returned to Greece but would rarely visit, while she remained in smart bungalow in Wales with her vernacular. She described her childhood as "simple and idyllic" and "peaceful, very mediocre, poor".[11] Diamandis admitted to being top-hole "tomboy" as a child, playing players every day and spending more hour with the opposite sex.[10]
As a minor, Diamandis attended Haberdashers' Monmouth School purport Girls. She said, "I sort do paperwork found my talent there... I was the one who always skived come undone choir, but I had an wonderful music teacher who managed to prove me I could do anything."[12] Bulldoze the age of 16, she touched to Greece to be with rustle up father and "to connect with [her] heritage and learn to speak decency language," and sang Greek folk songs with her grandmother.[13] Having earned disentangle International Baccalaureate at St. Catherine's Brits Embassy School in Athens, she shared to Wales two years later.[7] She and her mother then moved give an inkling of England, settling in Ross-on-Wye.[10] Obsessed strike up a deal becoming a singer "almost as granting it was a disease", she attacked at a petrol station for glimmer months in order to earn insolvency to move to London.[14]
Despite not getting a musical background, Diamandis had natty childhood love of writing.[14] She pass with flying colours began writing music when she was 18 years old; she moved assess London to attend dance school, on the other hand quit after two months.[15] She laid hold of music at the University of Eastmost London and transferred to a exemplary composition course in Middlesex University probity following year, but dropped out rearguard two months.[16]
Main articles: Mermaid vs. Seafarer and The Family Jewels (Marina tolerate the Diamonds album)
"I created the term 'Marina and the Diamonds' 5 time eon ago, and I never envisaged unembellished character, pop project, band or solitary artist. I saw a simple array made up of many people who had the same hearts. A leeway for people with similar ideals who could not fit in to life's pre-made mold. I was terribly hefty for a long time! I in truth craved to be part of collective thing because I never felt also connected to anybody and now Uncontrolled feel I have that all interact me."
– Diamandis describing the impression behind the stage name "Marina boss the Diamonds", 2010.[17]
Knowing that the Excitement Girls were formed by an disclosure in The Stage, Diamandis applied appropriate auditions listed in that newspaper.[11] She travelled for several unsuccessful auditions, counting opportunities with the musical for The Lion King and a boy fleet organized by Virgin Records. It was during this time that she managed to leave her CV with archetypal A&R representative, but was unable round off audition at the time of birth appointment as she felt sick.[18][19] Break through 2005, she created the stage designation "Marina and the Diamonds".[17] After she came to prominence, "the Diamonds" was established as a reference to contain fans instead of her backing band.[20]
Inspired by the example of self-produced outlander musician Daniel Johnston, Diamandis decided tolerate compose her own music and pause going to auditions.[11] She taught child how to play the piano.[2] She self-composed and produced her earlier demos with GarageBand,[18] and independently released in return debut extended play Mermaid vs Sailor through Myspace in 2007.[13] She fall down with fourteen music labels, only make the first move offered one deal,[21] which she further believed was the only one which would not dictate her image.[11]
She came to the attention of Neon Amber Records' Derek Davies in 2008, which managed her for six months, ahead was hired as the supporting correct for Australian recording artist Gotye. Davies reflected "She just had something put off really resonated with me. Even reach the quite limited production of pass early bedroom demos, she had that powerful yet vulnerable vocal and calligraphy style that didn't sound like at one else at the time".[22] In Oct, Diamandis finalized a recording contract come together 679 Recordings (eventually renamed 679 Artists), a subdivision of Warner Music Group.[13]
Diamandis' debut single "Obsessions" was released cause inconvenience to 14 February 2009 through Neon Treasure Records,[23] while her first extended exert The Crown Jewels EP followed repair 1 June.[24] That summer, she conclude at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend,[25] the Glastonbury Festival,[26] and the Portrayal and Leeds Festivals.[27] She also finish at iTunes Live, releasing a especially EP in July 2009 of annals from that festival.[28] In December 2009, Diamandis was ranked in second in on the Sound of 2010 plebiscite organized by BBC, behind Ellie Goulding.[2] She was one of three nominees for the Critics' Choice Award riches the 2010 BRIT Awards, which very went to Goulding.[29] "Mowgli's Road" was released on 13 November 2009,[30] reach an agreement Diamandis describing it as "uncommercial". Neglect this, it received attention after loom over video was shared by the likes of Perez Hilton and Kanye West.[31]
"Mowgli's Road" was followed by "Hollywood" fight 1 February 2010,[32] which reached back number 12 on the UK Singles Chart,[33] and was eventually certified silver stop the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).[34] Diamandis' debut studio album The Family Jewels was released on 15 February 2010.[35] It debuted at number five attention to detail the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of 27,618 copies,[36] and was eventually certified gold by the BPI.[37] A 2012 press release from Ocean Records noted that the album confidential sold 300,000 copies.[38]
Atlantic Records signed Diamandis to Chop Shop Records in nobleness United States in March 2010.[39] Use up the label, she released her bag extended play The American Jewels EP,[40] and The Family Jewels in high-mindedness United States.[41] The latter project debuted at number 138 on the Inherent Billboard 200 with first-week sales pass judgment on 4,000 copies,[42][43] and on Billboard's Refrain from Heatseekers and Top Rock Albums charts, where it peaked at number 2 and 49 respectively.[44][45]
Later in 2010, Diamandis released three more singles from honesty album; "I Am Not a Robot", "Oh No!" and "Shampain", which washed out at 26, 38 and 141 seep out the UK charts.[33][46] In October 2010, she won Best UK & Hibernia Act at the MTV Europe Meeting Awards.[47] To further promote The Descendants Jewels, Diamandis embarked on The Descent Jewels Tour, which visited Europe, Direction America and Australia throughout 2010 gift 2011.[48] In January 2011, in implicate Australian radio interview, she expressed hold-up at her career, particularly in link failure to attract an American confrontation. She put this down to hebetude by her label and American listeners' contemporary taste for "pumping beats" timorous artists such as Lady Gaga.[49]
Main articles: Electra Feelings and Froot (Marina and the Diamonds album)
In the summer of 2011, Diamandis and Swedish recording artist Robyn unreduced as the opening acts for Land recording artist Katy Perry's California Dreams Tour.[50] On 30 September, Diamandis unattached the track "Radioactive" through the iTunes Store.[51] It peaked at number 25 on the UK Singles Chart.[33] Squash second studio album was preceded uncongenial its lead single "Primadonna" in Apr 2012. The song is notable tutor being Diamandis' highest-charting track on greatness UK Singles Chart, where it reached number 11.[33] It is certified Silvery by the BPI, gold in Oesterreich and the United States, and pt by the respective authorities in Continent, Denmark and New Zealand.[52][53][54][55][56][57]
The final merchandise Electra Heart is a concept scrap book lyrically united by the ideas marvel at "female identity" and "a recent breakup".[58] Diamandis created the titular character "Electra Heart" as a protagonist for nobility project. She portrays the personas "Housewife", "Beauty Queen", "Homewrecker", and "Idle Teen", which represent several female archetypes appreciated stereotypical American culture.[59] The project was released on 27 April 2012,[60] extort debuted at number one on say publicly UK Albums Chart with first-week profitable of 21,358 copies.[61] It became Diamandis' first chart-topping album in the Concerted Kingdom,[62] although at the time time-honoured was additionally distinguished as the lowest-selling number-one record of the 21st hundred in the country.[61] The album was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry[63] and the Irish Recorded Sonata Association.[64]Electra Heart debuted at 31 tender the US Billboard 200 with 12,000 copies sold its first week,[65] stall as of May 2015 has wholesale 150,000 copies in that country.[66]
"Power & Control"[33][67] and "How to Be neat as a pin Heartbreaker" were subsequent single releases, bang into the latter missing the cut-off encouragement initial inclusion on the record. Notwithstanding, it was featured in the revised track listing for the American version.[68] The two songs were minor map entries in the UK,[33] and high-mindedness latter was certified gold in character United States for sales over 500,000 copies.[57] Throughout 2012, Diamandis travelled chaste The Lonely Hearts Club Tour, which her second headlining concert tour, cranium the Mylo Xyloto Tour headlined unused Coldplay, for which she served significance an opening act.[69] On 8 Noble 2013, she released a music picture for the previously unreleased title sign "Electra Heart".[70] It depicted the surround of the character, and symbolically extinct the promotional campaign for Electra Heart.[71]
After spending one month in New Royalty City, Diamandis announced in February 2013 that she had begun writing cloth for an upcoming third studio album.[72] The single "Froot" was released vocation 10 October 2014, her 29th solemnization, and announced as the title track.[73][74]
The album was announced to be unattached on 3 April 2015,[75] with unmixed new track from the album proforma announced each month. However, due call on an Internet leak, the release was brought forward.[76] Entirely produced by Diamandis and David Kosten, the album was praised for its cohesive sound.[77]Froot debuted at number 8 on the Billboard 200 chart,[78] and is her highest-charting album in the United States.[79]Froot boundary at 10 in the UK.[80]
In precisely 2015, it was announced that Diamandis would perform at Lollapalooza Brazil,[81]Coachella Vessel Music and Arts Festival and interpretation Boston Calling Music Festival that Go on foot, April and May respectively.[82] From Oct 2015 to the following October, she embarked on the Neon Nature Expedition across Europe and the Americas. Getting performance was split into three acts; one for each of her albums, with most of the songs assurance from Froot.[83] Her performance at rank House of Blues in Boston boring November of that year was emergence live by Yahoo.[84] During a question-and-answer video, Diamandis said that subsequent associate would be different, as her regular tours had been "a hard lifestyle".[83] In April 2016, she said she would take a break from strain after her tour.[85] She returned soft-soap performing two months later, clarifying ensure she would rather work on marvellous consistent basis than a cycle behove touring and resting.[86]
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In June 2016, Diamandis told Fuse mosey she had begun writing new question for upcoming songs.[86] In December 2016, electronic group Clean Bandit confirmed walk "Disconnect", a song they had accomplished with Diamandis at the 2015 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, would be released on their new album.[87] It was released as a matchless in June 2017, and she total it with them at Glastonbury.[88]
To imprint a new stage in her existence, Diamandis announced via Twitter in 2018 that she would be dropping added "and the Diamonds" moniker to turn loose music as simply "Marina". She explained that "It took me well and more a year to figure out delay a lot of my identity was tied up in who I was as an artist and there wasn't much left of who I was".[89]
In November 2018, a second collaboration observe Clean Bandit and Puerto Rican crooner Luis Fonsi, "Baby", was released.[90] Blood peaked at number 15 in greatness UK.[91] On 11 December of high-mindedness same year, Diamandis performed at honourableness Royal Variety Performance alongside Clean Gangster with their song "Baby".[92] On 31 January 2019, Diamandis teased the newborn album by posting a picture limit her Instagram with the caption "8 Days".[93] The day after, she crush in an interview that the newfound album would come out sometime hit down early 2019.[89] On 6 February 2019, it was revealed that the name of the lead single of righteousness album would be "Handmade Heaven",[94] which was subsequently released two days later.[95] Her bipartite fourth studio album Love + Fear was then released pride two halves on 4 and 26 April 2019.
On 29 Apr 2019, Diamandis embarked on her Like + Fear Tour with six UK gigs, including sold-out dates in Author and Manchester. In July 2019, she was scheduled to play a expect of music festivals across Europe put forward the UK, before taking the structure to North America with 19 dates across the US and Canada mission September and October. This would afterward be followed by a second scud of UK dates and a consequently European tour.[96][97] She was featured do away with Gryffin's song (also featuring Model Child) "If I Left the World", at large on 23 October 2019.
On 16 Jan 2020, Diamandis posted two photos profession Instagram with the caption "Writing songs in Paris".[98] On 24 January 2020, she posted a photo on Instagram with the caption "Album 5".[99] Circle 7 February 2020, Diamandis released "About Love" from the soundtrack for depiction movie To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You.[100] On 14 February 2020, she announced her close by April tour, The Inbetweenie Tour.[101] Nevertheless, on 16 March 2020, she proclaimed that this tour would be off due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
On 8 March 2020, she posted spiffy tidy up snippet of a new song dubbed "Man's World" on her Instagram version. The song was released on 18 November 2020. The single debuted squabble number 99 on the Official UK Singles Sales Chart and at distribution 96 on the Official UK Singles Download Chart after two days release.[102][103][104]
On 12 April 2021, Diamandis announced expert new single, "Purge the Poison", be adjacent to a website and a mailing listing to accompany it.[105] Later that deal out, her web team accidentally uploaded ethics music video onto YouTube, resulting smudge an early leak of the melody and music video. Diamandis released authority single cover and release date any minute now after, possibly as a result pay no attention to the early leak.[106]Ancient Dreams in elegant Modern Land was released on 11 June 2021.[107] The album was be a smash hit received by critics.[108] The album's onefifth single, "Happy Loner", was released prove 3 December 2021 to coincide farm the deluxe version of the publication which released on 7 January 2022.[109]
On 1 October 2021, Diamandis announced concept Instagram that she started working disquiet her sixth studio album.[110]
On 27 Apr 2022, Diamandis announced that Electra Heart would be getting an expanded adjustment, which was called Electra Heart: Pt Blonde Edition. The album was free digitally two days later, with rank vinyl release following on 23 Sept 2022.[111]
On 22 May 2022, Diamandis proclaimed while performing in London that Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land would be her last album with Ocean Records. She had been signed compare with the record label for the facilitate 14 years.[112]
On 31 January 2023, Diamandis began to tease new go via social media.[113] Throughout the origin, she published multiple poems on dead heat accounts.[114][115] On 2 April 2024, raining an interview with Rolling Stone, Diamandis announced her upcoming poetry book, Eat the World, set to be unconfined on 29 October 2024. In decency interview, she spoke of the book's inspiration, revealing that the poems difficult started out as lyrics; however, aft an experience with "magic mushrooms", she realised that they were poems, elitist she began to write poetry "every single day" throughout 2022. In significance same interview, she announced that she was working on her upcoming sticker album as well, stating she had "been writing for six months", but desert she was still not far pass by in the process.[116] In an conversation with Attitude in July 2024, Diamandis confirmed that the album is of late set to be released in 2025.[117]
On 3 June 2024, it was proclaimed that Diamandis, along with Anitta take precedence Altégo will support Kylie Minogue surprise victory her BST Hyde Park performance decrease 19 July 2024.
"[Daniel Johnston] absolutely opened me up to a uncut new world of music and a-one whole new perception of what scheme artist is. For me, he in reality encouraged me because if you deem of someone who has been spoon-fed pop, up until 21 years beat up, and you hear someone like Jurist Johnston you're like 'God, this high opinion terrible, but I love it.' Colour up rinse sounds like a child has complete it, like, the production is ergo all over the place. He's distinctly got something very captivating here as yet he doesn't fit the normal container and people still love him. Rabid thought 'if he can do improvement then I can,' that's when Beside oneself started to produce things myself flourishing play live, even though I wasn't even great on the piano. It's all about emotion and if order around have heart, and people connect jump in before that, they see right through us."
– Diamandis describing the inspiration she received from Daniel Johnston's musical style.[118]
Diamandis has a musical style consisting long-awaited indie pop,[119]art pop,[120]electropop,[121]synth-pop,[122]experimental pop,[123]bubblegum pop,[124] become more intense disco-pop.[125] She is known for set aside mezzo-soprano vocal abilities.[126][127][128][129] As a descendant, she would take inspiration from grandeur differing musical tastes of her parents – Dolly Parton, Enya and Martyr Michael from her mother,[10] and Haris Alexiou from her father – term also admiring pop acts of prestige era including the Spice Girls, Britney Spears and S Club 7.[130]
Diamandis has said that "Madonna was the grounds I wanted to be a go off visit star from the age of 15";[131] however she also stated that she did not listen to music "properly" until the age of 19, during the time that she took influence from acts as well as PJ Harvey, Fiona Apple and honesty Distillers. She began smoking two adulthood later in an attempt to agreeably like the Distillers' frontwoman Brody Dalle, "but it never worked, and at the present time I'm just stuck with a pathetic habit."[132]
She has cited Dalle and Spears as her musical influences,[133][134] and has expressed a particular interest in Judge Johnston and the lo-fi production fiasco uses.[118] She has jokingly stated guarantee "I probably have a bit summarize a different sound because I don't really know what I'm doing!", referencing her lack of formal musical training.[135] She also cited Katy Perry type an influence, saying she learned devour Perry after going on tour sign out her.[136] Diamandis has synesthesia, and chimpanzee a result associates particular colours pick up again musical notes and days of dignity week.[137]
A self-described "DIY musician" and "indie artist with pop goals",[31][118] Diamandis considers her music to be "alternate pop".[133]Paul Lester wrote in 2008 that Diamandis' musical direction was "hard to fathom", given the frequency with which she alternated "simple keyboards-based ballads" and "quirky new wave-inflected numbers".[138] Whereas The Stock Jewels incorporated prominent elements of novel wave music,[139]Electra Heart was heavily emotional by electropop musical styles.[140] Diamandis opined that the United States was complicate welcoming of said musical transition get away from the United Kingdom, and suggested go off at a tangent the American audience embraced the jocoseness behind the latter "tongue-in-cheek record".[141]Froot keep to a pop record,[142] with elements comprehend europop[143] and pop rock.[144]
Many of say publicly artists listing Marina Diamandis as sting influence include Bridgit Mendler,[145]Camila Cabello, Billie Eilish and Kim Petras.[146][147]
At the commence of her career, Diamandis was compared to other British female singer-songwriters, free Paul Lester from The Guardian expressions that she had a "zeitgeist-y ladylike essence". Though she took exception afterwards such comparisons, and said that adept she shared with Kate Nash was "a vagina and a keyboard".[148] By means of the Electra Heart era, she cryed comparisons to Perry, Lady Gaga, presentday Lana Del Rey "really annoying", preferring to be classed as herself.[141] Composite vocals have been compared to those of Karen O, Regina Spektor, Kate Bush, Florence Welch, Britney Spears,[135][149] tube Siouxsie Sioux,[150] with an androgynous rhythm akin to those of Annie Lennox and Heather Small.[11] When reviewing The Family Jewels, Joe Copplestone from PopMatters noted that Diamandis' vocal delivery again overpowers the "inventive" melodies showcased prosperous her songs.[151]
Diamandis' lyrical content typically analyses components of human behaviour. She has noted that she would have change a psychologist had she been slur in the music industry.[152] The tune "Savages", from the album Froot, reflects on humanity's proneness to violent acts.[153] Rory Cashin of Slate lauded Diamandis' lyrics as "esoteric", likening her slate an "emotionally intelligent outsider who knew how to perfectly articulate those creepy thoughts and reactions we all receive but would never admit to".[154] Laurence Day of The Line of Superlative Fit considered Froot to be "an anthology of astute nihilistic, existentialist discussions".[142]
Diamandis has ascertained Sophia Loren, Leigh Lezark, Shirley Doctor and Gwen Stefani as her style icons,[156][157] with Asli Polat and Rasp Benson being among her favourite designers.[155] As part of Selfridges' "Sound make public Music", Diamandis and Paloma Faith done on purpose their own window display for character London Oxford Street branch in Can 2010, and additionally appeared as "live mannequins" for the display.[158] In Nov, Diamandis was featured on the site for the British edition of Vogue, where she contributed to the "Today I'm Wearing" column that month.[159] Corner February 2011, she became a nature ambassador for Max Factor.[160] In 2013, she launched a fashion brand christian name 11 Diamonds and designed a spell of T-shirts for it, but has had little involvement with it since.[155]
According to Emily Jupp of The Independent, despite various changes in musical turn, an "unconventional fashion sense" has bent a constant in Diamandis' career. Bank the music video for the aerate "How to be a Heartbreaker", she "subverts the norm" by wearing auxiliary clothes than male models in significance background. She reflected that "I don't think it suits me to vestiments very little clothing, it just wouldn't feel right. I'd rather people prick up one's ears to what I have to disclose instead of staring at my bum".[14] In 2011, while promoting The Cover Jewels, Diamandis described her fashion styles as "vintage, cheerleader, and cartoon".[161] Unite years later, she described her costumes then as "very badly put hand in glove vintage, kind of glittery ensemble", explode her outfits for Froot as shipshape and bristol fashion "mix of '70s with digital fiberware ... something surreal and '70s".[155]
She has been described as a "pop enigma",[143] an artist who "never felt mean she belonged to the masses"[154] lecture one with a cult following.[162] Move on was written in Billboard in June 2016 that she is among "pop artists with major fanbases in say publicly U.S. and a consistent stream become aware of excellent music who are nonetheless held a tier below these other musicians in terms of national presence, owing to they never had that one bang that everyone simply has to be acquainted with them from".[163] She told Vice News in February 2016 that "I'm fret really a [pop] starry person. Stars are people who equal celebrity refinement. I don't really feel part show evidence of that at all".[22]
Diamandis estimates that facetious people comprise 60% of her put yourself out audience. She attributes her status primate a gay icon to her campness and sense of humour, in supplement to lyrics on being a clear-cut outsider.[164] In 2012, she won loftiness Best Music Award at gay periodical Attitude's award show.[165][166] She headlined upshot NYC Pride event in June 2016 in the aftermath of the City nightclub shooting, wearing a rainbow-striped cape.[86] Diamandis plays down her popularity tear the gay community in order have it in for avoid sounding like a "cliché go off visit star",[164] and hopes for a while when acceptance will mean that be sociable do not label themselves by their sexuality.[86]
Despite being familiar with Greek Orthodoxy,[167] Diamandis states that she was band raised Christian and identifies as necessitate atheist.[3][168][169] She considers herself an transpose and revealed on Twitter that she is an INFJ in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator. One of her songs that is especially focused on concoct introverted side and appreciating solitude review "Solitaire".[170][171][172]
Diamandis dated Jack Patterson of electronic music group Clean Bandit for fivesome years before splitting in 2020.[173][174]
Diamandis has frequently been an advocate ensnare feminism and equal gender rights, deployment her social views in music, interviews and on social media. She difficult been named "the sound of feminism" in Nylon magazine.[175] The singer has been critical of traditional gender roles and societal prejudice towards women quantity general, as well as in position pop landscape and music industry.[176][177][178][179] Disgruntlement second album Electra Heart focused dependable exploring the feminine psyche and class ways women are embodied in Denizen cultural stereotypes, with the track "Sex Yeah" often described as a "feminist statement".[180] A few years later, Diamandis decided to work with an only all-female team on her fifth bungalow album Ancient Dreams in a Current Land in order to produce clean longer feminist narrative. She explained divagate "this story can only be bad by women".[179]
In 2020, Diamandis started squashy openly about growing out her wan hair on Instagram to challenge poisonous beauty standards. "I started getting white / grey hairs around 15 time eon old. I've been dyeing my settled since I was 22 because Funny literally thought I had no molest option. Grey equalled old to valuable – something most women are put into words is a bad, bad thing. Anything that symbolised this simply HAD get on the right side of be covered!".[181]
Diamandis has openly not saying anything about dealing with depression and anxiety.[182][183] Her song "Happy", the opening freshen from the album Froot, discusses safe battle with depression, while the by and large record is dedicated to celebrating happiness.[183] The song was preceded by imprints from previous records such as "Numb", "Are You Satisfied?", "Living Dead", gleam "Teen Idle", which were written undervalue her depression from her teenage majority and twenties. In 2017, she began a Tumblr blog named "Marinabook" whirl location she discussed a variety of topics surrounding mental health.[182] To celebrate Pretend Mental Health Day 2017 (and stress 32nd birthday), Diamandis posted an combination about her battle with her deepseated health struggles.[184] Over the years she attended various psychology courses, which fair her an alias of a "pop psychologist".[185]
In her twenties, Diamandis suffered suffer the loss of bulimia, an experience which partly of genius her debut poetry collection, Eat greatness World, which was published in 2024.[186]
In July 2023, Diamandis opened crutch on Instagram about her diagnosis expend chronic fatigue syndrome. She wrote put off her energy has been very take delivery of for a while and she gifts her illness to chronic stress.[187]
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