Marina and the Diamonds (Marina Diamandis) is out with the music video to her new single ‘Primadonna’, the first release from the Welsh singer-songwriter’s second studio album ‘Electra Heart’, out on Elektra Records this summer.

‘Electra Heart’ was written and recorded in London and Los Angeles over the last 18 months while on tour. Featuring new self-written tracks, Marina handpicked a close group of collaborators to write and produce with including Dr Luke, Rick Nowels, Liam Howe, Greg Kurstin and Diplo.

Marina said about the new album, “It’s an ode to dysfunctional love. I based the project around character types commonly found in love stories, film and theatre, usually ones associated with power and control in love, as opposed to weakness or defeat. I guess it was a way of dealing with the embarrassment that, for the first time in my life, I got ‘played’. Rejection is a universally embarrassing topic and ‘Electra Heart’ is my response to that. It is a frank album.”

Marina is now set to embark on a worldwide tour as the main support on Coldplay’s upcoming tour. U.S. dates below:
July 29 | Boston, MA, TD Garden
July 30 | Boston, MA, TD Garden
August 1 | Detroit, MI, Palace of Auburn Hills
August 3 | East Rutherford, NJ, Izod Center
August 4 | East Rutherford, NJ, Izod Center
August 7 | Chicago, IL, United Center
August 8 | Chicago, IL, United Center
August 10 | Minneapolis, MN, Xcel Energy Center
August 11 | Minneapolis, MN, Xcel Energy Center

Marina and the Diamonds is out with the video to her new single ‘Shampain’, the fifth release off the Welsh singer songwriter’s debut studio album ‘The Family Jewels’, out now on 679 Recordings. Watch the Kim Gehri directed video via MySpace below.

Marina and the Diamonds (Marina Diamandis) reckons she won’t ever go on ‘The X Factor’ after the autotune scandal, but says she’s looking forward to touring America. “I would never do ‘X Factor’. Not in this country,” she told ITN. “Not after that. I’m not even laughing at it. I think it’s terrible. That’s proof that we as a nation are treated as idiots. That’s what we’re being fed. It’s dumbing everything down for everybody, even more so if that’s possible with ‘X Factor’.” Watch the clip via YouTube below.

Marina and the Diamonds (Marina Diamandis) is out with the music video to her new single ‘Oh No!’, off the Welsh indie pop singer’s debut album ‘The Family Jewels’, out now on 679. The single is released in the K on August 2nd. Watch the Kinga Burza directed video via YouTube below.

Marina and the Diamonds performed a stripped down version of her new single ‘Hollywood’ in a new video posted at her YouTube. The song is released on February 1st via 679/Atlantic and is taken from her debut album ‘The Family Jewels’, out on February 15th. Watch it below.

Marina and the Diamonds is out with behind the scenes footage from the set of her video for ‘Hollywood’, directed by Kinga Burza. ‘Hollywood’ is released on February 1st via 679/Atlantic, and is taken from ‘The Family Jewels’ - released two weeks later.

“We’re filming it in a house which is basically like a palace in West London. It’s really luxurious. The premise of the video is basically celebrating the idea of the American dream, where it’s come from,” the British pop singer explained. “We’re kind of referencing a lot of American characters which are stereotypes but are great stereotypes and really add to the culture. I just wanted to pick people who embodied and represent what the American dream is all about.”

Watch the clip via her YouTube below.

Marina and the Diamonds (Marina Diamandis) is out with the music video to her new single ‘Hollywood’, taken from the Welsh singer-songwriter’s debut album ‘The Family Jewels’, released on February 15th via 679/Atlantic. Watch it via YouTube below.

NME spoke with Marina and the Diamonds on the Fly 53 NME Radar tour, where she talked about how the tour has been going, offered her thoughts on the tour’s other bands, preferring the stage to the studio, and not feeling she’s had a “massive year”. Watch the brief interview via YouTube below.