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Contents:
- THE WEIRST, GAYT, AND MOST UNNVENTNALLY POP OF MARINA, ACRDG TO MARA DIAMANDIS
- MARA AND THE DIAMONDS ON NERVO BREAKDOWN, GAY FOLLOWG & BEG ONE OF THE ‘GREATS’
- 'THEY JT WANTED TO SILENCE HER': THE DARK SI OF GAY STAN CULTURE
- MARA GAY FOUND 10 PEOPLE CALIFORNIA, NEVADA AND 6 OTHER STAT
- MARA GAY: “ATANT LA LLENGUA, VOLEN ACTURAR LA SOCIETAT TALANA”
THE WEIRST, GAYT, AND MOST UNNVENTNALLY POP OF MARINA, ACRDG TO MARA DIAMANDIS
Mara Diamandis on the new MARINA album ‘Ancient Dreams a Morn Land,’ her bt and gayt songs, and existg outsi of mercial rad pop. * marina gay *
Belyg the sometim-exaggerated personae, though, is an emotnal wellsprg; an ally (see the bubblegum bliss of “Primadonna, ” clutched the hearts of the gays); a mystic (“Purge the Poison, ” she says, is her “wchit” song to date); and an unpromisgly vulnerable and hont sger. It got weird, nostalgic, and — duh — pretty gay.
” Those songs really helped me tablish a huge gay, LGBTQ fan base.
MARA AND THE DIAMONDS ON NERVO BREAKDOWN, GAY FOLLOWG & BEG ONE OF THE ‘GREATS’
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So, gay culture gets mp humor very well and utiliz very well. And that’s somethg that I thk me and my gay fay always really nnected on. The Weirst, Gayt, and Most Unnventnal Pop of MARINA.
In our terview, Mara chatted about how the character has more to do wh her than you thk, beg the “only gay the village” and not talkg about the dirty tle pun of her first album … until now.
I don’t know if you’ve heard, but some of your fans are gay. Tthfully, I’d say 60 percent gay, 40 percent teen girls. When did your relatnship start wh the gay dience?
'THEY JT WANTED TO SILENCE HER': THE DARK SI OF GAY STAN CULTURE
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On the first album I fely did have a gay fan base, but was much smaller, bee I’m a very flamboyant character and the shows are really theatril.
But I don’t really talk about the whole gay muny thg, bee I don’t want to be a cliche pop star sayg like, “I love my gays!
What was the gay scene like where you’re om Wal?
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(Lghs) I didn’t really see any kd of gay scene until I moved to London when I was 19. I was the only gay the village! You’ve said that you relate to your gay fans, and obvly they relate back to you.
Also, on this album, a lot of the humor has really ught the gay muny’s attentn. As far as the whole rtoon persona go, do you thk your gay dience appreciat your flamboyant look and fashn more than your mastream dience?
No, but gay people pick up on thgs a ltle b quicker and sense stuff that is potentially unrground or que cultish and is gog to bee bigger before a mastream dience will. Mara n be heard loud and clear while servg major dish on a variety of hot topics: lbian mors, Katy Perry parti, terviews she lls “plete sh” and what she thks of artists who panr to the gay muny (Ht: “It’s sultg”). A lot of the reason I thk I have a gay fan base is bee a lot of the them, and the re of the songs, are ually stemmg om somethg to do wh inty or acceptance.
MARA GAY: “ATANT LA LLENGUA, VOLEN ACTURAR LA SOCIETAT TALANA”
When we spoke 2012, you were reluctant to gh too much about your gay fan base. At the time you said, “I don’t want to be a cliche pop star sayg, ‘I love my gays!
'” When do talkg about one’s gay fan base bee a cliche? I felt that people pop e that to exprs themselv that way for lculated means bee they know the gay fan base is extremely loyal and extremely exprsive and is a tastemaker mographic. I kd of feel the same way now, bee, yeah, of urse I have a really strong gay fan base, and the fact is that is a really enjoyable factor for me to have a really strong mographic bee mak the shows a lot more fun, for one, and bee they are really exprsive.
I’m sure the gays would back me up on that! Actually, I have to say, for whatever reason, except the on that were for gay publitns, seemed like everythg was very surface layer bee of the mic that I was makg. Are you aware of how many lbians wish you were gay, though?