That’s why some of the songs are really bitchy. I was a walking broken heart and I was angry. But being like that makes you undesirable and bitter. At the beginning you feel really angry and you literally want to kill them. When you are hurt by someone, you go through stages of how you feel. I was more, ‘I hope you get screwed over by another girl!’ I’m not the type of girl who writes songs like ‘Baby, I really love you, please come back’. Marina told The Sun that Electra Heart is a collection that, “personifies love and what you go through when your heart gets broken.” She added that one of the inspirations for the album was a failed relationship: The title of this album contains an allusion to the term “Electra Complex”, which is a stage of development where the young female “competes” with her mother for her father’s approval if this complex is not dealt with correctly (such as having a missing father), the woman can grow up with the urge to dominate men, either being overly seductive (think of “How to Be a Heartbreaker”) or overly submissive (think “Teen Idle”.) This entire album deals with female sexuality and the unresolved Electra complex that Marina had when her father left (in reference to the album Mermaid vs. Electra Heart is the second album by Marina and the Diamonds.
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