Marina - Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land ALBUM REVIEW
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- Опубліковано 22 чер 2021
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It's admirable that Marina tackles a number of weighty subject matters on Ancient Dreams; unfortunately, there's often not enough follow-through on the musical end.
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FAV TRACKS: ANCIENT DREAMS IN A MODERN LAND, MAN'S WORLD, PURGE THE POISON, I LOVE YOU BUT I LOVE ME MORE
LEAST FAV TRACK: GOODBYE
MARINA - ANCIENT DREAMS IN A MODERN LAND / 2021 / ATLANTIC / POP
6/10
Y'all know this is just my opinion, right?
I don’t wanna live in a melons world anymore
You copied Coralina Unrein’s comment. How does it feel to copy a comment and act like you came up with it ? Here with an interview with Pretty little liars. *shoved a microphone into her mouth*
@@syrupdagoat To be fair, Carolina’s comment still has more likes.
Still. The comments are 1 hour apart. And they have half of the likes so who knows.
Pretty little liars I recommend deleting your comment before you get sued
Be a good girl or do you want to be a failure ?
The fact that you didn't even mention "Venus Fly Trap" is a crime. It's an actual banger.
I was waiting throughout the whole review for that
he clearly mentioned it at 6:59 what are you talking about?
ITS THE BEST ONE ON THE TRACK
@@lamibonxd that’s a weird way of spelling man’s world
@@ghosty8745 no
Anthony, saying "Sorry, but it's a Man's world 6/10" is not a proper review
This was very creative, ew.
reigen
right
Agree, a 3/10 is more accurate
I actually gave it a 4/10 :(
I really wanted this one to be good, it wasn't.
melon has to learn to appreciate the flavour of Froot.
I Am Groot
LITERALLY
FROOT IS SO GOOD
Great album
i can’t believe he hasn’t reviewed her before
he had reviewed froot
the yuno review : April 2015
because he's a misogynistic
Same!!
he doesn't respect women artists enough he's an alpha male 🤪🤪
Take the 6 and flip it backwards and it's a 9.
its actually a delta symbol
@@deoxysgeneration2126 Do you play Pokemón Showdown?
@@deoxysgeneration2126 δ/10
Imma need Ajayll to wake up from the dead and review this masterpiece ASAP 😷
That’s what I’m saying!! She knows when to be blunt about shit too.
PLSSS
omg I can't wait
She’s over 🥲 thats her routine now, come once day and leave a year
giving Marina a 6 is misogyny!!!
stop
You are a male
@@moonamod3166 did you just asume my gender?
@@AlbertoTrivizo yes and that joke is the most overused shit on the face of the internet and it was never funny. And ur still a male
@@moonamod3166 ok then leave ??? lol
I don't wanna live in Melon's world after this review
Please stop giving me mean comments. My mother reads the comments I get and she cries a lot because of it. Please be nice, dear caro
@@AxxLAfriku as she should
@@AxxLAfriku To be fair, if my son grew up like you, I’d cry alot too.
a 6 for MARINA during pride month??? what are you trying to say...
LMAO
Literally NO SKIPS on this album. One of her best projects to date
FORREALL AND AMERICA ISNT EVEN IN BEST TRACKS WTF
Totally agree!!
Funny joke.
Goodbye is a skip. But yeah really no skips
@@Yassss1001 America is the least good track
Soooo....
Family Jewels for classics week?
Edit: this is his favourite project by her. Damn 😔
How do you know that's his favorite project? But yeah its her best album imo.
He definetly should do a review of it.
I think Marina is the type of artist who really masters their craft, she has combined her strenghts and made this record. I remember one interview in which she mentioned she can't belt like most pop female artists, instead she reinforces a really unique timbre and she's really confident on her lower/middle notes and falsetos/"lyrical" aproach (vowel shapes and melismas, etc). This record has surprised me as much as Froot. I also love the fact there's lot of guitars (which is very trendy and she knows that, a recored based only on this 70/80s sound trend would be boring cause I think this is kind of over) plus insane bass lines. The lyrics are deep but also funny, she doesn't take herself so serious, which is really necessary for a pop record imo. Favs: Venus Fly Trap, I love you but I love me more and New America.
the bass line on man's world goes so hard even though it's simple
marina and the diamonds > MARINA
@@voss9352 commercially maybe, but also her first two records she really didn’t have any creative control over. She wasn’t a fan of Electra Heart and how her record label made her write/sound. She has more control over what she does now, but that may have come with the risk of not having as many resources as she had with her previous records.
@@Katrina._. I have to disagree here too, I’ve been following her since the beginning, and I can say undoubtedly that her debut album the family jewels is extremely personal and unique. Her voice and lyrics on that album are what made me a fan in the first place.
@@Katrina._. tbh I don't really care. those were still her best records
no cause i was really expecting at LEAST a 7/10, this was my last straw melon 😭
The fact that you didn’t like Goodbye.
Goodbye.
JAIL OMFG THIS IS A 7 AT LEAST
Marina never disappoints. Album of the year contender for me.
Same bestie
straight facts
I think this album definitely deserves at least one Grammy nomination 🙏
🧢
Yes
not a bad review but I honestly love the more sentimental, ballad-infused approach that she does with Pandora's Box and Goodbye, she really excels at that kind of style
doesnt even mention venus fly trap and goodbye is worst track?????? are you being fr right now... this album deserves at least a 7
The Family Jewels is still her best album ever made (and it was her debut lol).
I dont think it can be topped, even if EH and FROOT have better production, TFJ is just too unique and weird in a good way.
i’ll bump TFJ and Electra Heart forever. all time classics
I fully agree.
TFJ is too chaotic and over the place lol
Agree
agreed, the family jewels is extremely chaotic- which is not everyone’s cup of tea but definitely is mine.
The family jewels > Electra heart
truth. family jewels aged the best imo
exactly
TFJ and FROOT are the big sisters, ADIAMD is always following them around, Electra Heart hops between tumblr and TikTok and L+F was adopted.
Agreed TFJ was ART
True
I'm probably biased because I'm such a huge fan of Marina's music but I love this album a lot. I thought the highlights (Purge the Poison, Ancient Dreams, Venus Fly Trap) were so great they overshadowed the weaker parts of the album (Flowers, Goodbye). Tho I definitely get your criticism, I'm just more lenient because of how much I enjoy the singles.
Flowers and Goodbye are my favorite tracks on the album-
This album was what introduced me to marina and I thought this album was overall well produced.
Goodbye is one of the best
The singles are actually bangers!
In what world are Flowers and Goodbye bad? In my opinion they're the top 5 best songs in the album.
Calling it 'Ancient Dreams in a Modern Bland' was a bit far, Anthony.
he said that because she's black
Okay, but that would be a clever way to title a negative review of this album.
while i agree that the more upbeat tracks are the highlights of the album and man’s world is absolutely one of its best songs, i think flowers and goodbye closed the album off beautifully and are far from bland. definitely a 7 or 8/10 for me
TASTELESSSS!
now i know what kanye fans feel like
Weird way to say 10/10
I respect your thoughts on the record melon but Goodbye on least favorite tracks feels like a stab in the heart. btw you should interview Marina!!
This review just killed a thousand of gay men.
thought you’d love New America and Venus Fly Trap wtffff
You know Marina is not mainstream when her pop record doesn't get the default 7 score.
In my view the things you mention don't connect. How does a critics opinion define whether an artist is relevant?
If you at least liked this album, especially the more up-tempo/anthemic tracks, I think you’d LOVE her first album ‘the family jewels’ and her third album ‘froot’.
He said that TFJ is his favorite album.
He’s reviewed Froot in a yunoreview
I feel like this album should have been 2 EPs
Ancient dreams + Modern Land
yeah one part of it is like uobeat social critism songs and the others are breakup songs
Marina was correct, I don't wanna live in a man's world anymore 🎶🎶🎶
Review The Family Jewels to make up for this, honey!!!!
It's a pop anthem. I was listening to this album this morning and I was actually shocked about the lyrics. There's some heavy topics there. She's a great artist!
Listen deeply and seriously to The Family Jewels. It's some Kate Bush / Fiona Apple / Björk - level kinda shit. Seriously. No one understood it truly cause it was a mix of indie and pop that wasn't really accepted back then. I mean there is a song about killing a dog on there which serves as a metaphor for childhood trauma. Would love to hear your take on that album.
Damn right it is
Wait which song was about killing a dog? I must’ve overlooked it 😟
@@ghosty8745 "Guilty." She's just describing a dream in which she kills a dog, but it stands in for all the shame, guilt, and self-consciousness of her childhood and youth.
exactly!! The family jewels is easily one of the best albums of the 10s. I dont think the critics that reviewed it at the time really had the palate to appreciate the album
TFJ still stands as my favorite Marina album. It switches with Froot depending on my mood. Me and my husband agreed that Marina’s music was at its best when she was dealing with battling herself. And i know that sounds awful but it just seems as though her writing is so much more meaningful and hits way different than in her last 2 albums. Like Froot was her best attempt at writing songs about being happy and learning to love herself and those songs are amazing (I’m Not Hungry Anymore is one of her best songs period) but Love + Fear just was not at the caliber of her other songs and this album increased in quality of songwriting at some points but I just don’t think it ever met her first 3 albums. Marina knows how to write how she’s feeling when she doesn’t feel good and that’s why she connected so well with fans is because her writing was so cathartic to hear, it’s just not the same, when she’s writing about being happy it just doesn’t seem like she goes passed the surface, I wish she would kind of dig deeper like she does when she’s battling herself. I want her to be able to make music about how she feels, I want her to be happy of course, I just want to see her spend more time going passed the surface level of loving and accepting herself even if it means having to wait a long time for new music. I would love an album with songs similar to I’m Not Hungry Anymore, but she won’t even give that a full release :(
idk what anthony says. venus fly trap makes this album at least an 8/10.
Imo, this album's at least a 7 or an 8. I see it as a huge improvement over her last outing, Love + Fear, while despite it having some good tracks, it sounds watered down and each track sounding the same in terms of composition compared to her first three albums. I love how Marina is able to add social commentary in her lyrics without sounding forced, and the first half of this album really shines in that (disappointed that you didn't mention Venus Fly Trap since it is a BANGER). Maybe this is also the biased Marina stan in me, but I personally liked the piano ballads on the album. Goodbye is a huge grower on me, and I see it as a more refined and grown up version of some of her older songs sharing the same theme, such as Fear and Loathing from Electra Heart, and I'm Not Hungry Anymore, her unreleased song from Froot. Funny that you compare her to Lana when almost 95% of Marina's fanbase desperately want her to do a collab with Lana and how the both of them are friends irl and having somewhat similar aesthetics, lmao.
Leading to my next point, I also see each of Marina's albums as growth in not only as a musical artist, but as a person as well. The Family Jewels, being my personal favorite from her, deals with her hating herself, and has a lot of complex themes and metaphors in each track, such as depression, alcohol addiction, childhood trauma, body image, living with a mental disorder (particularly anxiety and OCD) and trying to get by in the music industry. Electra Heart has her fighting with herself and coming to terms with her identity, and ultimately creating a persona that isn't her (there's a series of music videos that showcase Electra's storyline that's worth checking out), and also going for a more commercial pop-like sound (almost everyone on Tumblr ate this up back in the day, and that's where Marina garnered a lot of her fanbase from). Froot is her ultimately accepting herself and coming to terms with her happiness and self worth, and also the last two tracks on the album, Savages and Immortal, see a growth in her songwriting and also questioning human life and morality. Her last two albums, L+F and this, continue her growth in her self worth, and also moving away from a commercial pop sound and doing her own thing. L+F was a decent start, but Ancient Dreams really elevated that between composition and musical beats, with each song sounding different from the other, which I can safely say Ancient Dreams is a huge stepup in Marina's discography, although I do wish it was a bit longer.
TL;DR: Ancient Dreams is a damn good album, and I humbly respect your opinion, Melon. Also really take a good look at Marina's discography aside from a passing glance to understand her growth in music and personality.
Why are their serious comments in melon's channel, someone help me I don't think i belong here
This three paragraph comment on a better music review than this entire channel
actually (as a marina fan) most of her fans despise when others compare her to lana del ray lmao
WRONG
It’s her shortest and most cohesive album yet, but I still wish it were more cohesive in theme. Starting off with such socially charged bangers and then ending with these less memorable heartbreak ballads, kind of disappointing. Still enjoyed the record overall though! The lead up to this album made me a fan
Actually the heartbreak ballads makes totally sense if you see that she's talking about the abusive relationship that ~opened up her pandora box~ for those themes that the character of the album is into now.
@@wadsonsousa4161 Guess I never thought of it that way. I can see what you’re saying, but even so, the first half of the album is still the strongest in my opinion
@Wadson Sousa Totally agree with u!
I just wish the singles were spread out throughout the tracklist instead of being back to back
The Family Jewels and Electra Heart will never be topped. Those two records changed my life and the way I listen to music. Froot was her last decent record, but these latest two albums just don't hit the same way.
We need to purge the melon from our system 😤
I think her ballad lyrics were more sincere and well thought out than some of the rowdier tracks... Even if they were simple musically.
It was the other way round for me. I appreciated her so much for the anthems but the album ended with all these cliche break up songs and I was like... kay.
Never clicked so fast on a video in my life, you finally did it Anthony! You stopped neglecting the Queen and now I can finally stop forming my own opinion around her!
Edit: I take that all back, how dare you give it a 6 and call it Marina's best album
ALBUM OF THE YEAR! I SAID WHAT I SAID AND I MEANT WHAT I SAID
Honestly, I am a giant Marina fan, and I love this album, but everyone saying it deserves a 7 or 8 are just being bias. The singles are stellar, definitely some of her better work.
Thank goodness! A marina fan who can think for themselves!
REVIEW THE FAMILY JEWELS
Anthony can you review the latest Marina album "Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land"?
Ok Melon I'm gonna let you finish but Marina had just released one of the best pop album of 2021! and it's full of bangers. I do agree with some of the points you made but being an old Marina's diamond this record is by far superior to L+F and has more continuity with TFJ, Electra Heart and Froot. Is a strong 7 to a light 8 for me
Ancient Dreams is definitely the album I think is deserving of Marina’s rebrand. I love the return to her campy and quirky roots with her carefree attitude. I am proud of her bc Love + Fear definitely let me down as a fan (aside from Orange Trees, she snapped on that one).
I'm sorry Orange Trees was so boring 😭
Orange Trees is the song that got all my friends hooked on Marina
@@hafsaz4513 I see you prefer melon tree
@@muhammadzikri8492 and all that i can see, is just another melon tree
I personally think it’s her best project overall. Not her best in terms of vocally, but in every other aspect I think it for sure is her best.
melon has officially stopped neglecting marina but has officially started neglecting venus fly trap
I personally preferred the ballads to some of her other songs, like I LOVED Pandora's Box and Goodbye, but wasn't a big fan of Purge the Poison (probably going to get slander for that, but might grow to like it) or New America/Man's World. Each to their own though :) Oh, and Venus Fly Trap ROCKS.
EDIT: I love quirk lmao - never saw it as a bad thing
Strange woman
It's fine! I absolutely love Purge the Poison, but I believe this album is so brilliant that it talks to people of all ages, cultures etc..
Most of the people my age I know like Marina, loves PTP, and then some of the younger ones like other songs better, etc..
I like these reviews and I believe it's genuine, but let's remember that his review comes from his experience with the album. For which every person has a different one.
@@Eddypots Absolutely - and to be fair, my opinions on songs change all the time. PTP isn't awful at all, don't get me wrong, I LOVE the message, it's just not my favourite melody of hers. This is the thing about music, it's so subjective, which makes it hard to review. But scratch what I said about Man's World - it is good ahah, just got overshadowed a bit by some of the others imo
Dunno why the ballads are considered to be the weak part of the album. Yes, they're not bangers and one could argue that it's not what you'd expect after an explosive and powerful first half, but I really think that one half compliments the other. As if the 2nd half, wants to focus on the emotions of the artist and her inner world, instead of, you know, the actual world. And even though the melodies and the lyrics maybe are a bit repetitive, I strongly believe that each and every song has a purpose and has something different to say. And all that leads to Goodbye, a g r e a t song about self acceptance, forgiving and moving on. She says Goodbye to her former self and now she's wiser, more (emotionally) mature and ready to conquer the world, as promised in the 1st half of the album. Great piece of art, loved every single bit and one of my favourite projects of this year...
@@alexchatzi9107 Really good analysis - like that a lot. The ballads definitely fit within the album of ancient dreams (some of these ancient dreams of Marina's could allude to past relationships and "ancient" feelings of wanting a future with this man). I liked that after all these songs with strong messages, she came back to very personal feelings, and closed out with simpler melodies. We can talk about worldwide issues all we want (it's incredibly important), but we shouldn't neglect our own individual selves and needs. It seems as though the natural/environmental imagery throughout - 'Venus Fly Trap', 'Flowers' etc - ties the self to the wider world. We can only help solve all these issues if we grow as people first, and take care of our own emotional states.
It's a Lockdown album that explores the personal and the political. Marina said lockdowns gave her time to self reflect on the sociopolitical state of things as well as her own personal life (she moved continent and split with her boyfriend). This album captures that experience. It can't be purely politically-charged because the personal is just as important.
I think Froot was her Magnus opum
So basically he liked everything rocky and hated all 4 ballads??? What does he have against ballads, they were beautiful
Not as hitting and unique as her anthems
6/10 WHAT THE HELL........
Yeah, too generous wtf
@@AdlRRainboX stfu
my girlfriend is gonna be pissed
Damn I really was hoping for a strong 7 - light 8, maybe the next album. I am still shocked however at Goodbye being the least fav damn
More like a 8’s dream in a 6’s land
Do a redux review of emotion by Carly Rae jepsen and give it a 10
Hi Mikan Tsumiki, SHSL Baseball Star
This is my favourite album of 2021 so far
Who’s seeing her in concert next year?
damn i really wanted to be mad at you for this one melon but unfortunately i agree, this album is a little disjointed - stacking the singles in the first half with none of the other songs in the second half being anywhere near as good was a weird choice. the singles are absolute bops but the album as a whole is just ok.
Same :(
this is probably never gonna be seen but I really enjoy your content even if I don't agree with every rating you give. being able to express my music opinions and discuss with a fanbase that seems to get me and won't get hurt if I dont like something they love. i hope you know how much your channel means to me. love you melon, never stop making great videos.
Ur comment is so wholesome :3
OMG. THIS IS MY FAV ALBUM THIS YEAR 😭
I agree to a fault, I would have given a 7 because I really like the musical blend she goes for. A lot of the poppier songs remind me of mid-2000's dance music mixed with 80's throwback instrumentals. Though I also agree it's too easy to find tracks like these out there in the world that do the vibe better. Marina has always followed her own weird muse into 1,000,000 different directions, and I respect her for it.
Can we all just forget that Love + Fear happened? She made up for it with ADIAML
THINK, MELON. Why would you have ancient dreams if you’ve been awake for several years busily reviewing music?
did I just hear melon use the word camp ??? MELONS AN ALLY CONFIRMED /lh
melon is a very strong ally ⭐
Marina gave us a near perfect album this year my guy
goodbye is literally one of the best songs on this album...
Ikr
It was my first fav
@@sofiaaaaa888 me too!!
@@nellies that song made me sob on first listen... at the first few seconds i wasnt a fan of the instrumental but as soon as the second goodbye hit i was in love. i think the second verse really secures the track as one of my favourites from her.
This might be the first time I've heard someone call Love + Fear ambitious 😅
Mmm, I thought this was a solid 8, never heard of her before I checked this album out recently and I was pleasantly surprised. I liked the lyrical topics she was exploring too, not used to that from music that sounds like this.
for me personally it was an 8 and one of my favorite albums of hers. i expected at least a 7 smh
pandoras box and goodbye were actually my favorite tracks haha. They remind me of family jewels and I guess I just don't listen to enough pop music to have the problems you were having with them
Please go back and review some of her older albums!
Anthony, you're sounding better today! Hope you are feeling better now.
this isnt a comment on the album but what music do you listen to other than new albums to critique? do you have like a list of albums you'll listen to on a normal day?
I saw it as a Froot 2.0. A return to form for me as it felt more memorable then the last record.
he really gave this a 6 and didn't even mention venus fly trap? where's the taste??
Good review. I think I'd have it a bit higher, somewhere in the 7 or light 8 range, but I also might have just leaned heavily on the songs I liked. You've given me new things to think about on the next listen.
Do a classic review of Joni Mitchell's Blue.
Are you gonna review the new Rise Against or Garbage albums?
I didn’t find it bland… but I’ll respect your opinion
FINALLY he reviews marina
thanks anthony. I will listen to the album with a closed mind based on your opinions.
I love it, probably an 8 for me. I can definitely see the faults, but I find them easy to look past.
I think I'm especially happy with it as it's coming straight after my least favourite of her projects.
I felt heavy Sinead O'Connor vibes coming from this record, but yeah overall I found it to be very enthralling and moving and while the lowkey parts weren't my favorite, some of them did hit for me and I ended being pleased by this record.
NOT THE MARINA SLANDER
I don't wanna live in melons beautiful dark twisted fantasy anymore
Melon thanks so much for reviewing this! Now please review Audrey nuna's mixtape, Qveen herby and Griff's mixtape One Foot In Front of the Other for the YUNO Review please and thank you...
omg it's the first time he's reviewed Marina, right?
I feel like Marina’s political critique lyrics are forced and it feels quite off and disconnected from the real world. Still pretty good album though, shout out to I Love You But I Love Me More and Venus Fly Trap.
yeah, I think it would have been cool if her takes weren't so shallow. More of a 💕girlboss💕 moment than an actual thoughtful critique. It kind of felt like Lana del rey's woke posts: oddly reactionary.
I enjoyed the subtlety she had an Electra Heart. These lyrics are too literal.
yeah, that's what puts me off from this one. great production, great singing, hamfisted lyrics that come across as more tone-deaf than anything. really love her high notes on highly emotional people though.
R u kidding? The power anthems are what I loved the most about this record. She was doing something different from what ppl usually sing about in pop
@@jiribb9300 Yeah, but for me, someone who listens to songs with political or social commentary in them, felt Marina’s lyrics like she just want’s to attract audience of people that are against opression instead of actually making genuine lyrics about problems in society. Peak was her ,,capitalism made us poor” when she literally has a job and millions thanks to current system
The title track is the best on the album
New America is the best track imo
@@mirroredheart7292 the songwriting is better on ADIAML then new America, did u even hear what melon said about the chorus 💀
@@J7nty lol I watched the video, am I supposed to echo everything Melon says? I disagree, I think that if not the best it’s at least top 3 on the album.
you should review her first studio album, the family jewels
I’m screaming, not Cleopatra 2525 😂❤
AYYY FINALLY OUR GIRL GETS REVIEWED BY MELON
Now i kind of agree in your opinion but idk man the highlights on this album are really HIGHLIGHTS you know? I can't give this album less than a 7 but i get your point, thanks for the review as always
why have you never reviewed marina before? >:(