“Hollywood” by Marina and the Diamonds

"Hollywood" was the third single from The Family Jewels, the 2010 debut album by Welsh singer Marina Diamandis, who records as Marina and the Diamonds, and she wrote it on her own. It came between "Mowgli's Road" and "I Am Not a Robot", and it's been called Eurodisco, bubblegum pop and glam rock all at once, which sounds about right for something this glossy with a sneer underneath.

The sneer is aimed across the Atlantic. Diamandis called the song a sarcastic, cynical swipe at everything commercial about America, a country whose people she loved but whose culture she felt could brainwash you. She also told the BBC it was about who she used to be, someone who let Hollywood get into her head and valued the wrong things before she changed, and that she had no wish to be a typical pop star.

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