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Marina and the Diamonds: 'I feel a failure'
Published Friday, Jan 7 2011, 13:01 GMT | By Mayer Nissim

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The singer, real name Marina Diamandis, told Undercover that she could have achieved more in the past 12 months and that she is "p*ssed off I'm not bigger".
Marina said: "It had been a big year but I feel more like a failure than a success. I haven't done anything I wanted to.
"For someone who wants to be one of the best artists of her generation I've done f**k-all."
She added: "The Americans, I absolutely adore my fanbase there, but it has been built purely on me and my online presence. The label haven't really promoted me I'm afraid.
"It's very difficult. It's not really the label's fault. The pop landscape there is so difficult to penetrate and as you go into this danceworld now...
"Dance music was quite underground for a long time in America but now because of GaGa and people like that it has been brought back. You need to be in that pumping beats area and I am certainly not."
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