Internationally acclaimed, award-winning artist and author MARINA returns with the release of her highly anticipated sixth studio album, PRINCESS OF POWER, out today via Queenie Records/BMG. This fearless new era reclaims her power and sensuality, with PRINCESS OF POWER standing as her boldest, most unapologetic statement yet.
Following two back-to-back performances at the Coachella Main Stage this spring, MARINA will celebrate the release of PRINCESS OF POWER, performing live tonight at WorldPride Festival in Washington, D.C. and tomorrow at Governors Ball in New York. Additional summer festival appearances include Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Osheaga, Outside Lands, All Things Go and Austin City Limits ensuring fans everywhere can experience the power of MARINA’s new era in person.
Alongside today’s release, MARINA also shares the Olivia De Camps-directed official music video for the album’s luminous, anthemic new single, “I <3 YOU,” a shimmering, synth-driven anthem about love. “One of my lessons in the last few years is that love — and showing love — is not a weak thing,” she says. “Of all the superpowers we have as humans, love is our greatest one.”
If 2021’s Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land was MARINA’s outward gaze at a fractured world, PRINCESS OF POWER is a fearless inward journey — a manifesto of survival, resilience, and radical self-belief. “I’ve accessed this new part of myself,” she explains. “It’s really a rebuilding-my-life-from-scratch type of album. Which is probably why it has an exciting energy.”
The anthemic title track sets the tone of the album, “I lived the sweet/and I lived the sour/been living life/locked up in tower/but now I’m blooming like a flower,” she sings, while on the devastatingly honest “EVERYBODY KNOWS I’M SAD,” MARINA navigates vulnerability and strength in equal measure. Standout single “BUTTERFLY” — already boasting over 20 million global streams — captures this essence perfectly with its defiant refrain: “So I’m saying goodbye, goodbye/Watch me grow from afar as I turned into a butterfly.“
PRINCESS OF POWER marks MARINA‘s first release as an independent artist on her own label, Queenie Records (in partnership with BMG) — a testament to her unwavering creative autonomy since her earliest days. The album also features the fiery “CUNTISSIMO,” a tribute to powerful women who own their sexuality, which Rolling Stone called “an anthemic pop song inspired by glamorous, brave, confident women” with Dork and NME lauding the track “empowering” and “unapologetic” respectively, and “CUPID’S GIRL,” a playful, irresistible pop banger with a psychedelic twist, hailed by V Magazine as a “seductive pop anthem.” Throughout the record, MARINA reclaims female desire and identity in a way that is wholly her own.
Speaking about her hopes for this new album, MARINA reveals, “So often, women don’t think they’re allowed to feel their sexuality in a way that doesn’t involve how it looks for men. They feel that it’s been co-opted – I would love to be able to free younger women of that, the feeling that our bodies don’t quite belong to us. You can look or dress a certain way, but that doesn’t mean that internally, you feel free,” she says. “And that’s what I’m after.”
2025 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
06/06 – World Pride Music Festival – Washington, DC
06/07 – The Governors Ball – Queens, NY
06/13 – Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival – Manchester, TN
08/02 – Lollapalooza – Chicago, IL
08/03 – Osheaga Music and Arts Festival – Montreal, QC
08/08 – Outside Lands – San Francisco, CA
09/28 – All Things Go – Columbia, MD
10/04 – Austin City Limits Music Festival – Austin, TX
10/11 – Austin City Limits Music Festival – Austin, TX
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