I find how Marina's other songs in the album, "Electra Heart", really spotlight rejection, hurt, and scarring. This song, in my opinion, closely relates to "How to be a Heartbreaker", but in this one she details her struggles a bit more. In "Homewrecker", she expresses how she felt as though she was losing her fight with love. She moves from boyfriend to boyfriend, thinking that each one is "the one", until she's proven wrong by heartbreak. She has a difficult time sticking to boyfriends, as the good ones are never easy to get, and the easy ones are never good in the end. She's gotten almost to the point of being sick and tired of relationships, and she now becomes the heartbreaker (homewrecker) of the relationship in order to save herself from rejection. Even so, deep down inside she wants to start over, and she wants true love to happen to her to fulfill her dreams.
I find how Marina's other songs in the album, "Electra Heart", really spotlight rejection, hurt, and scarring. This song, in my opinion, closely relates to "How to be a Heartbreaker", but in this one she details her struggles a bit more. In "Homewrecker", she expresses how she felt as though she was losing her fight with love. She moves from boyfriend to boyfriend, thinking that each one is "the one", until she's proven wrong by heartbreak. She has a difficult time sticking to boyfriends, as the good ones are never easy to get, and the easy ones are never good in the end. She's gotten almost to the point of being sick and tired of relationships, and she now becomes the heartbreaker (homewrecker) of the relationship in order to save herself from rejection. Even so, deep down inside she wants to start over, and she wants true love to happen to her to fulfill her dreams.