This song is so heartbreaking I can't listen to it without crying. My family is messed up, as are both my parents. but we never speak about it, just to save face or because it's too awkward. it's usually the youngest i.e. the angsty teenager which I expect Marina to be here who addresses it or i.e. "causes a scene" or address the issues. This is why she says "typical of me to put us all to shame" or "I can't my cool." Like the "Smart Alec"-y, moody kid at the family dinner (perhaps when meeting one of her parents new spouses), ruining everything by not just pretending to be fine with everything. Parents have a real a real tendency to just gloss over everything to try not to hurt you, or more really because it's more easy for them. She talks about the secrets flying out of Pandora's box; there is still SO MUCH that was never properly explained to me, kept from me. But you WILL find out everything in the end! This also obviously refers to just general "skeletons in the closet", all the secrets we keep locked away behind the happy families "family jewels" front."
I get two things from "Family Jewels." Number one I think it's the "Happy Family" front i.e. the "picture perfect" family, with lots of nice material items, and family heirlooms that are passed through generation. But all of that just being a mask to hide the pain and dysfunction.
And probably more obviously, the family jewels being generational pain that keeps getting passed down. Dysfunction really does run through generations, as dysfunctional people are more likely to bring up dysfunctional children. My Mothers Mother was abusive to her, she was estranged to her other 2 daughters and then eventually to my Mum as well. My Dad had an overly strict upbringing, I think my Grandfather was abusive to him, although he has never said but he was always horrible to my dad when we went to visit, and his Mother died when he was a teenager. I don't want to talk about what happened in my (immediate) family, but it's awful.
Marina can't seem to break the cycle of pain that is passing down the generations. There are lyrics such as "family says I decided to live a loveless life" and "no glass slipper could ever fit, because I could never see a diamond in it" This hits me HARD. I am so scared to start a family now, after seeing how much you can really mess each other up and I almost don't see the point now after seeing how tragically things can end. "No glass slipper could ever fit" means Marina can't see any fairytale ending for her now because she could "could never see a diamond in it."
Basically, she means she can't see any hope for a happy, functional relationship or family. She can't see some fairytale, magical, fantasy ending i.e. "a diamond", she's soon too much pain and too much of what can go wrong on.
I also think "diamond" my be referring to her last name. Her parents set her no decent example for a functional family/relationship, there for she can see no examples to live up to in the glass slipper (I think by glass slipper she may mean a marriage proposal, or just invitation or suggestion to settle down into a stable relationship or family). Our relationship with our parents is our first example of a loving relationship, and she doesn't have that, therefore she see's no hope for a loving, bright, family orientated future in the "slipper."
(Obviously this is a very dramatic version of the point i'm trying to make she's like 30 now and is a stunning successful women who i'm sure would be in a relationship or at least have no trouble finding one)
I also think by "glass slipper" it may link back to this idea of "family jewels"; expensive material items being passed down through generations but she doesn't care because she see's no "diamond" in it, she see's nothing pure, nothing real in it.
I'm sure this could mean so much to so many different people, I could only begin to go into how many ways certain parts can be interpreted. Breaks my heart that it only has 4 comments.
This song is so heartbreaking I can't listen to it without crying. My family is messed up, as are both my parents. but we never speak about it, just to save face or because it's too awkward. it's usually the youngest i.e. the angsty teenager which I expect Marina to be here who addresses it or i.e. "causes a scene" or address the issues. This is why she says "typical of me to put us all to shame" or "I can't my cool." Like the "Smart Alec"-y, moody kid at the family dinner (perhaps when meeting one of her parents new spouses), ruining everything by not just pretending to be fine with everything. Parents have a real a real tendency to just gloss over everything to try not to hurt you, or more really because it's more easy for them. She talks about the secrets flying out of Pandora's box; there is still SO MUCH that was never properly explained to me, kept from me. But you WILL find out everything in the end! This also obviously refers to just general "skeletons in the closet", all the secrets we keep locked away behind the happy families "family jewels" front." I get two things from "Family Jewels." Number one I think it's the "Happy Family" front i.e. the "picture perfect" family, with lots of nice material items, and family heirlooms that are passed through generation. But all of that just being a mask to hide the pain and dysfunction. And probably more obviously, the family jewels being generational pain that keeps getting passed down. Dysfunction really does run through generations, as dysfunctional people are more likely to bring up dysfunctional children. My Mothers Mother was abusive to her, she was estranged to her other 2 daughters and then eventually to my Mum as well. My Dad had an overly strict upbringing, I think my Grandfather was abusive to him, although he has never said but he was always horrible to my dad when we went to visit, and his Mother died when he was a teenager. I don't want to talk about what happened in my (immediate) family, but it's awful.
Marina can't seem to break the cycle of pain that is passing down the generations. There are lyrics such as "family says I decided to live a loveless life" and "no glass slipper could ever fit, because I could never see a diamond in it" This hits me HARD. I am so scared to start a family now, after seeing how much you can really mess each other up and I almost don't see the point now after seeing how tragically things can end. "No glass slipper could ever fit" means Marina can't see any fairytale ending for her now because she could "could never see a diamond in it." Basically, she means she can't see any hope for a happy, functional relationship or family. She can't see some fairytale, magical, fantasy ending i.e. "a diamond", she's soon too much pain and too much of what can go wrong on. I also think "diamond" my be referring to her last name. Her parents set her no decent example for a functional family/relationship, there for she can see no examples to live up to in the glass slipper (I think by glass slipper she may mean a marriage proposal, or just invitation or suggestion to settle down into a stable relationship or family). Our relationship with our parents is our first example of a loving relationship, and she doesn't have that, therefore she see's no hope for a loving, bright, family orientated future in the "slipper."
(Obviously this is a very dramatic version of the point i'm trying to make she's like 30 now and is a stunning successful women who i'm sure would be in a relationship or at least have no trouble finding one) I also think by "glass slipper" it may link back to this idea of "family jewels"; expensive material items being passed down through generations but she doesn't care because she see's no "diamond" in it, she see's nothing pure, nothing real in it.
I'm sure this could mean so much to so many different people, I could only begin to go into how many ways certain parts can be interpreted. Breaks my heart that it only has 4 comments.