Teen Idle

“I wanna be a bottle blonde.
I don’t know why but I feel conned.
I wanna be an idle teen,
I wish I hadn’t been so clean.
I wanna stay inside all day,
I want the world to go away.
I want blood, guts and chocolate cake,
I wanna be a real fake.

Yeah, I wish I’d been, I wish I’d been a teen, teen idle,
Wish I’d been a prom queen fighting for the title
Instead of being sixteen and burning up a Bible,
Feeling super, super, super! suicidal.
The wasted years, the wasted youth,
The pretty lies, the ugly truth.
The day has come where I have died
Only to find I’ve come alive.

I wanna be a virgin pure,
A Twenty-first century whore.
I want back my virginity
So I can feel infinity.
I wanna drink until I ache,
I wanna make a big mistake.
I want blood, guts and angel cake;
I’m gonna puke it anyway.

Yeah, I wish I’d been, I wish I’d been a teen, teen idle,
Wish I’d been a prom queen fighting for the title
Instead of being sixteen and burning up a Bible,
Feeling super, super, super! suicidal.
The wasted years, the wasted youth,
The pretty lies, the ugly truth.
The day has come where I have died
Only to find I’ve come alive,
Come alive.
I’ve come alive.

I wish I wasn’t such a narcissist,
I wish I didn’t really kiss
The mirror when I’m on my own.
Oh God, I’m gonna die alone.
Adolescence didn’t make sense,
A little loss of innocence.
The ugliness of being a fool…
Ain’t youth meant to be beautiful?

Yeah, I wish I’d been, I wish I’d been a teen, teen idle,
Wish I’d been a prom queen fighting for the title
Instead of being sixteen and burning up a Bible,
Feeling super, super, super! suicidal.
The wasted years, the wasted youth,
The pretty lies, the ugly truth.
The day has come where I have died
Only to find I’ve come alive,
Only to find I’ve come alive,
Only to find I’ve come alive,
Come alive.”

_{[ Teen Idle – Marina & The Diamonds ]}


Sachertorte and a burning Bible: yeah I took the lyrics quite literally. Plus my How To Be A Heartbreaker t-shirt which I have designed and got printed myself.
Teen Idle is my hands down favourite song by Marina & The Diamonds: I mean, I guess we can all relate with the lyrics when we recall our teens. I’ve been thinking of a way of turning it into a photo and sometime last month the idea for a miniseries stuck. So I purchased a Bible, waited for a gloomy afternoon, bought some chocolate cake and… FIRE!
More coming soon…

Photo, concept, editing, model, styling, grooming: GothicNarcissus Photography