In an interview with VICE, Marina revealed that she worked on the album for "months" with a producer she had worked with before, but came to the realisation she wanted to make a "live sounding" record. Forget would also be a last minute song, as it was written in February 2014, following the BRIT awards. Froot, despite being the title track, was one of the last to be written. Savages was written after the Boston Bombings in April 2013. One of the first songs to be written was Better Than That, along with Gold, which was written in September 2012 whilst on tour. Diamandis stated she wrote 15 tracks for FROOT, but only recorded 14, this unrecorded song would be When You Take Away Control. She said the best experience about the album was writing the album entirely by herself and not answering to anyone, and believed it improved her confidence as a songwriter as she listened to her instincts and believed in her own abilities. Instead of being at her piano and trying to do the chords, melody and lyrics she would make the music by itself and then do the melody and lyrics on top of that. After releasing a high collaborative album, she wanted to write in a different way. Marina started writing for her third album two months after the release of Electra Heart. I used to listen to my team a lot, and I think that came from a lack of experience and maybe not being very self-assured, whereas now. so that no one's going to tell you what your identity is. Whoever you are as an artist, you have to know who you are so that you can do what you want to do. I think one of the biggest challenges was saying what I wanted to do for once. So because of that, on FROOT, I wanted to create the whole thing. In the past because I was new and I was someone who really needed praise, I very much listened to other people, perhaps when I shouldn't have. I wanted to have its own identity, like a non-entity. I didn't want the name of the album to hold any previous connotation. The title is a deliberate misspelling of "fruit": Describing the track as "a very positive song" about happiness, readiness to love, and "living the best life that you can." This was an idea she felt had never been talked about in her music before. Marina said the title track was one of the last songs to be written for the album, and one of the most difficult, she wanted the album to be named after one of the songs and felt Froot fit the most in terms of how she was feeling and what she wanted it to symbolise. It's a relief putting it into songs, but with Electra I loved it, because I was like, 'I hope he fucking hears these songs!' Whereas with this one I was like, 'I hope he fucking doesn't.' Name With Electra Heart, I was definitely the heartbroken.
In an interview with Nylon, Marina further expanded on how her previous relationship inspired parts of FROOT: That's what I'm here for, that's what I'm interested in doing.
To see that progression is really satisfying. It's because you become attached to them, and you hope that good things are happening for them and certain things are mended in them. I mean I love seeing that in artists I'm a fan of. For the fan, to see how someone progresses. for me it's a way of chronicling my life. It doesn't matter if it's commercial or not commercial, a product or not a product. This time, because I'd had a very different experience in a relationship, I'd written about different things. I'm just thinking about relationships as they're the biggest source of creativity. I really want to enjoy life, whatever that life entails. It's all to easy to complain and be cynical about things, but I feel like this emotional shift I've had means I don't feel like that anymore. Maybe it's the same sort of thing I'm talking about in that I want to live an amazing life and I want to live the best life that I can. It sounds very uninteresting, but I think when you aren't happy with yourself you tend to be much more cynical about life. In an interview with Line of Best Fit, Marina said: Background For a timeline on the creation and release of FROOT click here.