DIVAZZ

DIVAS. Now, in my youth, I had learned that the term diva was for operatic singers. However, as I grew older I heard the word increasingly associated with female celebrties: Mariah Carey, Donna Summer, even M[r]s. Jennifer Lopez [-Anthony] (Is anyone else surprised she's still with Marc Anthony? I didn't know one COULD downgrade from post Gigli Ben Affleck).


I didn't, at the time, think it was a good thing. Usually they used "diva" to describe their need of white rooms, candles, only green M&Ms, small servant boys (no less than 4 feet tall but no more than 5 feet, please) in their trailers. Surely high maintenance COULD NOT be a positive, . . . right?



There must be something wrong with my definiton, because as I sauntered out of my gym today, feeling healthy, yet craving a krispy kreme doughnut, I saw a girl no more than eleven with a sparkly diva shirt and a [matching] diva hat (I do give her props for her matching skillz at such a young age; at eleven, I still thought that floral print and stripes matched, and there was nothing wrong with highwater pants). This girl is adorable! Why would she want to be known as someone who is demanding, or an opera singer? Maybe she has a beautiful voice, but somehow i doubt that is the message she is trying to convey.



I must consult WIKIPEDIA: knower of all important/unimportant trivia.



"A "diva" is a celebrated female singer. The term is used to describe a woman of outstanding talent in the world of opera, and, by extension, in theatre, cinema, and popular music The meaning of diva is closely related to that of "prima donna"."


SEE: Prima Donna: "Legendarily, these "prima donnas" (prime donne in Italian) were often regarded as egotistical, unreasonable and irratable, with a rather high opinion of themselves not shared by others."


. . . I AM RIGHT!


The question now is, why the hell are people parading around with diva stamped to their shirt/jewelry/attitude. . . especially the future of America?














Is the goal to dissuade anyone who ever may want to enter a relationship with the diva? Maybe it is secretly the work of young girls' fathers, trying to keep boys away from their daughters, by referencing her neediness and "egotistical, unreasonable and irratable" nature. Somehow I doubt that is the goal since the girls wearing such "divawear" end up looking like .... let's use the phrase "ladies of the night" or NOCD (Not Our Class, Dear)




These girls have just attended a "diva party," and they totally don't seem like a girl who, inte the future, will make her boyfriend call her "princess."

In conclusion: The phrase "diva" needs to die unless being used by singers of arias; I already hate people my own age with superiority complexes. Must we create a generation of more of them?


Please, parents...


sterilize your children.

g$