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Originally posted by OprahIsBlack
I actually love the diamonds part. It reminds me of a bit of Natasha Leggero's stand-up, her stand up persona is a caricature of a spoiled clueless rich girl which I kind of feel like is what Natalia was going for on this track. Here's the bit Natasha does:
"I know it's hard to focus on comedy with all these environmental disasters going on. Can you believe we're running out of diamonds? How are we going to make more diamonds? The only way I know how to make a diamond is to jerk off an old man!"
Maybe check out a clip or 2 of her stand-up and you might get it? The point of the track is aspiring to be totally rich when you're not, although the caricature of the rich person that is being painted is that of someone obnoxious.
If you get it, you get it, if not, idk.
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That's just it, there's not a lot to get.
Juxtaposing vapid caricatures with "dark" themes and imagery is as tired and cliche as it gets. We heard it with The Fame, Electra Heart, Marilyn Manson in the 90s, Natalia's first album and countless other acts who thought it would be "edgy" to make a statement about shallow celebrity/internet/youth/consumer culture in the most obvious way possible.
She adds nothing to the formula beyond her self-conscious, try-hard, late-to-the-party fashiongoth.tumblr.com aesthetic. The least she could've done was make this catchy.
I love that you kept the "what the **** am I doing with my life" part. Exactly what I wanted.