.Normani just gave the classic Marilyn moment a major update.
Diamonds", she would riff off a scene that has been hyper-analyzed by scholars of Hollywood history. And it works, because rather than present herself as a simple Marilyn Monroe simulacrum, Normani samples and remixes the original source material with the robust choreography that made her a star in the first place. And, of course, she's reinforced by the fierceness and fearlessness of Megan Thee Stallion.
“Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” is often considered to be a song that sends a message of enjoying the pleasures of unmitigated materialism. “Material Girl” is a callback to that particularscene and Monroe’s moment in Hollywood, but also an ode to the capitalist tendencies that were running the world. Who needs men when you can have...money?
“Diamonds,” which samples the lyrics and interpolates a minor portion of the melody of “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” clearly follows in the footsteps of the song by which it is inspired. But rather than rely on as the “you-go-girl, lean-in, badass” brand of feminist tropes that plagued the
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