Who’s higher equipped to talk diva than Mariah Carey? The “Fantasy” singer graced today’s episode of Meghan Markle’s podcast, Archetypes, for a speak that functioned as a quick etymology of the word diva. (The meaning of the phrase — from “goddess” in Latin — is the most important instructional takeaway, alongside with the reclamation of the term through queer and minoritized communities as a skill of self-invention).
While Markle, who says she’s wearing a mother costume blanketed in canine hair, traces the shift from diva’s high-quality connotation (think VH1’s Divas Live) to its use as a pejorative, she and Carey discuss about their experiences growing up as mixed-race people, marriage, and some tragic run-ins with stylists confounded by their hair textures. Carey even goes so some distance as to say that Markle has “diva moments.” “It stopped me in my tracks … when she referred to as me a diva!” the duchess narrates. “You couldn’t see me, obviously, but I, I started to sweat a little bit,” she says close to the give up of the episode. For Markle, the time period is fraught (hence her making a podcast episode to unpack it). “She supposed diva as a compliment,” she continues.
“But I heard it as a dig. I heard it as the phrase diva as I suppose of it. But in that moment, as she defined to me, she supposed it as chic, as aspirational. And how one very charged word can mean something extraordinary for each of us — it’s amazing to me.”
Carey needless to say isn’t afraid of some thing bad assumptions human beings have about divas; at some point of the Zoom interview, she admits to sporting the identical silk embroidered robe she wore to the BET Awards the preceding evening, alongside with some drip down her neck — canary diamonds, to be precise — paired with naked feet.
“I’m still carrying this because I like how it appears and I don’t care,” she tells Markle. Because her mother was an opera singer, Carey says, diva ran in her blood, even though for some, that may additionally not be a suitable thing. “A diva for me, they mean you’re a profitable female usually, however also, and I, forgive me if we’re now not allowed to say the B-word, however a B-I-T-C-H,” she explains.
“Like it’s no longer k for you to be a boss. It’s no longer k for you to be a strong woman.” Carey says she “always felt other,” so she “wanted to be that glamorous because I felt like an unsightly little female because I did now not fit in with anybody.” “People, people, strive for divadom,” Carey provides as a diva affirmation. “Revel in it!” Wear last night’s robe on Zoom calls!
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