In todays crowded music landscape, finding great songs is a lot like finding diamonds in the rough.
You have to sift through piles and piles of rocks to reach the good stuff.
(Thats the streaming era in a nutshell.)
Marilyn Monroe in her “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” ensemble on the set ofGentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Interestingly, several songsaboutdiamonds themselves fit these criteriawhich makes sense.
The seven tracks below do just that.
With luxurious-sounding production and some of Riris fullest vocals to date, Diamonds absolutely lives up to its title.
Rihanna performed at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C., in 2013 as part of her Diamonds World Tour.
Her flirtatious lyrical delivery and iconic look from the film (that pink dress!)
have helped make Diamonds Are a Girls Best Friend a cultural touchstone for multiple generations.
Madonna famously paid homage to it in herMaterial Girl music video.
Rihanna performed at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C., in 2013 as part of her Diamonds World Tour.
Thirty-five years later, Kylie Jenner was styled asDiamonds era-Monroe for a photo shoot.
Like the gemstone itself, this song will last forever.
Its a resilient anthem about staying strong through hardships, a particularly apt message for Minogue then.
Marilyn Monroe in her “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” ensemble on the set ofGentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Listening to this song (from Sgt.
The record kicks off with Diamond Heart, a roaring ode to owning your imperfections.
I might not be flawless, but you know I got a diamond heart, Gaga sings.
Charli XCX picked (what else?) diamonds to accessorize her look at the 2020 Brit Awards.
Lyrically, its not so different from her dance-empowerment jams like Born This Way and Hair.
Shes just swapped her disco stick for a cowboy hat.
Kylie Minogue went for it—“it” being head-to-toe sparkle—for the premiere ofWhite Diamond.
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison attend a press party celebrating the “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album release.
Another important diamond in Lady Gaga’s history: The songwriter wore the famous canary Tiffany Diamond to the 2019 Oscars, where she won Best Original Song for “Shallow” fromA Star Is Born.
Prince performed on stage on the Diamonds & Pearls tour in the Netherlands in 1992.
