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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Rmx256 (talk | contribs) at 20:37, 8 July 2009 (→‎Modern versus traditional context?: new section). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

As far as I know the word DIVA was first used for MAria Callas after her firts performance of the aria 'Casta Dive' in Bellini's opera 'Norma'. She was truely divine. User (politi)

'Diva' as an insult

The word "diva" is often used as an insult to describe performers (actors, singers, or any other such entertainers) who, often after an initial success, begin to hold a high opinion of themselves--expecting special treatment, etc...

Example: Jamie Fox has often been described as a "Diva" due to his behavior after his oscar win as seen on the set of miami vice and exemplified by his traveling with an entourage.

I think a section should be added to this article covering this usage.

How is that an insult? Boipussi 11:56, 16 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

To me this sounds like another improper appropriation of vocabulary by American media. See usage of 'literally', 'begging the question', 'irregardless' &c. It should not be added to the wiki (at this point in time at least.bnfnbvn bvngfnb0:25, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Actually, the word "Diva" is an insult in Sweden. I'm looking at that in Nationalencyklopedin (the biggest encyklopedia in Sweden) right now.83.176.233.64 17:46, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dames

Shouldn't it be Dame Joan Sutherland to match the other Dames in the list???

  • You bet my friend!

Categories

Should this article belong to the "Divas" category?
--Jerome Potts 09:03, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Modern versus traditional context?

The word Diva has been used in an operatic context for at least a couple of hundred years, with it's more modern usage (in my experience) as some feminine synonym of 'hustla' or whatnot being only fairly recent. So should this article really begin with the sentence "A diva is a female version of a hustla"? The first non-opera reference that I can remember is Annie Lennox's album Diva from the early 1990s, and then it was applied to Whitney Houston after The Bodyguard and it's soundtrack's success; only very recently (as in since the turn of the millennium, as far as I can tell without actually searching) has it been applied to the hip-hop genera in any way, which I suppose would allow it to be the synonym to 'hustla.' (Yes, Will's moter and sisters on "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" called each other Divas, but that is a one-off as far as I can tell, and I don't think that they meant to call each other 'hustla!')

Modern information is required in the wiki, of that I am certain. However, in just the few minutes that I just took looking through online dictionaries, the term Diva is not a synonym for 'hustla.' Only once ( [1] ) could I find it referring to anything other than a singer, and I think that needs to be clearly stated. the infamous rmx (talk) 20:37, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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