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Grace Jones: Private Life - The Compass Point Sessions (Island)

Amy Linden, Fi, 1998

OF ALL THE words that are over and misused, diva is surely at the top of the heap. Once an adjective related to describing the truly difficult and totally imposing, Diva has been reduced to a almost completely meaningless word, becoming short hand for any female singer with either a bad case of PMS or a booming voice.

Total word count of piece: 798

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