If you look up prima donna in a dictionary, the first definition you get is “the chief female singer in an opera or opera company”. These days she might be called a “diva” or “leading lady”. It’s actually a positive description.
The second definition, however, deals with ego. The dictionary I’m looking at says “a very temperamental person with an inflated view of their own talent or importance”. Wow…that’s not very flattering when you get right down to it. And you know what?
I’ll bet the second definition of prima donna is the one you’ve heard of or heard used most often. Am I right? Yeah, most of the time when you hear it used, someone has a certain look on their face…and their voice gets all nasal…and you hear “she’s SUCH a prima donna”. To really drive home the point, they emphasize “such”.
I wrote a little poem, when I was in college, while I was feeling somewhat literary returning back to my dorm after my English composition class. Once I wrote all the words, I went down to the basement of my dorm where there was a piano in a tiny study room. I sat down and composed a song. I still have the printed words in a small, spiral notebook…complete with chords written out in the phrases. As I read it today, I could actually remember it. I won’t sing it for you, but here are the words. See if you can tell which definition I was using for…
Prima Donna’s Song
Think of the music and me.
I will be the song you hear.
Close your eyes and deeply listen.
For you, the song will be sweet.
Notes will travel in a caravan
Like delicate flowers
Embraced by morning sunshine…
A firmament we’ll lionize in peace.
I will glorify the music
By writing it for you.
It will please the ears of many.
Neither one of us will ask the reason why.
We will taste the sweetest nectar
Of our own satisfaction,
And the feeling will be priceless.
You will be my prima donna.
So I’ll light the scented candles
For our enhanced eyes to see by,
And we’ll write the gentle music.
Neither one of us will ask the reason why.
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