"Diamond Smiles" was the second single from The Boomtown Rats' album The Fine Art of Surfacing. It was the follow-up to their successful single "I Don't Like Mondays" and also peaked at a respectable Number 13 in the UK Charts. The band has suggested that it might have fared better had it not been for a strike of lighting technicians on the powerful UK TV programme Top of The Pops at the time that the record was released and rising in the charts
Dealing with death, as had "I Don't Like Mondays", the song tells the story of a glamorous debutante ('Diamond') who commits suicide and is remembered only for her low-cut dress
The song also featured as one of four songs on an Australian EP called Surface Down Under that also featured past hits "Rat Trap", "Looking After No.1" and "Like Clockwork".
Well copied off Wikipedia Einstein. The song's about how superficial, vain and shit society is and the fact everyone puts on a socially acceptable act around each other. The fact that all that was remembered about her was her dress just shows how, because she was behaving in the same robotic socialite fashion of everyone else in the room, the only thing memorable about her was her appearance. And the fact she killed herself was probably a number of reasons, the most prominent vibe I got was the feeling of entrapment that she must have felt being unable to properly...
Well copied off Wikipedia Einstein. The song's about how superficial, vain and shit society is and the fact everyone puts on a socially acceptable act around each other. The fact that all that was remembered about her was her dress just shows how, because she was behaving in the same robotic socialite fashion of everyone else in the room, the only thing memorable about her was her appearance. And the fact she killed herself was probably a number of reasons, the most prominent vibe I got was the feeling of entrapment that she must have felt being unable to properly express herself and so she decided that was the only way out.
"Diamond Smiles" was the second single from The Boomtown Rats' album The Fine Art of Surfacing. It was the follow-up to their successful single "I Don't Like Mondays" and also peaked at a respectable Number 13 in the UK Charts. The band has suggested that it might have fared better had it not been for a strike of lighting technicians on the powerful UK TV programme Top of The Pops at the time that the record was released and rising in the charts
Dealing with death, as had "I Don't Like Mondays", the song tells the story of a glamorous debutante ('Diamond') who commits suicide and is remembered only for her low-cut dress
The song also featured as one of four songs on an Australian EP called Surface Down Under that also featured past hits "Rat Trap", "Looking After No.1" and "Like Clockwork".
Well copied off Wikipedia Einstein. The song's about how superficial, vain and shit society is and the fact everyone puts on a socially acceptable act around each other. The fact that all that was remembered about her was her dress just shows how, because she was behaving in the same robotic socialite fashion of everyone else in the room, the only thing memorable about her was her appearance. And the fact she killed herself was probably a number of reasons, the most prominent vibe I got was the feeling of entrapment that she must have felt being unable to properly...
Well copied off Wikipedia Einstein. The song's about how superficial, vain and shit society is and the fact everyone puts on a socially acceptable act around each other. The fact that all that was remembered about her was her dress just shows how, because she was behaving in the same robotic socialite fashion of everyone else in the room, the only thing memorable about her was her appearance. And the fact she killed herself was probably a number of reasons, the most prominent vibe I got was the feeling of entrapment that she must have felt being unable to properly express herself and so she decided that was the only way out.