Talk:Diva

message: 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. small>—Preceding unsigned comment added by Politi (talk • contribs) 19:32, 11 June 2006</small>
You're an idiot if you think the word was made just for Maria Callas.
He didn't say it was 'made' for Callas. You can't read, and that makes YOU the idiot.
It was first use for Maria Callas, that is quite correct.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.101.17.12 (talk) 17:07, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: First usage

message: Shouldn't it be Dame Joan Sutherland to match the other Dames in the list??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.187.67.114 (talk • contribs) 15:43, 9 January 2007
: You bet my friend! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.216.210.200 (talk • contribs) 19:19, 4 May 2007
No it's a musical term. Let's keep it as that!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.67.29.250 (talk) 17:33, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dames 

message: Should this article belong to the "Divas" category? --Jerome Potts 09:03, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories 

message: 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 mother and her sisters on "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" called each other Divas, but 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 (  ) 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)
thread_title:  Modern versus traditional context? 

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