Music Friday: Marina and the Diamonds Performs Her 2012 International Hit, ‘Primadonna’

Welcome to Music Friday when we bring you exciting songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the lyrics or title. Today, we have Marina Lambrini Diamandis, better known by her stage name Marina and the Diamonds, performing her 2012 international hit, “Primadonna.”

In this song about an ego-driven girl who “wants the world,” the sassy 27-year-old Welsh recording artist tries to coax an engagement proposal from her suitor: “Would you do anything for me? Buy a big diamond ring for me? Would you get down on your knees for me? Pop the pretty question right now baby.”

Diamandis created her stage name by incorporating her first name with the translation of her surname, which means “diamonds” in Greek. She explained that “The Diamonds” part of "Marina and the Diamonds" does not refer to her backing band, but to her fans.

“Primadonna,” which was described as “a monster song” by MTV Buzzworthy critic Sam Lansky, was an international sensation, reaching the top five in three countries and charting in 13. Within the first few hours of its release in March of 2012, the song became a worldwide trending topic on Twitter.

We hope you enjoy the video at the end of this post. It shows Marina performing live on the UK’s popular “Graham Norton Show.” The lyrics are below if you’d like to sing along.

“Primadonna”
Written by Julie Frost, Lukasz Gottwald, Henry Walter and Marina Diamandis. Performed by Marina and the Diamonds.

Primadonna girl, yeah
All I ever wanted was the world
I can't help that I need it all
The primadonna life, the rise and fall
You say that I'm kinda difficult
But it's always someone else's fault
Got you wrapped around my finger, babe
You can count on me to misbehave

Primadonna girl,
Would you do anything for me?
Buy a big diamond ring for me?
Would you get down on your knees for me?
Pop the pretty question right now baby
Beauty queen of the silver screen
Living life like I'm in a dream
I know I've got a big ego
I really don't know why it's such a big deal, though
I'm sad to the core, core, core
Everything is a chore, chore, chore
When you give I want more, more, more
I wanna be adored

(Chorus)
Cause I'm a primadonna girl, yeah
All I ever wanted was the world
I can't help that I need it all
The primadonna life, the rise and fall
You say that I'm kinda difficult
But it's always someone else's fault
Got you wrapped around my finger, babe
You can count on me to misbehave

Primadonna girl
Fill the void up with Celluloid
Take a picture, I'm with the boys
Get what I want cause I asked for it
Not because I'm really that deserving of it
I'm living life like I'm in a play
In the limelight I want to stay
I know I've got a big ego
I really don't know why it's such a big deal, though
Going up, going down, down, down
Anything for the crown, crown, crown
With the lights dimming down, down, down
I spin around

(Chorus x 2)
Cause I'm a primadonna girl, yeah
All I ever wanted was the world
I can't help that I need it all
The primadonna life, the rise and fall
You say that I'm kinda difficult
But it's always someone else's fault
Got you wrapped around my finger, babe
You can count on me to misbehave

Cause I'm a primadonna girl, yeah
All I ever wanted was the world
I can't help that I need it all
The primadonna life, the rise and fall
You say that I'm kinda difficult
But it's always someone else's fault
Got you wrapped around my finger, babe
You can count on me to misbehave
Primadonna girl

McDonald’s Japan Introduces Jewelry-Themed Premium Burgers With Names Such as 'Gold Ring' and 'Ruby Spark'

On three consecutive Saturdays in July, McDonald’s Japan introduced “Gold Ring,” “Black Diamond” and “Ruby Spark” — the much ballyhooed, limited-edition “Quarter Pounder Jewelry” triumvirate of luxury burgers.

Featuring ingredients such as truffle sauce, pineapple and chorizo, the special Quarter Pounders were each available for one day only and quantities were capped at 300,000. The premium burgers carried a premium price of ¥1,000 (nearly $10) and “jewelry sets,” which included a drink and fries, cost an additional $2.

The Quarter Pounder Jewelry products were impressively packaged in boutique-quality boxes and bags, including a decorative ribbon and a slick fact sheet. Some restaurants even provided VIP seating for those who purchased a jewelry-themed burger.

On July 6, Japanese customers got their first look at the Gold Ring Quarter Pounder, which was dressed with a thick golden ring of grilled pineapple, two hearty slabs of bacon, 10-spice barbecue sauce and Monterey Jack cheese on a Kaiser roll.

One week later, the Black Diamond took center stage. This quarter-pound burger featured truffle sauce, grilled mushrooms, grilled onions and Emmental cheese on a brioche bun.

This past Saturday, Ruby Spark made its fast-food debut. Providing the ruby color were five slices of chorizo sausage. The burger was smothered with grilled onions, guacamole, garlic puree, and pepper jack cheese on a floured French roll.

The limited-time “Quarter Pounder Jewelry” promotion ran exclusively in Japan, and McDonald’s did not indicate if it would be coming to the U.S. in the near future.

Kelly Osbourne Designs Her Bezel-Set Diamond Engagement Ring to Remind Her of Rocker Dad’s Ear Bling

With a nod to her rocker dad, Ozzy, E! "Fashion Police" commentator Kelly Osbourne designed her new engagement ring to remind her of the earring the Black Sabbath frontman wore when she was a tyke.

Osbourne told Us Weekly, "I used to hold my finger up to his ear when I was little and say, 'I want a ring like that.' Now I have one!"

The 28-year-old fashionista had kept the news of her engagement to 29-year-old vegan chef Matthew Mosshart a secret for more than six months because their custom-made ring had not been completed.

Last week, the couple finally confirmed that Mosshart had popped the question New Year’s Day during a vacation on the Caribbean island of Anguilla.

"We were on a balcony that overlooks the ocean," Mosshart told Hello! magazine. "It was just beautiful. She said, ‘Yes,’ and then she smiled for the rest of the night!"

"I've never felt this close to another human being, ever," Osbourne added in the interview.

On Saturday, Osbourne and her dad went out to get manicures together. When they were done, Osbourne shared a pair of Instagram pictures that showed off their manicures, and also gave her fans their first clear look at her new engagement bling.

The clean, modern design draws the eye to a large flawless round diamond, which is bezel set in white precious metal (we're guessing it's platinum). A bezel setting uses no prongs, just a lip of precious metal that secures the diamond in place.

One of the photos sweetly shows Osbourne's hands intertwined with her father's. Her engagement ring sits in the center of the frame that also reveals Ozzy's affection for fine jewelry. He's wearing a gold-and-diamond skull ring on his right hand and an engraved gold thumb ring on his left.

Scientists Believe Gold and Platinum Are Forged in the Explosive Aftermath of Neutron Star Collisions

Harvard scientists believe that all the Earth’s gold and platinum can be traced to one of the most violent explosions in the universe — a gamma-ray burst produced in the collision of two neutron stars.

Their findings finally unravel a long-standing mystery of how rare precious metals and other “heavy” elements found their way to our planet.

The late astronomer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sagan famously said that we are all made of “starstuff,” meaning that dying stars billions of years ago cooked up the lighter, basic elements on the planet.

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff,” Sagan wrote in Cosmos.

But scientists had remained baffled about the origins of the heaviest elements, including gold and platinum (79 and 78, respectively, on the Periodic Table).

Then the answer emerged last month...

On June 3, NASA’s Swift satellite observed a gamma-ray burst 3.9 billion light-years away that astrophysicists believe was the result of a clash of neutron stars.

Images of the burst captured by the Hubble Telescope nine days later showed evidence that the collision generated a bevy of heavy elements, including the equivalent of several moon masses of gold, according to Edo Berger of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass.

"Call it the golden glow," Berger told USA Today. "In this case, we were able to observe it for the first time and see how the merger seems to be producing the heavy elements."

While common stars collide in our galaxy about once every century, explosive collisions of neutron stars occur once in 10,000 years.

Neutron stars weigh more than our sun, but are barely the size of Manhattan. When these already-dense masses collide, they have the ability to generate gold and other heavy elements.

So, if these neutron star collisions produced several moon masses of gold, how much would that be worth?

"At today's prices, that amount of gold would be worth 10 octillion dollars," Berger told USA Today.

Star illustrations: NASA

Maroon 5 Frontman Adam Levine Delivers ‘Old School’ Proposal to Victoria Secret Model Behati Prinsloo With Vintage Diamond Solitaire

Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine got down on bended knee and gallantly asked for the hand of Victoria Secret model Behati Prinsloo last weekend. The vintage engagement ring, which was designed in the 1930s and reportedly reflects the model’s eclectic personal style, features an oval diamond solitaire in a delicately embellished platinum setting.

According to the 24-year-old Namibian-born beauty, Levine picked out the ring himself and formally called her dad for his blessing before surprising Prinsloo with the proposal. "It was serious, it was very old school," Prinsloo told ET Canada.

When the paparazzi spied her at a cafe on Wednesday, the resulting photos told a story of a young woman who was mesmerized by her new engagement ring. Picture after picture showed her staring at the ring.

Later, she told reporters that she loved the ring but hadn’t gotten used to the sparkling new addition to her left hand. “I forgot I slept with [the ring] on last night, and I woke up and went, "Oh, hello!"' she told Us Weekly.

The model revealed that the ring size was a bit large, so she was temporarily wearing a proper-fitting simple gold band next to the engagement ring to protect the larger ring from sliding off her finger.

She also confessed that she still tears up every time she thinks of the proposal.

Prinsloo and Levine began dating about a year ago. The couple had broken up several months ago before recently deciding to reconcile. Besides his work with Maroon 5, Levine is a judge on NBC’s hit TV show, The Voice. In addition to being a fashion model, Prinsloo is now the high-profile face of Victoria Secret’s new fragrance, “Victoria.”