The impossible trainwreck that is Netflix's Diana: The Musical makes AmyTVGal ask more than ever 'Will we ever just leave Diana alone?'
We don’t learn anything new about Diana. Her life is reduced to one-dimensional musical headlines. We don’t get any big “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” number. The lyrics are laughably simplistic: “A fairy tale born in hell” and “I could use a prince to save me of my prince” aren’t exactly subtle. The dialogue is even more overt.
The second act, which finds Diana coming into her own, is worse. A song entitled “The Main Event,” which features Diana confronting Camilla actually, heaven help us, features the lyrics “thrilla in Manila with Diana and Camilla.” In “Here Comes James Hewitt,” the man who would become Diana’s lover sings “Ladies if your life has gone off course, you don’t need no messy divorce, all you need is a man on a horse.” I promise you I am not making these lyrics up.
Perhaps I feel a stronger sense of kinship with Diana than those younger than me. When she died on August 31, 1997, my roommate came home to find me glued to the television with tears in my eyes. She was shocked that I was so consumed by Diana’s sudden and tragic death. “I’ve never given much thought to the royals,” she confessed.
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