Watch the new Diamond Rings video, “It’s Not My Party”
Watch the new Diamond Rings video, “It’s Not My Party”
John O’Regan—Toronto’s towering, eye-shadowed pop music sensation better known as Diamond Rings—has a new video uploaded to YouTube this week. Taking a more dire tone than previous bright and shiny numbers like “Wait and See” and “Show Me Your Stuff,” “It’s Not My Party” features a bellowing version of his voice (think Springsteen meets Ian McCulloch) singing over images of O’Regan as he makes his way around Dundas West and Queen West drinking, dancing and doing drugs. Diamond Rings’s turn toward the darkness here is well timed, like the perfect placement of a ballad on a pop album, and we love it.
One time I left my winter coat on the bus in Guelph so I went to get a new one at Value Village, because I was very poor at the time and it was the only store I could afford.
In the men’s section I found this snazzy 80s ski jacket in multiple shades of fluorescent blue, which was only $25. I put it on and it was like destiny. I looked gorgeous.
John O’Regan was working at the checkout and he was like “Cool coat man, but I get my first pick of everything.” Approximately two years later someone pointed out that it was a woman’s coat, but I still wear it.
The end.