Music Friday: Thai Star Ploychompoo Sings, 'You've Got Me Cut Like a Diamond'

Welcome to Music Friday when we bring you fun songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Today, the Thai-German pop star known as Ploychompoo performs “Diamonds,” a 2017 tune about a boyfriend who brings out the best in her and gives her the confidence to shine like a precious stone.

In the song, the multi-talented 24-year-old, whose birth name is Jannine Weigel, uses diamond terminology to tell her love story. She admits that she doesn’t always “wake up feeling flawless,” but her boyfriend recognizes that beauty is only skin deep.

He’s the only one who’s been able to discover her true essence, and his love has transformed her. She describes her new self as a finely faceted gem. (Ironically, the singer's stage name has gemstone ties. "Ploychompoo" means “pink sapphire" in Thai.)

She sings, “All of the stars are aligning / My heart, it beats like a lion / ‘Cause every time you hold me / And tell me that you love me / You got me cut like a diamond.”

In his interpretation of the song, co-writer and producer Gabriel Alberto Azucena, also known as Gawvi, references the immense pressure that is needed for a beautiful diamond to form.

“The song is simply about understanding that we all at some point have struggled with doubts,” he said. “Sometimes we can find ourselves questioning our identities and purpose, but we have to remember that the pressure and tough times we experience are simply ingredients to allow for our inner true beauty to shine.”

Weigel was born in Steinfurt, Germany, in 2000, to a German father and a Thai mother. She and her family moved to Thailand in 2010, where the youngster started working as a model. After just three months of training, at the age of 11, she earned third place in a national singing contest for children. In 2013, she started her own YouTube channel which now has 4 million subscribers. By 2015, she had released her first single and shortly thereafter earned movie and television roles.

Please check out the lyric video of Weigel performing “Diamonds.” The lyrics are below if you’d like to sing along…

“Diamonds”
Written by Gabriel Alberto Azucena, Jannine Weigel and Jordan Adelberger. Performed by Jannine Weigel.

I may not wake up feeling flawless
And my emotions can be reckless, yeah
And I know, yeah I know, yeah I know
Yeah I know I ain’t perfect
But I glow, yeah I glow, yeah I glow
You say that I’m worth it

You’re the only one who saw beyond my skin deep
And into my heart completely
You got me cut like a diamond

Oooh, oooh, all of the stars are aligning
Oooh, oooh, my heart, it beats like a lion
‘Cause every time you hold me
And tell me that you love me
Oooh, oooh, you got me cut like a diamond

The difference in me is so drastic
From day to night it’s automatic
I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know
Who’d I be without ya
But I glow, yeah I glow, yeah I glow
It’s not a question

You’re the only one who saw beyond my skin deep
And into my heart completely
You got me cut like a diamond

Oooh, oooh, all of the stars are aligning
Oooh, oooh, my heart, it beats like a lion
‘Cause every time you hold me
And tell me that you love me

Oooh, oooh, you got me cut like a diamond
You got me cut like a diamond
You got me cut like a diamond
‘Cause every time you hold me
And tell me that you love me
Oooh, oooh, you got me cut like a diamond

You’re the only one who saw beyond my skin deep
And into my heart completely

You’re the only one who saw beyond my skin deep
And into my heart completely
You got me cut like a diamond

Oooh, oooh, all of the stars are aligning
Oooh, oooh, my heart, it beats like a lion
‘Cause every time you hold me
And tell me that you love me
Oooh, oooh, you got me cut like a diamond
You got me cut like a diamond
You got me cut like a diamond

‘Cause every time you hold me
And tell me that you love me
Oooh, oooh, you got me cut like a diamond

Credit: Photo by Sry85, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped).