Living in the Sky with Diamonds

Album: Hot Mess (2009)
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Songfacts®:

  • This disco-influenced number about a high-living lady references Hall & Oates' "Maneater" in the lyrics "Oh, oh here she comes." The writers of that song get credits because of the interpolation.
  • The song title is a reference to the Beatles song, "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds."
  • "Living in the Sky with Diamonds" was co-written by Bruno Mars and released in 2009 a year before he launched his solo career. At the time, he was in a writing/production duo called The Smeezingtons with Phillip Lawrence, who is also a writer on this track.
  • The song is part of the third Cobra Starship album, Hot Mess. It was released as a single with a video directed by Lewis Cater, but it didn't chart. The big hit from the album was "Good Girls Go Bad," their collaboration with Leighton Meester.

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