Jamaican singer/ songwriter Grace Jones slammed music artists, including Beyoncé and Nicki Minaj, asserting that numerous musicians nowadays are just copying her style.
In her autobiography 'I'll Never Write my Memoirs,' which was published by Time Out, the inimitable, legendary musician claimed that famous artists nowadays are only copying her style.
"Trends come along and people say, 'Follow that trend,'" she wrote. "There's a lot of that around at the moment: 'Be like Sasha Fierce. Be like Miley Cyrus. Be like Rihanna. Be like Lady Gaga. Be like Rita Ora and Sia. Be like Madonna.' I cannot be like them-except to the extent that they are already being like me."
Jones also said that many singers gained fortune from imitating her style, but she on the other isn't doing it for the money, but instead for excitement.
"I have been so copied by those people who have made fortunes that people assume I am that rich," she wrote. "But I did things for the excitement, the dare, the fact that it was new, not for the money and too many times I was the first, not the beneficiary."
Jones, who covered her whole body with tribal paint at the Parklife Festival, claimed that Rihanna stole her style.
She wrote, "Rihanna, she does the body-painting thing I did with Keith Haring but where he painted directly on my body, she wears a painted bodysuit. That's the difference. Mine is on skin [and] she puts a barrier between the paint and her skin."
She's also fighting against the trending word "diva."
"The word is usually used to describe an apparently erratic female whose temperamental qualities, survival instincts, and dedication to perfection are seen as weaknesses, as self-indulgent, not a strength," she wrote. "... I am not a diva. I am a Jones!"
