Rihanna Dismisses Lady Gaga, Katy Perry as ‘Generic Pop’
After being dismissed as a lightweight by Taylor Momsen, Rihanna apparently feels that it’s time to talk some smack herself.
The “Rude Boy” singer got a little rude herself during an interview with BBC’s Radio 1, dismissing the work of Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Ke$ha as nondescript fluff. Discussing her upcoming album Loud (out on November 12), Ri-Ri opined,
“[Loud is] just the perfect Rihanna album. Every song is tailored to me. I wanted songs on there that were all Rihanna songs, that nobody else could do. I didn’t want the generic pop record that Ke$ha or Lady Gaga or Katy Perry could do.”
Something tells us that a few people might have a thing or two to say about that.
Listen to Rihanna’s statement below. Do you think she has a point, or was she out of line? Let us know in the comments section.



























I think she meant it in a sense of orginality, I don’t think she meant to diss anyone. But RIHANNA IS NOT ORIGINAL AT ALL!!! At least Katy, GaGa and Kesha write their own song, Rihanna has never been a song writer! And she has used beats form SoftCell and MIcheal Jackson and “take a bow”. was Madonna’s songs that she switched up a bit. Her record label took advatage of her fan bases lack of “old music” knowledge At the end of the day, her music is still generic pop, because all modern day pop has no substance. If you sing about partying, or being “the badest bitch in town” (which she does)it’s generic. And there’s nothing wrong with singing generic pop, just don’t kid yourself into thinking you have amazing, inspiring music. Her whole career is based off image and her “evolution” her last record do do as well as the others, so she should judt shut her trap.
sorry * didn’t do as well and *just not judt
She was simply saying that she wanted a unique Caribbean sound where her fellow artist, who are not Caribbean could not do. She was not calling them generic by any means. She was hoping that she would not be misconstrued, you could hear the hesitation in her voice after answering the question.
Rihanna it’s just idiotr or what
Hahahahhaha she is sooooo selfish
Obiously you can’t do a cd like the lady gaga or kesha or katty perry cd because thouse cd’s are BETTER than the rihannas cds hahahhahahahha so idiot she think that she can compare with an artist better than she like lady gaga !! and kesha that are newest than she and have sooooooooooooo much money than she !!
Beleve me rihanna !! you ARE A GENERIC POP! PLEASE DON’T SONFUSE YOURSELF!
[quote=Kristen stwart]Rihanna it’s just idiotr or what
Hahahahhaha she is sooooo selfish
Obiously you can’t do a cd like the lady gaga or kesha or katty perry cd because thouse cd’s are BETTER than the rihannas cds hahahhahahahha so idiot she think that she can compare with an artist better than she like lady gaga !! and kesha that are newest than she and have sooooooooooooo much money than she !!
Beleve me rihanna !! you ARE A GENERIC POP ARTIST! PLEASE DON’T CONFUSE YOURSELF![/quote]
[quote=Kristen stwart]Rihanna it’s just idiotr or what Hahahahhaha she is sooooo selfish Obiously you can’t do a cd like the lady gaga or kesha or katty perry cd because thouse cd’s are BETTER than the rihannas cds hahahhahahahha so idiot she think that she can compare with an artist better than she like lady gaga !! and kesha that are newest than she and have sooooooooooooo much money than she !!Beleve me rihanna !! you ARE A GENERIC POP! PLEASE DON’T SONFUSE YOURSELF![/quote]
Please. Rihanna has a unique sound to her and image. Papa GaGa is a copy and paste of Britney Spears! Kesha has a failed second and third single unlike Rihanna whom has had more than 7 number 1 singles. Katty Perry is on the verge of flopping too. This will be Rihannas 5th album. Lets see if the others stick around to say the same. The world knows this.
You need to get off the computer and go back to school. My 3yr old can write better than that. You are an illiterate moron!!
Trench 1 hr ago
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Kristen stwart said:
Rihanna it’s just idiotr or what Hahahahhaha she is sooooo selfish Obiously you can’t do a cd like the lady gaga or kesha or katty perry cd because thouse cd’s are BETTER than the rihannas cds hahahhahahahha so idiot she think that she can compare with an artist better than she like lady gaga !! and kesha that are newest than she and have sooooooooooooo much money than she !!Beleve me rihanna !! you ARE A GENERIC POP! PLEASE DON’T SONFUSE YOURSELF!
Please. Rihanna has a unique sound to her and image. Papa GaGa is a copy and paste of Britney Spears! Kesha has a failed second and third single unlike Rihanna whom has had more than 7 number 1 singles. Katty Perry is on the verge of flopping too. This will be Rihannas 5th album. Lets see if the others stick around to say the same. The world knows this.
PLEASE!!!!!! Rihanna is as untalented as they come. Have you heard her sing live? She’s HORRIBLE!!! Along with Katy and Kesha, they are some of the most untalented singers of our time. GaGa, as weird and bizarre as she is, can at least sing IN TUNE!!!
[quote=hearts]I think she meant it in a sense of orginality, I don’t think she meant to diss anyone. But RIHANNA IS NOT ORIGINAL AT ALL!!! At least Katy, GaGa and Kesha write their own song, Rihanna has never been a song writer! And she has used beats form SoftCell and MIcheal Jackson and “take a bow”. was Madonna’s songs that she switched up a bit. Her record label took advatage of her fan bases lack of “old music” knowledge At the end of the day, her music is still generic pop, because all modern day pop has no substance. If you sing about partying, or being “the badest bitch in town” (which she does)it’s generic. And there’s nothing wrong with singing generic pop, just don’t kid yourself into thinking you have amazing, inspiring music. Her whole career is based off image and her “evolution” her last record do do as well as the others, so she should judt shut her trap.[/quote]
At least Katy Perry would have the self-respect to leave Russell Brand if he ever beat her the way Chris Brown beat Rihanna.
[quote=A Thought]
PLEASE!!!!!! Rihanna is as untalented as they come. Have you heard her sing live? She’s HORRIBLE!!! Along with Katy and Kesha, they are some of the most untalented singers of our time. GaGa, as weird and bizarre as she is, can at least sing IN TUNE!!![/quote]
i agree completely. rhianna singnign is like like a cat screaming in heat
[quote=Trench]
Please. Rihanna has a unique sound to her and image. Papa GaGa is a copy and paste of Britney Spears! Kesha has a failed second and third single unlike Rihanna whom has had more than 7 number 1 singles. Katty Perry is on the verge of flopping too. This will be Rihannas 5th album. Lets see if the others stick around to say the same. The world knows this.[/quote]
PLEASE!!!!!! Rihanna is as untalented as they come. Have you heard her sing live? She’s HORRIBLE!!! Along with Katy and Kesha, they are some of the most untalented singers of our time. GaGa, as weird and bizarre as she is, can at least sing IN TUNE!!!
LMFAO. Is this idiot serious? She doesn’t even write her own damn songs. I hate Ke$sha and I, at best, tolerate Lady Gaga, but even I can’t deny that they’ve both brought unique, original spins into the genre that is pop.
Rihanna is clearly delusional if she thinks she has an ounce of originality in her monotone, limited range.
[quote=Trench]Please. Rihanna has a unique sound to her and image. Papa GaGa is a copy and paste of Britney Spears! Kesha has a failed second and third single unlike Rihanna whom has had more than 7 number 1 singles. Katty Perry is on the verge of flopping too. This will be Rihannas 5th album. Lets see if the others stick around to say the same. The world knows this.[/quote]
YOU ARE AN IDIOT!!! If you think Rihanna is a good singer, then fine. But she is NOT unqiue! She is A PAWN FOR HER RECORD LABEL!!! SHE DOESN’T EVEN WRITE HER OWN SONGS! But Katy, Kesha and GaGa do. Her image is just her dying her hair every new CD. Her marketing is towrds her “evolution” and her fan base falls for it. She hardly wears any clothes on stage and just thrust around on stage singing about sex…sounds like everyother pop star to me. The first half of Lady GaGa’s European tour made about 200 million dollars, and Rihanna’s tour flopped(i’m not just saying this, you can look it up)! Radio stations were giving out 10 tickets at a time! And Rihanna’s actual album did much worse that Katy’s, Gaga’s and Kesha’s(all three of their albums went to #1, unlike Rihanna’s) So actually think before you (and Rihanna) try to call her unique, because she is far from it.
[quote=ajax360]She was simply saying that she wanted a unique Caribbean sound where her fellow artist, who are not Caribbean could not do. She was not calling them generic by any means. She was hoping that she would not be misconstrued, you could hear the hesitation in her voice after answering the question.[/quote]
she specifically said “I didn’t want the generic pop record that Ke$ha or Lady Gaga or Katy Perry could do.”
[quote=Trench]Please. Rihanna has a unique sound to her and image. Papa GaGa is a copy and paste of Britney Spears! Kesha has a failed second and third single unlike Rihanna whom has had more than 7 number 1 singles. Katty Perry is on the verge of flopping too. This will be Rihannas 5th album. Lets see if the others stick around to say the same. The world knows this.[/quote]
Yes but i used to think Rihanna was a classy women and you do not say things like that when you are a classy women…I also disagree with everything she sai >.
Katy Perry is her friend, yet she says that..;/
Guess that’s the end of the friendship.
They all suck.
Pop sucks.
So,who gives a sh*t what does talentless bitch with red hair says?
arrogant no talent pop star never wrote a song in her life. So she “hires” people to do it for her. Jay Z should have left this no talent little girl where he found her. Most undeserving music artist out there. He attitude makes her ugly. Hopefully she will grow up and realize she her whole career is luck, not talent.
lol that is really funny cuz she is the next one that comes with the same electro sh*t, that gaga does billion times better. she thinks shes cool, she failed so hard on this statement and lost my little respect i had for her after ‘rated r’. WHY THE f*ck DOES HER NEW SINGLE SOUNDS LIKE KESHA & KATY?!! and ye shes right.. she can’t do it like gaga does cuz shes JUST the same arrogant childish bitch she was since the beggining. ALL OF HER HER NUMBER ONES WERENT EVEN WROTE BY HER!! she’s just a singer, she would be nothing without ne-yo or the-dream. yes i’m takin it that far as she did.
…I thought she was best friends with Katy?
Wow. Whether or not it was intentional or accidental, Rihanna really sounds like an awful bitch on this one. I personally do not like Ke$ha or Katy Perry, but I do think Lady GaGa possesses talent. She writes all of her own music, and if you take away the poppy beats, on more than one occasion her lyrics are very dark.
Rihanna butchers her music live. So, I don’t want to hear her act like she’s so above & beyond everyone else in terms of accomplishments. It is one thing to sing in a studio with tons of technological help, but to sing on stage, without that backup? That’s another thing completely.
But really, who honestly gives a sh*t? I almost feel stupid for even posting anything at all, considering there are way more important issues in the world today than Rihanna acting like a spoiled brat. But eh, I have some time to kill.
She’s a 2-faced, conceited person. Especially when she threw Katy Perry’s bachelorette party. She needs to get off her high horse. I don’t like her anymore.
[quote=ajax360]She was simply saying that she wanted a unique Caribbean sound where her fellow artist, who are not Caribbean could not do. She was not calling them generic by any means. She was hoping that she would not be misconstrued, you could hear the hesitation in her voice after answering the question.[/quote]
What Carribbean flavor? She got rid of that on her album Rated R. The only song with Carribean flavor was “Te Amo”, the rest was like EVERY OTHER SONG OUT THERE. The only unique thing about her songs is her obvious accent in them. Otherwise, she’d just blend in with the crowd. And her new single is absolute crap. She considered the generic pop lab with Rated R, and now she’s a full flege member. At least Lady Gaga and Katy Perry write songs. Rihanna has not except a couple. And they were crap. I’m not hatin’, but before she should go dissin’ some artist as “generic pop” she better check herself.
i think maybe chris brown hit her head too many times.
just sayin’
OH YEAH!!! Rihanna…isn’t generic fluff… i understand… you were in an abusive relationship and NOW you can write songs about it…. before it was about UMBRELLAS hunnn… and chris brown wrote disturbia no?… soooo being a emo-esk version of an r&b “singer” IS… – CoMMERciAL FLUFF hunni…. that’d be youuuu… thats YOUR category… maybe you made it possible for them to follow in your footsteps…
Cassie shaved her head, you dyed your hair red…. that doesn’t make YOU “HARD” or outside the FLUFF
write a song about how you cant sing
I recommend you review your attempt at singing HERO (Mariah)… you can’t SING… so of course.. evvverything you DO… is fluff.. lets not play GAMES
lets be REAL
I dont believe this, first of all, rihanna, katy perry and kesha are very good friends, kesha was touring with rihanna, so i dont thin rihanna said that in that way, rihanna was saying that she felt so much admiration lady gaga for been a very creative person and very original, so I dont believe that, and one more thing Rihanna is A SONGWRITER and very good one, she makes hits, so she has done so much things in a very sasha short space of time, that others artist toke so many years to have so, Rihanna is one of a kind!
I dont believe this, first of all, rihanna, katy perry and kesha are very good friends, kesha was touring with rihanna, so i dont thin rihanna said that in that way, rihanna was saying that she felt so much admiration lady gaga for been a very creative person and very original, so I dont believe that, and one more thing Rihanna is A SONGWRITER and very good one, she makes hits, so she has done so much things in a very sasha short space of time, that others artist take so many years to have so, Rihanna is one of a kind!
So I think that all those very talented womens can be in the same place without be against each others, so I love Lady gaga, Rihanna, katy perry, kesha, p!nk, Beyonce, because they are very unique womens, and very talented! so maybe we would be happy to have a such of variety in the world of music actually!
She’s getting old for the pop-industry (what’s it been, 5 years for her?), and she’s threatened by someone who’s more exciting than her, so she retaliates by colouring her hair the colour of a stop sign. GOOD JOB.
If Rihanna is all that than she wouldn’t be putting other artist down to make herself look good… What a hatter
How could Ri-tard ever say that about Katy Perry..she just had Katy’s Bachelorette party. What a back stabbing b*@ch! Ri-tard has the originality of Milli Vanilli…she uses everyone else’s music and then dies her hair outlandish colors or wears messed up outfits to try and fit in and hope that no one will notice. GET A CLUE RI-RI
um that must be a joke because she is really good friends with katy perry and she is currently touring with Ke$ha!!!
plus she is no better…i love gaga, katy and ke$ha and she is probably the least of my favorites out of the whole group..again i think this is totally a joke
She does not write her music or her lyrics and her voice is average. People should pay little attention to her opinion. Just get on the stage in a sexy outfit, shake your ass to club beats, and collect your check….that’s all you signed up for. All the credit and judgment should go to those behind her.
I liked Rihanna better when she wasn’t so rough and tough looking. Now she just seems like a stuck up B****. Her voice is annoying. Onto the next real star please.
I agree with Rihanna…except for the part where she thought of herself as more than generic pop. All four of them are producing fast, easy music that sells but does little after that.
you should all listen to yourselves. defending mindless garbage like lady kaka and katy and kesha9someone who puts a dollar sign in their name) none of it is origional its all crap packaged for the masses to buy, none of it means anything. lady gaga can wear all the stupid outfits she wants and hang out with a train wreck like perez because its “artistic” if she wants but its still horrible music. listening to katy perry is like watching a commercial for nick hr, with worse music and kesha just fails when she tries to be shocking and edgy. these idiots dont even know what real is. neither do their fans. youre all hopeless and dont even know it. thats the real joke.
Sounds like someone should punch this dumb tw*t in the mouth.
Hmm, wait a second..
let’s see you take on Bad Romance or Speechless. yeah, didn’t think so.
[quote=Rebecca]At least Katy Perry would have the self-respect to leave Russell Brand if he ever beat her the way Chris Brown beat Rihanna.[/quote]
That was uncalled for
[quote=hearts]I think she meant it in a sense of orginality, I don’t think she meant to diss anyone. [b]But RIHANNA IS NOT ORIGINAL AT ALL!!! At least Katy, GaGa and Kesha write their own song, Rihanna has never been a song writer! And she has used beats form SoftCell and MIcheal Jackson and “take a bow”. was Madonna’s songs that she switched up a bit. Her record label took advatage of her fan bases lack of “old music” knowledge At the end of the day, her music is still generic pop, [/b]because all modern day pop has no substance. If you sing about partying, or being “the badest bitch in town” (which she does)it’s generic. And there’s nothing wrong with singing generic pop, just don’t kid yourself into thinking you have amazing, inspiring music. Her whole career is based off image and her “evolution” her last record do do as well as the others, so she should judt shut her trap.[/quote]
i’m glad there are people that understand (like you hearts)
bravo!
i thought rihanna and katy perry were like best friends?
Like she has any room to talk! Nearly all of today’s pop “music” is total sh*t, thrown together and hyped so that the teeny-boppers will spend Daddy’s money on it. Long live real music by real artists!
WOW. that’s not even cool for her to say that about Katy.
The two are best friends and she hosted her damn bachelorette party for god’s sake!
They’re all generic garbage. And you’re all garbage for trying to differentiate them.
Yeah, this doesn’t sound like a dis at all. If anything it sounds like she’s trying to say that her new album isn’t going to try to adhere to current music trends (like her last album did) so much as really express who she is as an artist.
last time i checked, aren’t rihanna and katy perry best friends? i dont know about anyone else, but id be pissed if my ‘best’ friend went around talking badly about my music. not to mention, who are you rihanna? gaga has 3 grammys from her own music. you have what? none, other then those 2 from COLLABORATIONS on other people’s songs. yeah, you need to sit down with all that. katy perry’s music is the definition of summer 2010. as i recall, you’ve done nothing lately but dye your hair and get tatted up. next youll be sleeping with jesse james, so shut up and just watch your career burn.
[quote=Rebecca]At least Katy Perry would have the self-respect to leave Russell Brand if he ever beat her the way Chris Brown beat Rihanna.[/quote]
how on earth do you know that!! bitch please it’s not like you know the celebrity!! it just gets on my nerves when people talk about stars like there their friends og something
[quote=Trench]
Please. Rihanna has a unique sound to her and image. Papa GaGa is a copy and paste of Britney Spears! Kesha has a failed second and third single unlike Rihanna whom has had more than 7 number 1 singles. Katty Perry is on the verge of flopping too. This will be Rihannas 5th album. Lets see if the others stick around to say the same. The world knows this.[/quote]
ok you dont have to like lady gaga but come on you cant say that she a copy of BRITNEY!! thats just plane bullsh*t! lady gaga is at least unique and original britney isnt and has never been!!