What Happened To Our Divas? Beyonce Must Be Very Lonely At The Top

03/31/14 05:30 PM ET

Aretha. Celine. Whitney. Mariah. The ultimate divas.

Miley. Katy. RiRi. Gaga. The ... ummm?

We hardly blink an eye when Lady Gaga gets puked on, or when Madonna attempts to stay relevant by performing with Miley Cyrus. And how about Rihanna? She's too busy on Instagram to be belting out her beloved hits. Seriously, what happened to our divas?

"There are really four ingredients for a diva," guest Gerren Keith Gaynor of CentricTV.com explained. "You have to actually be dominating the charts, you have to actually be talented, you have to have longevity and you also have to carry a certain level of grace and a certain level of mystique about you."

But do the "pop stars" of today have those four ingredients? Not entirely.

Singers including Katy Perry and Miley Cyrus may be dominating the Billboard charts, but they don't seem to have the same effect Mariah Carey or Aretha Franklin had on their audiences. Lately, Queen Beyonce seems to be the only songstress keeping the diva torch alive.

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Honestly, Beyoncé really is the only one left.

spilling it

I honestly thought this in my head though I knew better

Rihanna still getting talked about in between album cycles. Icon.

Beyonce isn't that lonely.

Nnnnnn at their Madonna comment acting like she's competing with these new girls. She's already been at the top.

Lost all credibility.

This.

Rihanna is busy

My thoughts exactly

They're right though. Most of the girls today are just throwaway artists who are popular now but won't be appreciated much in the future.

And Adele's kinda already there but they're also right that she still has to work her way to that status a little more.

edit: I agree with you all about the J Lo thing though. I guess they mean since she's a great performer? But she's hardly keeping anything alive.