We did a post recently asking a group of folks if Rihanna’s Beyonce’s inevitable successor. Beyonce had a movement that was about autonomy, financial independence and that opened the door for Rihanna’s movement with sexual liberation. Do you think that will most likely happen?
I wouldn’t say there’s a successor or not. To me they’re very different artists. Yes they both do pop music and both are Black women, but we can just like both of them. So many people are like ‘I’m on team this, I’m on team that.’ It’s like why can’t I just like music and like what these two women represent in different ways? Yes they’re both talented, but they’re different kinds of artists. Like Beyonce, well I wouldn’t go into everything that they do, but you know what Beyonce has to offer and I think Rihanna offers a bit something different. And yes they’re definitely some overlap in that they do some similar stuff, but they are totally different. At least for me they satisfy different parts of me creatively and I think that that’s what it is. Each of them has their own lane and that’s a lane they can fill if they want or leave vacant if they want, too.
- Vibe Magazine
Theyre both Queens!
