Claws out! Grace Jones, 67, claims Nicki Minaj, Miley Cyrus and Rihanna are 'not challenging status quo' by wearing sexy clothes as it's all been done before
Grace Jones was a trailblazer in the 1970s when she dressed up in leather and lingerie for an androgynous stage look to belt out the hits Pull Up To The Bumper and Love Is The Drug.
But now the 67-year-old says that the current crop of chart toppers have done not much new.
'They dress up as though they are challenging the status quo, but by now, wearing those clothes, pulling those faces, revealing those tattoos and breasts, singing to those fractured, spastic, melting beats – that is the status quo,' the Jamaican said.
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Grace now: Ms Jones, seen in April 2014, has slammed Nicki Minaj, Miley Cyrus and Rihanna in an excerpt from her book I'll Never Write My Memoirs, which was printed in The Telegraph on Thursday
Grace then: The now 67-year-old music maverick who created the hits Pull Up To The Bumper and Love Is The Drug gained fame from her outlandish appearance that included risque costumes
The comments were from an excerpt from her book I'll Never Write My Memoirs, which was printed in The Telegraph on Thursday.
The songstress, who is playing at Bestival on the Isle Of Wight this weekend, also said, 'You are not off the beaten track, pushing through the thorny undergrowth, finding treasure no one has come across before.
'You are in the middle of the road. You are really in Vegas wearing the sparkly full-length gown singing to people who are paying to see you but are not really paying attention. If that is what you want, fine, but it’s a road to nowhere.'
She thinks they are doing what is old: 'They dress up as though they are challenging the status quo, but by now, wearing those clothes, pulling those faces, revealing those tattoos and breasts...That is the status quo,' the Licence To Kill actress said of today's singers, including Rihanna (left) and Minaj (right)
She was a target too: Cyrus, seen here in August at the MTV Video Music Awards, was also on her hit list
She did it (better) back then: The New York club favorite in her lingerie in 1991
The Nightclubbing singer also said, 'I have been so copied by those people who have made fortunes, people assume I am that rich,' the icon said in the excerpt.
'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.'
The songbird went out of her way to say the new stars are not doing anything that has not been done before.
Not doing it: The I Am Not Perfect songstress said she has been told to be more like Madonna, seen here on Wednesday in Montreal, Canada, but she refuses to
'Trends come along and people say, "Follow that trend,"' she said.
'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,"' she added.
'I cannot be like them - except to the extent that they are already being like me.'
Jones I’ll Never Write My Memoirs from Simon And Schuster will be out on September 24.
There's only one Grace Jones: The Jamaican songbird - seen here in the Seventies - went out of her way to say the new stars are not doing anything that has not been done before. 'Trends come along and people say, "Follow that trend,"' she said
A different type of lady: In a scene still for her 1984 film A View To A Kill where she played a baddie
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