Actually Claudine, Gaga is the one who has OPENLY stated that Grace Jones was a style icon for her, she is the one that reached out to Grace Jones for a duet ( even though Grace denied her). The first time I heard Rihanna mention Grace was to say the others told her she reminded her of them, that's not really giving Grace credit for her style, that's saying someone else thought she shared some similarities.

Again Kelis has always gone against the grain of what was popular for most urban artists. Us in the states used to say she was so different because she spent a lot of tme in Europe ( we were just guessing). She was different when people weren't interested in being different- her pink hair when she first came out and since. Yes everyone does borrow from another but alot of the others seemed to have gotten a memo that "edgy is in...everyone must wear leotards...talk about how original and edgy you are". If you have to talk about it, then you obviously are not about it.!

Almost everyone in the music industry ( hollywood too) really are a bunch of followers that may not even realize they are followers ( Hello Autotune). There are those that set trends, those that borrow and bring trends to the fore front and then those that just jump on board because they see that it's done by all the artistic and "fabulous" people. Most of the people that set trends we NEVER hear about because they are truly underground, everybody else is just following.