-Interview Question is trying to inflate ego, and start beef so there will be something to write about

-Style is universal, while they are all so similar, there is NO ONE who plays a Kelis video and mistakes it for Rihanna or the Gaga.

-The majority of pop culture in this country revolves around the concepts of self-created ingenuity and respect for individuality---the American working heart.

-Although it is hard, let alone rude, to categorize all three of these in pop together, the fact that interviewers continually compare them is because the average person/fan/style-retard recognizes patterns in visual stimulation and categorizes it so that it can make sense.

-To say that they all copy one another is true, but discounts the fact that the incredible drive that each one of these women has exhibited to be heard.

-The lyrical content of lady gaga, as well as her valuable background in learning via imitating for most of her life, gives her the looks. What is different about her, edgy, artistic, deep, is her story. Latest album was called The Fame Monster for a reason. Though there are countless hidden meanings and blunt statements about this through out the songs on the album, the mere title says it all. The fame monster, as in a person who turns into a monster because of the need for fame, money, love, recognition ect ect

-No one told Gaga to go this route and with some of those outfits, a lot of people were ready to judge her, yet she remains. I honestly think if that girl wasn't famous, she'd still be stripping and lighting hairspray on fire just because, just to be different, just for fun. It is about celebrating the depravity, the human condition, which is horrible, scary, evil, and yet so beautiful, so precious, worth selling everything you have to see it realized.

-Gaga is edgy and about the hype, yet incredibly deep, open, and honest about it. Rihanna shares the same quality in that she is yet young still in the industry and has to have time to fully come into her own.

-The fact that Rihanna was discovered by Jay Z and B's people when she was so young raises the issue of whether Rih even has a story or something to say with her music or if she is a product, bought and sold to the public as a covert business move on B's side to ease out of the pop game without being thrown off her pedestal by a competitor. As in, we make you famous, you follow the ground rules we lay out as to when the right time to rise to full stardom happens.

-In the C. Brown event, all someone would have to do is watch her interviews after the fact to see the determination and substance behind her words. She's pissed. Though there are other interviews of her that happened early on where she exhibited the same "in your face" attitude, her birth into uniqueness really shines now that she has an understandable reason for the edge. The edge was there, it's just free now. And she just happens to look good to designers, and she just happens to make it work for herself.

-In the case of Kelis, her origins and her affiliations alone are enough to support her---but just in case we didn't believe in her---she gave us a pink and blonde affro in the "i hate you so much right now" video. During this time of her break out into r&b, each one of her videos were different, not always meant to shock or turn heads.

-This is the quality that the Europeans were talking about---the presentation of art, whimsically designed with different themes---seeming to be without pattern---and yet tied together by the word and the beat is something new in and of itself.

-Though it is sad to say, this was lost on the American people during the 90's. Kelis was loved and appreciated by other creative people who thought outside the box and therefore, through this kind of acceptance, she really and truly distinguished herself among her peers and the ones she imitated.

-All these chicks were born in the same decade, and it's silly for fans to # 1: even talk about age, #2: even compare a lion (Ririh) with a tiger(The gog) and a chimera (Kel-lisss)... & #3:

The icons we pile up on a pedestal fall just as fast or faster than what it took to build the pillar they stand on---based souly on their swagger---they could be dumb as a brick but they'd still dominate the charts bc they feed the culture what it wants---Swagger, individualized so much that the concept of recycling style as a sharing-interconnective bond that goes beyond personas---remains heavily unsaid.

SO, even though I was just listening to Kelis today and wanted to look up her origins again and happened on this site---and even though I usually never comment on any debates on forums regarding fashion/style/opinion---this particular thread reminds me a lot of what I hear people mentioning all the time in passing when discussing music---AND it angers me.

I wish that people understood symbolism, archetypes, story telling, personas, and just plane basic psychology better---And I wish that artists did a better job at opening the people's mind to this.... I think all three of these chicks do this in that they push the envelope. They want you to like their creations, they want you to come into their world and rejoice over their art with them---but they're not gonna cry about it if you can't. But uh, I will---they're all goddesses and deserve to be recognized for what they do.

Even if you don't agree or see it this way, I beg the question--if you were famous or given a chance to be---and you didn't have talent---given the chance----everyone would rock out with their cock out. Anyone would walk around like a redneck and sport a fedora like its okay. Everyone would walk around at the grammy's with a green cabbage on their head---everyone would shave half their head, sue they baby's daddy for 90 G's a month---the fact is everyone is a fan of the fame lifestyle and everyone's the mob---and angy blob fickle as a pickle---either souer or sweet----and we're all in it together---so why is this even on the richter!?

End rant.