Miss Chick Boom and True Blue made the best posts in here. Personally, Rihanna fans are going to defend their fave artist like Beyoncé fans are going to. But the thing is: Bey is a big time influence on Rihanna's career and music.

Bey is everything that Rihanna wants to be in her career. Like it or not, Rihanna fans. That's why I tries to stay away from the Rihanna vs Bey wars because they aren't peers, they aren't of the same generation of artists. Bey's peers or contemporaries are Alicia, Brandy, Aaliyah, Monica, etc. Even Toni Braxton. told you this in her interview on this very site. Toni and Bey are contemporaries too.

Rihanna's contemporaries are Amerie, Ciara, Tierra Marie, Cherish, Jennifer Hudson, Melanie Fiona, Keyshia Cole(and even she had been in the industry when she was young). It's just like True Blue said, you don't attack the artists who have influenced your fave. For example, I prefer Bey's music over MJB's but I know that MJB has influenced her and pretty much most Urban female artists, for that matter.

So if I was a Rihanna stan, if I would rather my fave artist be compared to the successes to her contemporaries and have her establish her own apart from them. Comparing her to someone who has been doing this from when she was 7 is not the right thing for Rihanna stans to do. Just saying.