Indeed, after 2013’s close saw former foes Lady Gaga and Christina Aguilera joined forces for ‘Do What U Want’, music lovers kick their new year off getting cozy with ‘Can’t Remember To Forget You’ – the dynamo diva duet of Grammy-winning songstresses Shakira & Rihanna.
Launching what we hope is a year of diva double teams, the song inks its name aboard a long list of memorable collabos from the ladies of pop & R&B – collectively putting to rest rumors that women don’t work well together in the industry. And, while the net (and we at TGJ) are still making up our minds on Shakira and Ri’s latest offering, we can’t help but reflect on the ‘best of’ diva duets to see how the Roc Nation duo stack up.
Compiling a list of our favorite estrogen-tinged tag teams, tuck in below to see who made our tally and tell us your thoughts:
TGJ’s Favorite Diva Duets (in no particular order)
Whitney Houston & Cece Winans – ‘Count On Me’
Brandy & Monica – ‘The Boy Is Mine’
Beyonce & Lady Gaga – ‘Video Phone (remix)’
Whitney Houston & Mariah Carey – ‘When You Believe’
Lady Gaga & Christina Aguilera – ‘Do What U Want’
Karen Clark Sheard & Dorinda Clark Cole – ‘He Knows’
Beyonce & Lady Gaga – ‘Telephone’
Jennifer Hudson & Fantasia – ‘I’m His Only Woman’
Mary J. Blige/Faith Evans – ‘Love Don’t Live Here Anymore’
Beyonce & Shakira – ‘Beautiful Liar’
Keyshia Cole/Monica – ‘Trust’
Celine Dion & Barbra Streisand – ‘Tell Him’
the boy is mine slays them all >>>>
Whitney >>>>>>> Pigriah
Put in a love song >>>>>>> Telephone
Do what you want > Can’t remember to buy you
i want a Ciara and Jlo collaboration
That would flop twice as fast
Well Shakira and Rihanna´s duet is crap compared to many of these other duets!
If we don´t go back in time “Do What You Want” new version slays it effortlessly, from the vocals to everything else. Basically cos the original created by Gaga is so damn good (my fav single released in 2013).
If we talk about true greats… LMAO well Celine+Barbra! Whitney+Mariah Just WOW Especially Tell Him is absolutely stunning, those voices, those first seconds with Celine alone… hair raising. The rest can´t compete with that. They are maybe cute, but that´s it.
Beautiful liar>>>>>>>>>> Can’t remember garbage.
Molly
When will your fav
http://youtu.be/ZlObJAlSi78
@Jojo honestly could care less about chart position they would make a dope song plus an epic dance video. f*** outta here h** .
Out of all thee songs mud favs in order
When you Believe
Count on Me
Tell Him
Beautiful Liar
Do What U Want
Can’t Forget To Remember You
One of her rare decent performances… Ciara slays stages sweetie.
Y’all reaching….
Lol Molly is so pressed these days.
Honestly, beautiful Liar >>>> CRTFY
That beautiful Liar video slayed. That song is everything.
Actually , when You believe is on of my least favourite dogs in Mariah’s discography. It’s just not my type of tune.
Least favourite song**
Oopps Before I leave…
Count On Me >>>>>
Count On Jesus, Threw Thick & Thin
A Relationship, That Will Never End
When You Are Weak, Jesus Will Be Strong
Helping Our Sinful Selves, To Carry On
Call On Jesus In Your Prayes, Dont EVER be affraid
Please Believe me, When I say
COUNT ON THE LORD & SAVIOR JEHOVAH GOD & HIS ONLY SON JESUS CHRIST !!!!
& I mean every word I wrote. We are nothing without God!!!
Bye!
The fact is this was going to be about Beautiful Liar vs This trash i can’t wait to forget. But everyone knows which is the better song of the 2, so throw in some legends and a has been in the mix to stir the pot some more.
SLAYRIAH calling people pressed OK OK LOL you are the most sour person on this site you fool, and the song is s***! The legacy of Beautiful Liar will go unharmed.
I don’t like Rih’s duet AT ALL, so it comes in near the bottom. Her best one was with Breezy, Cake,Cake,Cake … Yea, that one!
Best 3 of all time:
#1 Brandy & Monica
This was a mutha f**king duet! Everything about the song was just >>>>>.
#2 Whitney & Mariah (The Voice meets the songbird). This was as diva as it gets!
#3 Beyonce & Shakira That video was slaying lives! They look like twins taking over the world!
Most of the others were just pretty mediocre tbh.
It wasn’t a duet, but the Lady Marmalade (Christina, Pink,Mya & Lil Kim) was also noteworthy.
do any mariah stans on here like her song ‘close my eyes’ from the butterfly era, such a beautiful amazing song, I just wanted to see if any other mc stans agreed?
Beautiful Liar and The Boy Is Mine
Closed my eyes is a beautiful song. I also love beautiful ones, Whenever You Call, and oustside.
BOY IS MINE: hands down best of all time…, period!!!
Did you know that the lambs got close my Eyes to #1 in Hungary a few months ago? Lol, the lambs are so powerful. A song that want even released as a single from an album that’s almost 20 years. Lol #Lambchops
its so funny everyone hollering about beautiful liar, I cannot honestly remember the hook or anything about that song.
Can’t remember is already #11 on itunes
To be honest;
The Boy is mine >>>>>>>
It was Beyonce jumping on the bandwagon of that at the time hot singer, hips don’t lie Shakira and sucking the life from her, like she did with lady gaga.
Rihanna is bringing her back, guess she and Gaga will need to duet as every since her duet with Beyonce too, things just haven’t been the same.
I like Can’t remember to Forget, especially “kisses in the moonlight”
Whenever you call is my favorite Mariah Carey song from Butterfly, I usually like songs
From her albums even more than the singles, like my favorite songs from her debut are
Sent From Up Above, Alone In Love, and Vanishing. I say her debut was her best album
I loved every song don’t have to skip a track
AMEN AMEN AMEN!!!!!!
1. The boy is mine
2. Same Script, Different Cast
3. Beautiful Liar
Beyonce kinda looked like Wendy Williams in the beautiful Liar video though. I don’t if it was because she was working over time to keep up with Shakira. The song was still great though.
Y’all need to post some Tinashe on this site. She just came out with her new single. I bet y’all are going to be talking about her very soon. #KeepIgnoring
I wonder why Put It In A Love Song video never got released. Although I remember when Bey came out at Alicia’s concert in Madison Square Gardens and completely stole the show. And she was holding back :/
If you wasn’t so shady Slayriah we probably could get along well and discuss Mimi’s discography but you love to drag my fav, and if anyone looks like Wendy Williams it’s probably Mariah with her current figure, no shade though I love mariah. Close My Eyes, Butterfly, Anytime You Need A Friend, My All, Petals are all classics. Please Lambily, I’m a member of the Hive and I havn’t a bad thing to say about mariah so please try be less shady to bey, My stanship goes: Bey/Lana/ Mariah
Im still waiting for Janet (The Legend) Jackson to get off her high ass horse, and do an appropriate duet with Ciara!!!!!!
But this Skakira and Rihanna song doesn’t compare to any of the others listed.
JHud & Beyonce need to slaay us with an iconic duet, It would give very Mariah and Whitney ish….
@Del Bey
Well why dont you add Cannon or Carey to your name
Ummm why wasn’t Beyonce and Shakira Beautiful Liar included in the poll?
Whatever happened to TELEPHONE PT.2 ??????
And Monica & Brandy need to leave duets alone after TBIM, We all remember what happened with 2012’s It All Belongs To Me (Although I liked the song) It majorly underperformed!!!!
I think all of those duets are better than Rihanna and Shakira’s. My top 3 favorites:
#1 Brandy and Monica The Boy is Mine
#2 Mariah and Whitney When You Believe
#3 Alicia and Beyonce Put it in a love song
Okay… Well you’re officially dismissed. You can’t claim to be a Mariah fan if you’re going to say she looks like Wendy Williams and mock her body shape. Stay with the hive and Lana Stans. The lambily don’t want you. & my all is my favourite Mariah song . Seriously the most beautiful ballad ever. Anytime you need a friend slays too. Everything Fades away from music box. Forever. Lead the Way. Endless love. Live all those songs .
Its boring and forgettable from a 1st listen. And I am a huge Rihanna fan.
TBIM >>>>
The rest I don’t really care about including Beautiful Liar
Beautiful liar was average to me telephone slayed it tbh and this Rihanna and Shakira song is pretty basic like Beyonces vocabulary.
Rihanna S&M remix slayed aswell Rihanna wouldn’t of got her 10th number 1 if it wasn’t for Britney. Not really a fan of SMS and of course me against the music slayed them all tbh.
NOT a Braindeadney stan trying to throw shade….
Hey fraudyonce boo!
Slayriah
Yes, love Everything Fades Away. Melt Away is another one of my favs
telephone and do what you want with Christina snatched your wigs for sure
Funny how Rihanna struck this conversation with her feat and not Gaga and eXtina.
Damn! “Can’t remember to buy you” lmfaooooo
“Can’t remember to forget you” is the worst duet everr. Beautiful liar >>>>>>>>
#1 Brandy and Monica The Boy is Mine
#2 Mariah and Whitney When You Believe
#3 Beyonce Shakira – beautiful liar (The video tho dammn)
Lemme put my d*** in your mouth XD
@REESE
Can’t wait to forget is pure s***. They could have kept that mess.
“When You Believe” >>>> Impact Alone !!!! It is huge !!!!
MC ALSO LOOKS GREAT, SHE IS CURVY & NOWHERE NEAR WENDY WILLIAMS, LOOKSWISE.. ANOTHER ARTIST IS CLOSER LOL & THIS SITE SWEARS BY HER !!!!
Brandy & Monica – The Boy is Mine
Alexandra Burke & Beyonce – Listen
Yes, I think we will get this duet sooner than most think. This will be the best collaboration ever when it finally get to be, JHud has learn self vocal control and Beyoncé already perfection in vocal control. Also can’t wait for the right song/duet Beyoncé/Luke James
Lol @ ‘mc is curvy’ I have seen curvier bricks!
Britney Spears & Madonna’s is a true pop legend.
No one could erase this historic achievement.
#fact
While I love the new joint by Shakira and Rihanna and the joint by Shakira and Beyonce, I will have to say that, “The Boy Is Mine” is at the top for me. That song is a classic.
Honestly i hate duets between women, the boy is mine’ is overrated as f***, Whitney and Mariah’s duet is also f****** overrated, I’m yet to be impressed or mind blowing by any of these women together, that being said, I think a duet between Kylie and Madonna would be an orgasm to my ears but even that could turn out to be a disappointed.
Weigh In: How Does Shakira & Rihanna’s New Tune Stack Up Against Other Famous Diva Duets?
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It DOESN’T,SHAKIRA ft RIHANNA is PURE TRASH GARBAGE. It is one of the worst collaboration ever. That song is pure trash. How can you or anyone like that childish lyrical weak song?
That sh!t song doesn’t deserve a place between those others on that list, it’s just like putting dog sh!t between clean white clothes.
And where is Shakira ft Beyonce “beautiful liar” was #1 in many countries.
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If you know what good music is, if you know what good lyrical music is, THAN YOU KNOW THAT SHAKIRA FT RIHANNA IS PURE TRASH, it doesn’t belong in that list, it doesn’t deserve a place in that list.
Only a Shakira or Rihanna fan that doesn’t care about real good lyrical strong music, and cares only about Shakira or Rihanna bum body will buy that TRASH.
Shakira ft Rihanna is a waist of your TIME,EAR. PURE TRASH.
I will never download that trash not even if it was for free.
“Can’t remember to forget you” is the worst duet everr
And I totally agree with you. It’s pure trash.
SHAKIRA FT BEYONCE IS 1000TIMES BETTA THAN SHAKIRA FT RIHANNA .
How can you or anyone even listening to Shakira ft Rihanna more than 1 or 2 times. I can’t even believe that THAT lyrical weak childish song that is make by 2 grow ups is for real, still think that’s a joke. Pure trash garbage etc.
???? I see Beyonce ft Shakira video but I don’t see their name it in the list.
#1 Monica and Brandy …. TBIM
#2 Whitney and Mariah
#3 Beyonce and Mary J….
Rihanna and Shakira need fire a** video. Im sure the video will push their song to the top. But vocally, lyrically, and production wise…it doesn’t begin to compare to some of the other duets.
My fave duets are all of them except the Lady gaga and christina and sharika and rih duet ( which I think it is pretty new to be in a poll) the “do what you want” remix I Should said come have been better if the lyrical content change from the original…. future duets that I would love to hear would be ciara and janet jackson, beyonce and brandy or melanie fiona or luke james, maraiah and leona lewis would be hot, ciara and trey songz or omarion or miguel, miguel and trey songz, kelly rowland and brandy, mary j blige and anita baker, and many more my other fave that wasn’t it the polls lauryn hill and mary j blige off the miseducation album ( #10) fantasia and j-hud, alicia keys and jimmy cozier, beyonce and luther vandeross,aaliyah and ginuwine and etc
LOOOOOL! Honestly though, I’ve been trying to remember the hook of that Bey and Shakira song. All i remember is that its called “Beautiful Liar” and its ONLY because her TGJ employees keep churning that butter.
The “Telephone” song with her and Gaga had MUCH more HYPE… but even that was blocked by Rihanna’s “Rude Boy”. kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
This Rih/Shakira song came out like yesterday and is already like #11 on US itunes and #1 in 32 countries.
Your attempt to overshadow the success of this duet is so futile its laughable. *Sips sorrel*
“count on me” was my 5th grade graduation song! Lmao! Whitney and CeCe DID that! TBIM is my favorite female duet of all time, with Count on me in a close second lol
I love MONICA
Boy Is Mine …Hands Down
@beyonce not a fraudyonce stan throwing shade. 🙁
Beautiful Liar is a better song than Can’t remember to forget you.
I don’t like ICRTFU that much , I brought it but rarely listen to it. I like Rih’s part more than shakiras tbh. I just can’t deal with shakiras voice.
‘The Boy is Mine’ is the best, imo, and I’m not even a fan of Brandy or Monica.