So the blogs have been going nuts for the past couple of days because fashion Icon/singer Grace Jones put Lady Gaga on blast. Jones turned down an offer to collaborate with Gaga – because she refuses to work with a star who has been “copying” her style.
“Yes, she did (ask about a duet), but I said no. I’d just prefer to work with someone who is more original and someone who is not copying me, actually. Well, you know, I’ve seen some things she’s worn that I’ve worn, and that does kind of piss me off.”
When asked if she would ever see Gaga in concert, Jones said, “I wouldn’t go to see her.” [SOURCE]
HAHA GET HER GRACE…IF ITS TRUE, ITS FUNNY!
Grace, please sit down.
OK who in the world is GRACE JONES ????
I also think Grace needs to sit down, but still that’s a pretty big blow. Gaga not only needs the support of the fans but she also needs the respect from her peers. It’s going to be hard for her to get collabos if her peers get the impression that she’s a copycat.
LADY GAGA DID STILL GRACE JONES STYLE!!!
WHO IS GRACE JONES??? OMG SHE IS THE ORIGINAL THAT CAME UP WITH ALL THESE CRAZY STYLES.
#4 what does collabo got to do with that. Dumbest comment ever made on cloop!
Grace, no disrespect, but thats just like saying because u wore a black mask no other entertainer can. Or even better… If one man puts on a wig, heels and carries purses and calls himself a dragqueen, no other man better do it. One rapper, One black tv co-host, One urban blog for entertainment. Miss thing get over yourself. You should be happy someone is thinking about paying homage to your legendary ass… That is all.
1978 Grace Jones Album Titled: “FAME”
Lady Gaga’s 1st Album Titled: “The FAME”
Need I say more.
Why does Grace need to sit down? I don’t think Grace was throwing shade at Gaga…afterall who is Gaga? I wouldn’t want to work with someone that’s not innovative nor original either.
If U ask me they both look a hot mess!
drama dupree sit that chunky a-s-s of yours down STAT. you sound like one of those people who buy the EXACT same outfit their friend has the day after the friend showed it and then shashay while screaming its a free country *rolls eyes*
Im sorry but grace has the right to be upset. Its one thing to be inspired by(and give credit) but for someone to completely rip you off then get credit for being an original? i would be pissed too. When mariah carey first came out she was a direct rip off from whitney houston, same style, same dress, same image. lil Kim and Nicki Minaj same thing. R kelly, trey Songs. i would be pissed too.
Grace PUH-LEEEZE! I have seen/heard in several interviews that GaGa credits Grace, Madonna & Boy George as her inspiration regarding style. She acts as if shes the only one under the sun to be avant garde or “weird”. But when did GaGa ever say that she invented her style? EVERYTHING has been done before… get over yourself Ms. Jones… we love you, but sit down and be humbled that someone admires you.
This whole lady gaga thing makes me want to slip back into my old school music oblivion.
I love me some Grace Jones. However in all honesty she shouldn’t even comment on people like Lady Gaga this is some what beneath her. She is a living icon and I love Gaga so don’t get me wrong but its obvious that her style is mainly a mimic of Graces.
YOU YOUNG PPL STANS FANS OR WHATEVER ARE DELUSIONAL THATS SAD. YOU R THERE SUPPORTIN ARTISTS WHO NEVER INVENTIN SH!T AND KEEP STEALIN. PPL THINK GAGA IS ORIGINAL BUT SHE IS NOT. AT ALL. CHECK HER ON YOUTUBE WHEN SHE WAS AN INDEPENDENT ARTIST. SHE WAS REGULAR. GRACE IS THE TRUE INVENTOR OF THE EXTRAVANGAZZA AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN THIS WAY. THOZ PPL YOURE SUPPORTIN ARE GIMMICKS. RIHANNAS TOUR OUTFITS ARE GRACE’S. HOW SAD. YOUTUBE GRACE JONES. GAGA AND RIHANNA AINT GOT SH!T ON HER. SHE IS LEGENDARY SO SHE SHOULDNT EVEN ADRESS IT. BUT I KNOW IT MUST BE FRUSTRATED TO SEE PPL STEAL YOUR STYLE AND GETTIN PRAISED FOR.
@ DIZZYGUY1985
THANK YOU!!
THESE PEOPLE ON CL DON’T KNOW JACK SH!T ABOUT GRACE JONES.
WHERE ARE ALL THE PEOPLE YELLING SWAGGER JACKER NOW???
You tell Shim Grace Jones. It’s one thing to get a little inspired by an artist, but to straight jock someones style and claim it as your own, not giving credit where it’s due. And not acknowledging the artist you jocked. Shameful. I would be more than pissed if an artist did that to me and i was in the industry, knowing i came up with the trend. And people giving this Shim credit. Hell no i’m not working with your stealing ass. I wish gaga would go away. He’s so unoriginal and fake.
Lmao @ Grace! She put that fake azz tranny gaga in check! No I will not collaborate with you beyotch!
Werk Strangé!
WHERE YOU GUYS THAT LAZY NOT TO POST THE QUESTIONS THEY ASKED HER AND JUST PUT HER ANSWERS TOGETHER LIKE THAT?
TEAM GRACE! LOL!
Grace this is beneath you, but yeah pretty much Gaga swagger jacked her shit.It’s one of those “it is what it is” type things.
You kids don’t know who Grace Jones is better Youtube her or ask about her!
@Tickle true gaga was [regular] when she released her first album, but did you see/hear her music circa 2002? its much like what shes doing now… even the style. she was in a band called gaga & the starlight revue. when she got a deal, they tried to change her and make her toned down to appeal to a contemporary audience, hence her reason for leaving the label. but i have heard her say that she admires grace jones before, why is everybody acting like she claims to have invented her sense of style?
Get her Grace, Ms. Grace is too many things, and could really give a %#$@! what ANYone thinks about her. I don’t blame her for throwing shade on Gagme that’s her choice. Grace’s body is ridic BTW especially for her age…STRANGE’ darling!
Go Grace! She has never been afraid to say, do or wear whatever the f*ck she wants and I love her for it!
OK #3 Mariana – You just revealed how young you are!! Sit down!!
Grace Jones should just take it as a compliment! Imitation is the highest form of flattery! We all know you are one of the originators of this cooky style that is coming back (along with Bowie and others)…just sit back and revel in the fact that you started trends that are still being emulated today! It’s petty to comment on these ppl because you’re putting yourself on their level when you are already noted as an icon.
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I agree with Grace because I was just reading a magazine article about her a few days ago that talked about certain trends that she started in the music industry . But this is nothing new black people create trends and the popular music that sells in the billions and white people copy what blacks create and get the credit. Look at rap music , blacks created that . Then whites come along like Eminem and imitate the black rappers and get a ton of Grammys and get all the credit , like that movie ” Eight Mile “, for what blacks created with there genius and talent. This has been going on for generations.
AMAZING
@ MICK SWAGGA
PREACH ON!!
BUT BECAUSE GRACE IS A BLACK WOMAN THE CRAB IN A BARREL NEGROES WILL TELL HER TO SIT DOWN WHILE THEY PRAISE GAGA FOR BEING SO INNOVATIVE AND ORIGINAL. OH THE IRONY!
If there’s any1 that takin her style itz rhianna…rihanna looks like she jus walked up in grace home and invited herself to grace closet with all those crazy outfit she’s wearing on her tour….jus sayin
OH WOW, HA HA FUNNY. ANYWAY, LOVES GAGA.
@ 29 I AGREE
GRACE JONES IS A FASHION ICON, for those who want to play her . She has had major disco hits, she is a icon for african american women in high fashion. She is a women who doesn’t play buy the rules, and really bent them with her entire image. Google her you will be surprised…
I’ve been saying that to my friends from time that Grace Jones done this shit before wack Gaga, and they don’t believe me- the younger people 20- 25 years old. Good Grace Jones put Gaga in her place, swagger jacker!!! I don’t blame Grace Jones don’t want to colabrate with her!!! Grace Jones what the chick who sung “Pull Up to the Bumper”, in case no one knows, big 90′s tune. Younger cats- watch that video on you tube and other Grace Jones videos. Also Grace Jones was in the 1992 movie Boomerang with Eddie Murphy and Hale Berry, so she was huge with her style back in the 80′s and 90′s. Also Labelle- Patty Labelle old 70′s female group used to dress like Gaga too, so GAGA IS NOT ORGINIAL!!!!
If you are a youngin’, you wouldn’t agree with Grace Jones, but if you are a bit older, you know she has a point. Lady GaGa…(i like her as an artist) wasn’t dressing crazy like in the begining.
Don’t care about either one of em’….. Female Drag-queens.
Mean but true.
I think people are just upset at Lady Gaga’s success. The only person that isn’t acourse is beyonce and Madonna. People forget about all the hate Whitney Houston recieved when she first came out. She was hated by y everyone in the industry for being to “white”. Style is style… There are only so many ways you can wear an outfit before you do something that “somebody” else did LOL… Human beings are limited.
That said, its great that Lady Gaga acknoweledge Grace, because she really didn’t have to.. Ms gaga need to stay focused on her fans, and except the industry “hate” as part of the game, and keep reaching for the stars
She did jack Grace style….think about it. If you was an artist that originated something and years later a new artists comes out doing the same thing you did and not acknowledge that the orignator influence them..then yes it fucked up..so I agree with Jones! Even at the MTV awards last year, one of the interviewers made the comment that Lady Ga Ga is our modern day Grace Jones. I’ve always thought that she got her style from Jones and Madonna. Her pop songs are hot though! Thats like people going crazy of that girl Nicki Manaj who doing all those colorful hairs and outfits and we all know lil Kim been there and done that. It’s nothing wrong with letting an artist influence you but when you take something they made and try to make your own and not acknowledge them..then thats where the problems come in. So all you people making the bad comments about Grace..think about somebody taking your shit!
Gaga & Rihanna wish the were Grace Jones and definitely imitate her. However, all three are ugly androgynous creatures that tuck and su.ck.
ahahaha another jealous one bites the dust….thats for all you otha haters out there too
“Old, bitter, jealous, hag, hater [fill in the blank]” – Its always the same BROKEN ass record with some of ya’ll, huh? Stop acting like Lady CaCa is VIRGIN MARY.
Grace Jones was ASKED, and she gave an honest answer, period. There’s no reason whatsoever for her to bite her tongue or sugarcoat just to please a hot & bothered passive aggressive bunch who always view an “opinion” as “hate” She didn’t give a crawling fuck what people think of her when she started out then, it’ll freeze in hell if she gonna start now at the age of 60
Don’t worry about Grace Jones being jealous, there’s no reason for that,,,the bitch will still be the talk of town when those “posers” with contrived images and NOTHING TO SAY are distant, faded memories of wannabes gone by.
I think you all are missing the point that Grace Jones is trying to make and it has nothing to do with style of dressing its much more deeper than that it has to do with thier MUSIC.
Graces Jones would never try to come for RIHANNA cause for one thing they are both intelligent strong black women and both Fashion Icons. Rihanna doesnt try to copy her music she just relives certain fashion decades of Jones thats a Tribute not coping….there is a difference.
Now when you are gonna Have albums with the same names and dressing the same way of another artist you are copying not being orignal.
Beyonce is legend for doing this and the media calls her out on it everytime so this is nothing new to the industry.
We will always have trend setters and then we will always have Kopy Cats aka trend followers
no one can really say that they really created something. so all this swagga jack and copying styles needs to be put to rest. If we were to really breakdown graces style we would find influences from that. Imitation is the biggest form of flattery, she should appreciate that her style has influenced some1
I’m on Grace’s side for this one. I totally think originality is important in terms of branding an artist. Look at my favorite artist, Janelle Monae. She totally is orginial in terms of her style and presentation.
Sorry Gaga. I like you but this round goes to Grace : /
@45
Stop trying to make Rihanna happen because theres nothing “ICONIC” about her style. She’s a copycat just like Gaga.
Every musician is influenced by someone. Instead of acting all stank and indignant, she should’ve been flattered. I mean, really Grace? Say what you will about Gaga (personally, I’m no fan of either), but she’s current, she’s selling records, and she’s all over the radio. Question: The last time you heard a Grace record on the radio in constant rotation was when? Yeah, exactly what I thought.
@ 48
I don’t need to try to make RIHANNA “happen” if you are currently residing in this century, dis day and age just pick up a magazine or watch the news or even look at the charts and see that little miss SUNSHINE BEEN HAPPENING….NEXT!!!!
Grace Jones please GROW UP! Artists these days are so damn childish, as if she was the first person herself to wear the style I seriously doubt it! Its funny because Gaga looks up to Grace hmm probably why she’s influenced by the same style!! Should be happy someone even acknowledges your ass enough to jack your shit.
@ROCKSTAR 101 BIMSHORE so gaga is copying but riri, who is wears EXACT replicas of grace’s outfits, isn’t? lmao gaga’s music is nothing like grace’s and neither is riri’s music but both have been imitating her and that’s a fact. at least gaga can play an instrument and sing. riri relies completely on style so the fact that she’s copying someone else’s style is a problem
grace does not care about being on the radio, TRUST
grace does not care about lady haha fans, TRUST
grace is not reading any of this, TRUST
grace jones does not care about YOUR industry, TRUST
WHATS AN INDUSTRY WHEN U R UR OWN MTHR FCKN UNIVERSE
im not bias, im just a disciple.
also, yes comment 44. yes. she was ASKED and she TOLD. dont be mad, rejection cant feel good… but stop feeling bad WITH caca, she got her green paper to wipe her tears… shell be fine…. puhlease… i dont hate her, i just think her music is a bore. catchy, but lifeless.
My sister and I noticed that Gaga stay jacking GRACE JONES a long time ago. We are big Grace Jones fans. The only reason Gaga is getting praised for this “look” is b/c shes white (main stream) lets just be real.
Well hey thats her opinion, i mean she doesn’t have to be rude about it, there’s nothing about “enertainment” thats all that original anyway, every artist releases CDs, goes on toures, does promotion etc. you just try to be as original as you can, and hopefully thats by being yourself
@50
Just because Rihanna wears designer clothes, that doesnt make her a fashion icon. There’s nothing innovative or fashion forward about her. To top it off, she don’t even dress herself, stylist much? You pathetic Rihanna stans are so delusional to even think that. Hilarious!
#48 lmao I know right, the irony! rihanna used the exact same outfit gracce wore not a long ago for her tour and u have the neerve to call out gaga!
concrete loop please do who rocked it better grace jones vs rihanna google it its the exact same sh!t
Ahhh that sh!t is funny lmao. Now watch the LG stans get mad.
*Wassup Grace*
……..Grace comment came off as rude….but this is jus an excerpt so i wont judge.
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Grace Jones did not start Avant-garde fashion, so she needs to sit down and humble herself, she was not a successful singer in the least bit…atleast Gaga has some humbleness and respect for other artist…and as for that Rihanna Grace Jones thing, Christina rocked it before them in the fighter video, minus the mask