Rihanna Really Is the Raunchiest Woman In Music

Rihanna, Rude Girl (Getty) It's a little hard to believe, but Rihanna doesn't think her act is all that sexy. Yes, she spends a lot of time pretending to pleasure herself with a microphone in a spangled bikini, but that's just part of the game.

Earlier this month, she shrugged to British Vogue, "That's not me. That's a part I play... It's a piece of art, all these toys and textures to play with." She also told Esquire – for whom she posed covered in seaweed and dirt – that her act isn't overtly sexual: "At the end of a concert, I don't feel like I've been this sexy thing. Really, I don't even think about it. . . I guess people find different things sexy."
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Is Beyonce's 'Countdown' Music Video Choreography Plagiarized?

Beyonce (FlyNet Pictures) There are quite a few references played out in the new music video for Beyonce Knowles' single "Countdown," some of them far more obvious than others.

The video's director, Adria Petty, explained to MTV, "I brought Beyoncé a number of references and we picked some out together. Most were German modern-dance references, believe it or not. But it really evolved."

Most fans will be able to pick up on the visual allusions to icons Audrey Hepburn, Diana Ross and Whitney Houston, but few would have noticed the shocking similarities between dance sequences in "Countdown" and the work of Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker were it not for the good old Internet.

This isn't the first time Beyonce's been accused of plagiarizing concepts: Earlier this year, eagle-eyed viewers noted that her Billboard Music Awards performance was strikingly similar to that of Italian pop star Lorella Cuccarini. It turned out that Knowles, inspired by Cuccarini's performance, had met with people on the other singer's creative team.