Grace Jones slams Rihanna, Nicki Minaj and Miley Cyrus

67, Grace Jones was a trailblazer in the 1970s when she dressed up in leather and lingerie for an androgynous stage look to belt out the hits Pull Up To The Bumper and Love Is The Drug. But now she says that the current crop of chart toppers are doing what has already been done. More after the cut...

the singer back in 1990

The comments were from an excerpt from her book I'll Never Write My Memoirs, which was printed in The Telegraph on Thursday.

she said:

'They dress up as though they are challenging the status quo, but by now, wearing those clothes, pulling those faces, revealing those tattoos and breasts, singing to those fractured, spastic, melting beats – that is the status quo,' 

  

'You are not off the beaten track, pushing through the thorny undergrowth, finding treasure no one has come across before.

'You are in the middle of the road. You are really in Vegas wearing the sparkly full-length gown singing to people who are paying to see you but are not really paying attention. If that is what you want, fine, but it’s a road to nowhere.'

The singer also said, 'I have been so copied by those people who have made fortunes, people assume I am that rich,' the icon said in the excerpt.

'But I did things for the excitement, the dare, the fact that it was new, not for the money, and too many times I was the first, not the beneficiary.'

'Trends come along and people say, "Follow that trend,"' she said.

'There's a lot of that around at the moment: "Be like Sasha Fierce. Be like Miley Cyrus. Be like Rihanna. Be like Lady Gaga. Be like Rita Ora and Sia. Be like Madonna,"' she added.

'I cannot be like them - except to the extent that they are already being like me.'

Jones I’ll Never Write My Memoirs from Simon And Schuster will be out on September 24.

now 67 in 2015