Kelly Rowland Shuts Down Beyonce Comparisons

Unbiased lady! Kelly Rowland didn’t mince phrases after a radio DJ mentioned her “place” as “second” to Beyoncé.

“You occur to be standing subsequent to the brightest mild on planet earth. You assume Huge Boi from Outkast has it powerful being subsequent to Andre [3000], you’re with Beyoncé,” Scorching 97 DJ Peter Rosenberg instructed the Future’s Baby alum, 41, on Ebro within the Morning With Laura Stylez and Rosenberg on Wednesday, November 16. “And never solely did you not must struggle it, like, you actually liked the place you have been in and took it significantly.”

The “Dilemma” singer, 41, reacted to Rosenberg — who additionally commented on her “potential to play second to Beyoncé” — with a candid and poised reply.

“Right here’s the factor: Gentle attracts mild. I’m mild. I’m a lovely, brown, shining mild,” the “Survivor” artist stated. “So, I don’t assume anyone’s mild dims anybody else’s. I feel that when different individuals begin to examine you, I feel that’s when it exhibits how dim they’re of themselves.”

She continued: “I don’t take another person attempting to dim my mild anymore for anyone else. I like B, I do know that she’s a light-weight, however I do know that I’m a light-weight too.”

Rosenberg, nevertheless, solely doubled down on his remarks about Rowland’s “position” inside Future’s Baby — which the Grammy winner didn’t take calmly.

“You would have rested in your laurels and simply been like, ‘Hey, I’m a part of this iconic group. My greatest buddy is the most important star on the earth. We kick ass, we’re superior,’” the radio persona emphasised, earlier than Rowland lower in along with her reply.

“And her greatest friend-slash-sister is without doubt one of the huge stars on the earth too. Folks solely see issues one-sided … we each shine collectively,” the “Brown Eyes” artist hit again. “Now everyone is … beginning to consider this factor the place … ‘Just one lady can do that and so they shine the most important.’ My sister has knocked down doorways and made positions for thus many ladies that appear to be her, which are a deeper shade than her, however particularly for Black ladies and put Black ladies somewhere else we’re grateful for. But additionally any person else did that for her, and one other group has completed that for us. And I do it for different brown women, so it’s a cycle and an area for all of us to open up doorways for one another as an alternative of examine. Don’t be so restricted.”

Rosenberg, for his half, later issued an apology to the “Say My Title” singer by way of Twitter, whereas she thanked fans for all the time “hav[ing] my again.”

Rowland, who rose to fame within the ‘90s in Future’s Baby alongside the “Formation” artist, 41, and Michelle Williams, has been sincere over time about feeling like she’s been dwelling in Beyoncé’s shadow all through their careers.

“Are you able to think about what it’s like being in a gaggle with Beyoncé? I’d simply torture myself in my head,” the “Brown Eyes” artist revealed on The Voice Australia in 2020. “Like, I can’t put on this costume as a result of they’re going to say it’s like B. Or, I can’t have a tune like that as a result of it sounds an excessive amount of like B. They’re gonna examine anyhow.”

She elaborated: “I’d be mendacity if I stated, ‘No, it’s by no means bothered me.’ That’s bull. There was an entire decade, if I’m being fully sincere, a decade the place it was just like the elephant within the room. It was the factor that will continually be on my shoulder.”

Beyoncé, for her half, has ceaselessly praised her former Future’s Baby bandmates — most lately giving them a shout-out on the “Queens” remix of her July hit, “Break My Soul.”