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http://www.rwdmag.com/articles/6610/RWD-talk-to-Ciara.html

The 'Like a Boy' singer fills RWD in on Bow Wow, Rihanna, 50 Cent and why she was never really interested in Aaliyah!
Interview by Archna Sawjani

When we last spoke you mentioned how you wanted people to see you as your own person and not constantly compare you to Aaliyah. Do you think you have now achieved that?

Absolutely. I'll be honest prior from me being a artist; I didn't really look at Aaliyah's work as much as I have done so now only because I wanted to see why people compared us so much. I was definitely a fan of Aaliyah's music but the performances that I was looking at when I was growing up were Michael Jackson and Janet. So I'd see Aaliyah's videos on MTV and so on, but it wasn't like the same admiration I had for Michael and Janet. I didn't really follow Aaliyah's career like that.

If that wasn't bad enough --- in the Fader magazine tribute to Aaliyah, she wasn't even talking about Aaliyah, she just talked about herself and kept explaining how she wasn't trying to be like her, blah blah blah. Shut up ho! Ain't nobody asked you all of that. I typed up what she said:

CIARA

I wanted to make sure I wasn't doing the things Aaliyah was doing, but I think there are some things that you just can't avoid. I'm a tomboy and to my understanding, that's a similarity with her and I'm sure that's the reason why we wear clothes a certain way. It was just important to me to make sure that we had different energy, that there are different things going on. I wear my baggy pants because thats what I feel. It's just me expressing myself, and in no shape or way of trying to emulate what she has done, although I have tons of respect for her. It's funny too, because I remember a time period when Missy Elliott was telling me that I reminded her of Aaliyah and I felt that was really touching because she was saying that I reminded her of her on a personal note and I've heard so many great things about her personality. I heard she was very sweet and for Missy to say that was very, very meaningful to me. As an artist too, because of those comparisons, it has really, really motivated me to create my own things and just be true to who I am. If she was here, I would've loved to maybe do a song or do a video together. To be able to merge our styles would've been really cool.

Ciara is an R&B singer.