While you might think "Fleshtone" singer Kelis is being arrogant when she says "I don't feel like there is any competition," she has a few interesting points to make beyond the usual comparisons and talk of Rihanna, Lady Gaga and other artists.

"It’s funny, and I don’t know whether that’s arrogance, but I don’t feel like there is any competition," Kelis told PopJustice recently. "It depends on how you approach music making. For me to say that there was competition, well I would have to have approached making an album in a very different way because no-one can compete with my own life. No-one can compete with the experiences that made me write what I write."

According to Kelis, no one can compete with her life, which often inspires the music that comes forth, including songs on "Fleshtone".

"I don’t write music to please anybody. I don’t write music to get on the charts. It’s nice when that happens, that’s a great defining moment, but either way I’d have written the same thing," Kelis says. "No-one can compete with the birth of my child, no-one can compete with my reverence for God. There’s absolutely not a single person in the world that can challenge that for me."

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