KISS disses Rihanna

A press conference to announce KISS and Motley Crue’s 40-date co-headlining North American summer tour turned into a Rihanna diss session yesterday.
Outspoken KISS bassist Gene Simmons stressed that the bands’s sets would be live, unlike Rihanna’s stage show.
“We’re sick and tired of girls getting up there with dancers and karaoke tapes in back of them,” Simmons said, according to Billboard. “No karaoke singers allowed……Leave that to Rihanna-Schimianna and everybody else whose name ends with an ‘A.'”
After the press conference, Motley Crue’s Tommy Lee supported Simmons’s statements.
“No disrespect to Rihanna, she’s a great singer, but we’re in a slump for some …. that has some personality and appeal beyond a bunch of pop stuff that’s floating around out there,” he said. “I’m glad he said that actually because I don’t think I can bear watching another  award show that is just a little better than ‘American Idol….”