--- title: Kelly Clarkson Covers Bitch Better Have My Money by Rihanna: Video description: Kelly Clarkson puts a soulful spin on Rihanna's single canonical: https://time.com/3909855/kelly-clarkson-rihanna-cover/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-04T20:57:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:26.066Z og:title: Kelly Clarkson's Soulful Rihanna Cover Shows Why She Should Sing More R&B og:description: Hear her version of one of Rihanna's singles og:url: https://time.com/3909855/kelly-clarkson-rihanna-cover/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kelly Clarkson's Soulful Rihanna Cover Shows Why She Should Sing More R&B twitter:description: Hear her version of one of Rihanna's singles twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Kelly Clarkson's Soulful Rihanna Cover Shows Why She Should Sing More R&B ## Video: Late-Night Highlight: Jimmy Fallon And Kelly Clarkson Sing History Of Duets [Watch (HLS stream): Late-Night Highlight: Jimmy Fallon And Kelly Clarkson Sing History Of Duets](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/uRGuGQ5c.m3u8) (1:11)  _Published 2015-03-03. Kelly Clarkson took her duet skills to a whole new level Monday on the 'Tonight Show' with Jimmy Fallon._ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jun 4, 2015 8:57 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jun 4, 2015 8:57 PM UTC We said it when she [covered Tracy Chapman,](http://time.com/3750720/kelly-clarkson-give-me-one-reason-tracy-chapman-cover/) and we’ll say it again now: Kelly Clarkson really needs to sing more R&B and blues, because girl’s got _soul._ Listen above to her slower, jazzier version of Rihanna’s “Bitch Better Have My Money” performed for BBC Radio 1\. She’s accompanied by two back-up singers, a keyboardist and a guitarist — bu, like always, she’s clearly the star of the show here. You’ll notice that she cleans up the lyrics a bit, changing “bitch” to “y’all” and changing “turn up to Rihanna while the whole club f–kin’ wasted” to the more, uh, family-friendly “turn up to KC playing the whole club’s getting crazy.” Still waiting for that blues album, Kel. _Read next:_ [_See Kelly Clarkson’s Perfect Response to Body-Shaming Tweets_](http://time.com/3734007/kelly-clarkson-body-shaming-tweets-response/?iid=time%5Freadnext) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3909855/kelly-clarkson-rihanna-cover/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3909855/kelly-clarkson-rihanna-cover/"},"headline":"Kelly Clarkson's Soulful Rihanna Cover Shows Why She Should Sing More R&B","datePublished":"2015-06-04T20:57:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:26.066Z","description":"Hear her version of \"Bitch Better Have My Money\"","url":"https://time.com/3909855/kelly-clarkson-rihanna-cover/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3909855/kelly-clarkson-rihanna-cover/","name":"Kelly Clarkson's Soulful Rihanna Cover Shows Why She Should Sing More R&B"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Late-Night Highlight: Jimmy Fallon And Kelly Clarkson Sing History Of Duets","description":"Kelly Clarkson took her duet skills to a whole new level Monday on the 'Tonight Show' with Jimmy Fallon.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/uRGuGQ5c/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-03-03T14:25:33.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/uRGuGQ5c.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3909855/kelly-clarkson-rihanna-cover/","duration":"PT1M11S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3909855/kelly-clarkson-rihanna-cover/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```