Superstar Rihanna has hit out at claims that suggest her 'Bitch Better Have My Money' music video was sexist and anti-feminist. 

During her new interview with the NME magazine, for the publication's first free edition, she explained that the reaction to the track's visuals confused her because all she set out to do was create art:

"At the end of the day the women won. The bitch was the man. So I'm confused. Those are the people that didn't get it. I'm not worried about those people. This was not a woman empowerment video. I was making a piece of art."

"I wanted people to feel like they'd got more than they'd expected. But not in a shocking way - in the sense of 'wow, this is a real mini-movie'. You know? I wanted to go deeper. Mostly what I wanted was for people to get it."

As previously reported, Rihanna also revealed that she's unlikely to join Taylor Swift on stage in the future because they're such vastly different artists that it wouldn't make any sense: "I don't think I would. I just don't think it makes sense. I don't think our brands are the same: I don't think they match, I don't think our audiences are the same. In my mind she's a role model, I'm not."

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