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Watch Kelly Clarkson tackle Rihanna's 'Better Have My Money'




Welcome to BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge, a magical place where stars stop by to cover each other's songs. The result: pairings that make perfect sense (like

) and covers that...probably weren't the best idea (Ed Sheeran, we love you,

?).

Kelly Clarkson's new session falls somewhere in the middle. The singer stopped by the Live Lounge this week to take on Rihanna's Better Have My Money, ditching Rihanna's machine-gun delivery for a more soulful take.

And we have a pretty good guess who Clarkson's dedicating this song to.

Clarkson's not the first musician to cover Rihanna at the Live Lounge, from Jessie Ware's take on to Jared Leto belting out Stay with 30 Seconds to Mars: 



The ball's in Rihanna's court now to tackle one of Clarkson's songs — please, please let it be an insane martian dancehall version of Since You Been Gone.

So who did it better? Compare Clarkson's version to Rih Rih's original, more explicit version of

.