CHRIS BROWN

Had to check whether I was misremembering him rhyming 'habit' w/ 'Roger Rabbit' in "Get Like Me" but I guess his buddies are more Cool World.

http://api.ning.com/files/tNiUY-YUqL3RHDS1XkMLLJoqWi3piWI70Z7zDr9660Sar79l9jC53NctO7dEE9acsMMzvR887yqKh92zbScWXDoB87tF4rei/WFRR_0864.jpg

k3v u are such an internet gangster

if i still had that camron\m/.gif i'd post it right here

http://www.singingfool.com/photos/238/009999_75.jpg

because Beyonce did the cyborg hand thing already a year ago and it's like the 80th most WTF thing about that cover?

― the tuppence takes manhattan (some dude), Tuesday, November 3, 2009 12:50 PM Bookmark

same cyborg hand she used to brutalize young hove?

oh i thought you just meant it was WTF on aesthetic terms. i dunno, i hate dude and think about what he did every time his stupid song comes on the radio, but i just don't see a song titled "crawl" or him w/ a metal hand on a record cover and instantly come up with some weird mental association with him hitting rihanna like you guys.

neither do i - though "i can transform ya" walked into it rather - but it's all rather unrepentantly aggressive

also i'm o_0 at how the expected laying-low period after an incident like this is no longer, like, 1-2 years, but...a few months.

except for the fitted girl pants (xpost)

honestly i'm just relieved that comeback duet Polow was trumpeting mere weeks later never materialized

http://i35.tinypic.com/28iw8br.jpg

lol

It's like he's daring the people that would normally buy his CDs with this.

i actually see it with those boots on the orig cover anyway, everytime my eyes focus on a different part of the pic i'm like wtf? and have to check

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_N2jvyLc6w

havin crazy impure thoughts tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2znooR9ctk

cassie still has that haircut apparently

his interview on 106 and park was deplorable; kept going on about how "it happened and i have to take responsibility for it" with no acknowledgment of what "it" was. "I know I am what the public makes me." Ugh. Just a bass-ackwards kid running in circles, unable to make any sense of what he's doing or come to terms with how to change.

yeah...at this point i kinda want him to keep giving these half-assed interviews full of unconsidered comments until he gets enough rope to slip up and say something really fucked up that people can't look past.

Having him do roadside cleanup was a bad call; judge should've given him 2000 hours at a halfway home for victims of abuse. He really doesn't seem to understand what's happened except specifically in terms of how it affects him and his entourage. It's mystifying.

The Lex writes for the Guardian:

Rihanna's leadership on domestic abuse

loool, nice dig @ la roux!

rihanna in the guardian was real inspirational:

"A whole thing happened overnight this year," she says, "the night before the biggest performance of my career, as well as 10 days before I became 21. It was a turning point. It was the end of an incredible year, an incredible album [Good Girl Gone Bad], the beginning of a new era, and it just felt like it was a wake-up call for me, and it had to happen. As bad and as terrible as it was, there's so much great that came out of that situation." I must look surprised, but she continues. "Even for him [I assume she means Chris Brown], like, he knows now that he's never going to do that again. And now, young girls also, they learn from it, and I really hope young men can learn from it. Even more than the girls, the men really need to learn from it. Because everyone's focusing on the women, but the problem isn't the women."

Rihanna spoke about the attack recently in an interview on US TV, discussing the fact that Brown was "definitely my first big love", explaining that she briefly reconciled with him in the weeks after the assault, and then decided her actions were setting a bad example for young girls. "I realised that my selfish decision for love could result in some girl getting killed," she said. "I could not be easy with that part. I couldn't be held responsible for telling them, go back. Even if Chris never hit me again, who's to say that [their abusers] won't kill these girls?"

It's completely my fault for stooping to reading it, but MY GOD the comment section.

Beat me once, shame on you.

Beat me twice, shame on me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qjKoNof-lY

that's awesome, wish I could dl it

ive never used this but here's a supposed youtube-to-mp3 converter

I've used those before, sound quality sucks unfortunately

loool i forgot to post the site, here it is if you want it: http://dirpy.com/

Chris Brown's career: still going

haha

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10263828.stm

nice

so the crying breakdown on mtv - sorry if there's another thread where this is being discussed, didn't see anything in new answers - anyway, people who come w/the "publicity stunt!" angle: what the hell is wrong w/such people is my question

it was on bet fyi

i don't believe for a second that chris brown would be a good enough actor to pull that off, but the whole thing is still pretty disgusting

mostly because if this is his show of "remorse" or his realization of his sins, he's a bigger dickhead than we previously thought

yeah basically fuck chris brown for all time

nvr frgt:

http://gossiponthis.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/VIBE-Chris_Brown_relaunch_issue.jpg

so glad this guy's career is "over" lol

oddly I only caught like the last minute or so of his tribute and was like "wtf is going on, he isn't even singing!"

I have absolutely zero doubt that it was a moment of genuine emotion that is rapidly being spun into a publicity stunt.

haha same here xpost

I don't think it has anything to do with expressing remorse - I grew up in a house with a dude who abused women - agree "fuck Chris Brown" but on the basis of what I experienced personally growing up & what I later learned when I went into the psych biz, the shame & guilt these guys experience (nb: the presence of shame & guilt doesn't mean "therefore you have to give them a break, look how bad they feel") is some take-total-possession-of-your-being stuff - this is largely, make no mistake, a function of narcissism, but what that means is that a big old crying breakdown is the opposite of acting for these guys, kinda

fact is that he tried to be part of the MJ tribute on the same awards show a year ago, as part of his initial damage control/career revival and was rebuffed, and it's pretty impossible for him to pick a song like "Man In The Mirror" and for it to not feel like a big deliberate statement. so even if the emotions were real, he's acted like too much of a petulant, unrepentant child who doesn't see what the big deal is about what he did in the past year and a half for me to feel anything for him. it's like yeah, look at the man in the mirror, Chris, he's a talentless dipshit.

I don't think "he is acting" and "he is faking it" are equivalent statements.

Because yeah, as some dude points out picking "Man in the Mirror" as the focal point of your tribute after having the year he's had is saying WAAAAAAY more about Chris Brown than it is about Michael Jackson, and what's it's saying is "I am using a tribute that is supposed to be about a dead legend to tell everyone that I'm really sorry and not a petulant self-absorbed brat who wants everything to be in service of me."

The tears, I'm sure, were completely genuine, but they also feed directly into that self-involved narrative.

The tears, I'm sure, were completely genuine, but they also feed directly into that self-involved narrative.

Yes! this is true. but I mean, that doesn't make the pain from which they spring any less real/felt. I don't know I mean obv. I'm too close to some of this stuff to really be open to probably colder/more realistic readings but when I watch that clip of dude unable to sing I think "wow, it may be that you deserve to suffer, CB, but you're for sure getting the full measure"

At any rate, if CB really wanted to do a Jackson tribute he should have just danced and not tried to sing any ballads whatsoever since he can't really sing.