Rated R wasn't what i had in mind with "sappy cathartic ballad"
― some dude, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
mmm the last time i thought "this is career suicide" was when chris brown beat rihanna's face to a pulp so i'm not rushing to make any predictions here
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
i don't really get why anyone thinks this is going to seriously hurt Rihanna. y'all know how many #1s she's had in the past couple years, right?
― some dude, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
because it's going to alienate many longtime fans?
― black Emanuelle did costume design for Troll 2 (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
the success of her music is SO completely divorced from whether people think she's a good or smart person or a role model or whatever
― some dude, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
like this kind of thing would alienate Kelly Clarkson's fanbase, not Rihanna's
yeah her celebrity is going to pull through this fine I think.
― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
they are both going to come out of this with careers booming
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
at the risk of being repetitive:
I had never even heard of him prior to this beatdown thing and this has been such a media feeding-frenzy that of COURSE he is gonna have a comeback. Don't you guys pay any attention at all to how media narratives work? It goes - rise to stardom>>triumph>>fall from grace>>redemption/comeback
― One of the Most High Profile Comedy Directors of the 90s (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, March 6, 2009 12:49 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
just because something happened and someone somewhere predicted it doesn't make it TOTALLY OBVIOUS AND PREDICTABLE
― TERMAINTOR 2 (some dude), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
apparently CB missed out the "redemption" stage of that
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe for him redemption = sulking.
― Nicole, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
shakey that narrative is almost wholly about booze and drugs.
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
like, the fact that you hadn't even heard of Chris Brown before 2009 speaks to how tonedeaf you are to the whole cultural context of this whole thing and that your 'vindicated' accurate prediction was just a blind chicken finding a kernel of corn (xpost)
― TERMAINTOR 2 (some dude), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
corn is delicious
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
he's in it right now, I'd say it probably started with that awful "Man in the Mirror" performance
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
eh I can think of some other non-booze-n-drugs examples (Polanski, Rob Lowe) but you do have the "almost" qualifier in there so yeah okay
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
man i really hope Charlie Sheen sings "Man In The Mirror" on BET in a couple years
― TERMAINTOR 2 (some dude), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
what makes it totally predictable is the amount of money involved. industry wasn't gonna just let a cash-cow like this go down the drain without milking it.
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
ah yes, that massive unstoppable cash cow you hadn't even heard of at that point
― TERMAINTOR 2 (some dude), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
there's lots of cash cows I don't pay attention to
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
for a short while it actually seemed somewhat like the industry was thinking about "replacing" him, if that's possible. they let jason derulo et al out of the gate not too long after the incident, no?
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
i thought it was gonna be trey songz
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
who even upped his game musically!
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
trey songz would have been much better
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
don't think trey songz is willing to be pop enough, god bless him
― illuminati girl (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:46 (twelve years ago) link
trey songz will always be that "singing dude who made douchefaces in that one scarface video where scarface didn't want to get married and poor bun b had to explain everything to the preacher and his fiance" to me
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdX0X490bRwin other news missy kills this, chris not so much
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
yeeeeeeeeeehaw
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Chris-Brown-Angrily-Snatched-Fans-iPhone-Outside-South-Beach-Club-Police-140186213.html
― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
The woman, Christal Spann, and her friends followed Brown and rapper Tyga outside, where she saw him get into his black Bentley, according to a Miami Beach Police report. Spann approached Brown and took a photo with her $500 white iPhone 4S while he was sitting in his car.
Then the surly hip-hop star reached through the window, took her cell phone from her hands, and said, “B**** you ain’t going to put that on no website,” Spann told police.
― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
this fucking guy
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
a few times lately i've gotten annoyed at journalists referring to chris brown as a 'rapper' or 'hip-hop star' and then i remember "look at me now" and feel confused about whether i should still be mad
― some dude, Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
if chris brown is going to clubs and driving himself home, there's still a small chance that he'll drive drunk and kill himself. so not all hope is lost.
― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
"Superstar tennis ball Chris Brown"
― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― some dude, Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
Is this possibly a violation of his probation? It was 5 years, right? I hope so.
― marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
he got away with throwing a chair through a window, so
― da croupier, Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
Chris Brown - "I Threw A Chair Through A Window" (in the style of U2)
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Thursday, 23 February 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
maybe this is some andy kaufman style ish on his part
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 23 February 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:27 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
there's some story in superfreakonomics, which i was reading on teh toilet the other day, where they suggest drunk walking is more likely to get you killed than drunk driving, sadly
― D-40, Thursday, 23 February 2012 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
this fucking guy's comeuppance, when it happens and it WILL happen because he apparently cannot stop himself acting like the worst fucking cunt at all times, will be so sweet to watch
― lex pretend, Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
lex otm
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
― D-40, Thursday, February 23, 2012 4:52 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ha my roommate was listening to the freakonomics podcast last night and they were talking about this. it seems super flimsy to me, also as they pointed out you can't murder one or multiple innocent people if you're drunk walking
― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
that sounds like a challenge
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
off topic guys but freakanomics is utter bullshit dont pay any attention to it plz
― lag∞n, Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:46 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i mean i heard this by accident and it sounded pretty "eh?? eh????" trolly and nonsensical
― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
in an alternate, better world, freakanomics is economics taught by big booty professors in thongs to a Miami bass beat
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
we have some down there in our middle schools i think
― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
yeah they started off by using multiple regression in a absurd way and have since just kinda become promoters of counterintuitive bullshit climate change skeptics etc
― lag∞n, Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Thursday, February 23, 2012 4:33 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah but if chris brown kills somebody ELSE it doesnt really qualify as 'karma' does it?
― D-40, Friday, 24 February 2012 00:10 (twelve years ago) link