You’ll have heard that Chris Brown simply launched his twelfth solo album, and the critics will not be loving it.
The album, titled Brown, acquired a very abysmal 1.3 out of 10 from Pitchfork, and within the accompanying evaluate, author Alphonse Pierre put it fairly merely: “This album is an actual piece of shit.”
Chris has been within the music trade for over 20 years now, and in that point, he is constructed up an intensive historical past of problematic conduct and abuse allegations, beginning in 2009 when he pleaded responsible to bodily assaulting his then-girlfriend Rihanna, hurting her so badly that she needed to be hospitalized.
Chris’s previous conduct is not one thing he is essentially shied away from in his music, and within the Brown Pitchfork evaluate, Pierre writes that the “soulless, hit-chasing” new album is “bereft of any concepts that don’t should do with its star’s personal victimhood.”
“Even the tracks that appear as if intimate glimpses at his relationships are actually simply him whining in regards to the media,” the evaluate continues. “For years, conventional media has been tiptoeing across the recognition of Chris Brown, and in actuality, that advantages no one however him. The shortage of vital engagement along with his music has allowed him to contextualize his personal redemption with statistics and sob tales… Not each musical legend deserves to be a martyr.”
With Chris being the controversial determine that he’s, the scathing Pitchfork evaluate has caught folks’s consideration. The article presently has over 93,000 likes and 10.4 million views on X alone, and many individuals seem to agree with its sentiments.
Now, it appears Chris has caught wind of the Brown criticism, and he is telling us how he feels about it.
In a reasonably amped-up video posted to his Instagram Story, the 37-year-old started by addressing his devoted fanbase. “Workforce Breezy, I do know folks need me to get on right here and, you realize, say some unhappy shit, however fuck that,” he mentioned. “We kickin’ they ass, goddammit. We ain’t lettin’ up. I’mma preserve my foot on they neck and we ain’t stopping. You heard me? We doing this motherfucker. Tour, extra shit to return. I am not gon’ let you know what’s extra to return, nevertheless it’s coming.”
Chris didn’t explicitly point out the viral evaluate, though he did have some very pointed phrases for his haters. “I don’t give a fuck what these n***as is talkin’ about,” he mentioned. “I do know precisely who my followers is and I do know precisely who’s listening to this album.”
He concluded: “Should you not my fan, I don’t need you to hearken to my shit. Go hearken to motherfuckin’ Zara Larsson or someone. Fuck them.”
Should you’re questioning what our woman Zara has to do with this, she’s lengthy been a vocal critic of Chris’s. Most not too long ago, the Swedish star instructed Cosmopolitan she had his music “blocked” on her playlists. “There are such a lot of artists I’ve blocked on Spotify, and all of them are, like, abusers,” she mentioned throughout an interview in February. “You definitely wouldn’t discover, like, a Chris Brown tune.”
So, it is protected to say that Chris’s Instagram Story has sparked a whole lot of reactions, and with folks calling it a “generational crashout.”
And, as for the Zara call-out, I feel it could have backfired. Followers have began evaluating Chris and Zara’s respective streaming numbers and album critiques, and it is protected to say that Zara is presently popping out on high.
“Belief me Shit Brown….we ARE listening to Zara Larsson,” wrote one person, who identified that Zara presently has extra month-to-month Spotify listeners than Chris.
Proper now, Chris’s album is projected for a No. 5 debut on the Billboard 200, so I suppose somebody is listening. However in the event you do not feel like doing that, you may learn the total Pitchfork evaluate right here. It is likely to be extra pleasing.
Zara has but to reply on to Chris’s video. However we’ll let you realize if she does.
