Posts Tagged ‘Chris Brown’

Preview The Deluxe Edition Of Chris Brown’s ‘Graffiti’

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Chris Brown’s “Forever” was one of the best pop songs to emerge out of 2008, despite the flak it received for its Wrigley’s corporate tie-in. And so, setting all scandal aside–if that’s even possible—it’s nice to see (or hear, rather) there are what appear to be two obvious successors to synthy dance number “Forever” on Brown’s otherwise ballad-heavy Graffiti. They come in the forms of “I.Y.A” (or, “In Your Arms”) and “Pass Out.”

Catch a video clip of all the Graffiti Deluxe Edition album snippets (via Amazon France) below. MORE »


Chris Brown Releases New Song, New Video, New Image

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Still giving Chris Brown’s music the benefit of the doubt? Check out his latest single, “Sing Like Me” (above, and also on his website), and also be prepared for even more Chris Brown today - he’s debuting his new video for “The Crawl” on The Wendy Williams Show today (which we now have after the jump). Same day as the premiere of Rihanna’s TV debut of the vid for “Russian Roulette.” What a coincidence. MORE »


Chris Brown Desperately Trying to Be Anyone But Chris Brown Right Now

chrimjperWe’ve got the intergalactic album cover where he’s ripping off Kanye West’s metro (are people still saying metro, or is there some newer, cooler way to describe a fashionable straight man?) schtick. Then he stole his style from Michael Jackson while performing at a concert in New Jersey. Still latching onto the MJ craze right now, Brown is releasing a new song on his album called “Bad.” What, “Thriller” would have been too obvious? MORE »


Happy 40th B-Day, Sesame Street!

In honor of Sesame Street’s 40th Anniversary today, here’s the smooth-jazziest rendition of the Sesame Street theme, as sung by Joshua Radin. Can’t you just imagine Oscar the Grouch wearing a beret sipping an espresso while listening to this play in a piano bar in the West Village? Or maybe that’s just us?


Take a jump to check out the PBS show’s top 5 pop-star appearances: MORE »


Chris Brown Gongs Himself

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Rihanna Takes On The “Spokeswoman For Domestic-Violence Survivors” Role


This morning’s Good Morning America showed the first snippet of Rihanna’s interview with Diane Sawyer, her first sit-down chat with a reporter since the February pre-Grammys incident in which she was assaulted by her then-boyfriend Chris Brown. And it’s a pretty gripping—if somewhat quease-inducing—part of the discussion to lead off with, as Rihanna talks about how she now feels embarrassed to have fallen for Brown, what led her back to him in the immediate aftermath of the incident (complete with statistic-citing), and how she finally decided to break things off with him for good. The part where she says “Eff love” will probably be quoted the most out of context, but the words surrounding it are, I think, the real message that she wants to send out to young women involved in abusive relationships: MORE »


Hands Up If You, Too, Thought That Chris Brown Was Going For An “Alvin & The Chipmunks” Thing With His New Album’s Cover

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Chris Brown Breaks Out His Toybox

chris-brown-i-can-transform-ya-ft-lil-wayne-singleChris Brown’s “I Can Transform Ya” video takes the lessons of this summer’s Michael Bay blockbuster to heart, with people in the video changing into fire trucks (an unintentional homage to the semi-iconic video for “Cherry Pie”?), motorcycles, and sleek cars right before your eyes. (You’re supposed to say “ooh” there.) It’s not a groundbreaking clip by any means, but at least this video flagrantly abuses CGI to come up with something that doesn’t look like bad hotel-room art, right? Progress! Clip after the jump. MORE »


Chris Brown Grabs The Mic

chris brown on cnnChris Brown is doing the first radio interview since his domestic-violence incident with Rihanna in November right now on New York radio station Hot 97, and I have to say that the DJ conducting the interview, Angie Martinez, is pretty no-holds-barred in her questioning, asking the singer about his status as a role model in light of the incident (and about lighter topics like the wedding-borne success of “Forever” over the past few months). Miss Info, who does some work for the station, has been cutting snippets from the chat as it’s been happening, and it’s still going on at the moment. Brown also dropped the redemptive ballad “Crawl” during the interview (hear it here); yesterday he announced dates for an “intimate” club tour, and they’re after the jump. MORE »


Five Possible Conclusions To Draw From The Photos Previewing Chris Brown’s Forthcoming Video

crackinToday Chris Brown posted a collage of photos from the video shoot for his new, aggro single “I Can Transform Ya” to his blog, which is a strange hybrid of news about the image-rehabilitating singer and odd, non-Brown-related celebrity tidbits. (Whatever gets the pageviews, I guess.) After the jump, the preview image in full, and five possible conclusions about the video that can be drawn from it. MORE »