Assim como aqueles. Overall, Fortune further indicates a changing of the guard in urban music, as Chris Brown's feel good songs find his most staunch advocates willing to overlook his lowered standards of musical content. Billboard's Happ likens the album to a "victory lap" for the artist when he adds: "Fortune is a fully adult R&B record that will likely churn out at least two or three more singles to Brown's growing repertoire.". Chris Brown's 'Fortune' Heading for No. With songs like "2012", … It also sounds like it could have been recorded by anyone who doesn't mind Auto-Tune and singing the word "up" 70-odd times in three-and-a-half minutes. If Chris Brown aimed to redeem his string of bad press throughout the past three years, Fortune may not have done the trick. 6. Breezy%20on%20the%20set%20of%20his%20%22Don%27t%20Wake%20Me%20Up%22%20video. Sabrina Antoinette: The album's most sonically adventurous track, "Trumpet Lights," rides a rubbery EDM beat with a hands-in-the-air breakdown sure to get fans jumping. Just autotuned to trash. "Trumpet Lights" is the most adventurous and unique track on the album, with the sounds of Eurodance, Salsa and Dubstep rolled into one of Fortune's best tracks. Chris has a lot of jams, no matter which genre you're interested in - and they are all very well produced, written and performed on Fortune. :: The Los Angeles Times feels Breezy doesn’t take enough chances: “A defiant, brash, glistening recording filled with state-of-the-art sounds and of-the-moment producers and songwriters, the album, while fresh in July 2012, feels stamped with a ‘use by’ date. 1 on Billboard 200. Fortune shows a lot of growth creatively both in and out of the studio. "Sorry boo boo you gets no love, no love / Must be cuckoo got me fucked up fucked up," he sings. With songs like "2012", "Biggest Fan" and "Sweet Love", he sets the tone for the night in romantic, sweet and sometimes super sexual evenings with his Boo. There are only 3 good tracks! Aside from some gag-reflex-inducing lyrics, though, Fortune is never terrible. Chris Brown's Fortune album is destined to be deemed as a Pop confection and a cacophony of sexual lyrics and sounds. Kia Makarechi of the Huffington Post comments on the “juvenile” ring to the lyrics on Brown’s track “2012”: “It’s supposed to be sexy, but it comes across like something you’ll hear in a fitting room at Marshall’s.” Billboard’s Andrew Happ additionally comments on the track “Biggest Fan” as the “ickiest sex jam yet…the opening alone crossing the TMI line.”, STORY: Chris Brown Slams Drake on New Track, Entertainment Weekly gave Fortune a C- on their grading scale. Check out our track-by-track breakdown of Chris Brown's fifth studio album. Fortune is no F.A.M.E — it sounds like it, sure, but doesn’t move Brown to any new ground musically.”, :: New York Daily News compares Brown to Usher: “The closest parallel to Brown’s particular twist would be Usher. Both butch up the star’s dance beats and broaden their sense of pop. ", 13. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Just autotuned to trash. Why is Breezy being so harshed upon? Brown dances like a dream, but on record he's no firecracker, and neither is he the sharpest operator in pop. 5. This is due mostly to Brown’s reflex of curbing his creative impulses at nearly every turn, with a few killer exceptions, and showing a conservatism unbecoming such a self-styled renegade.”, :: The Washington Post agrees: “That the world seems divided into three camps when it comes to Brown — those who will always hate everything he does, those who will always love everything he does, and those who have no idea who he is or what he does — frees him to do pretty much whatever he wants creatively. proved Chris Brown could still be commercially successful despite his increasingly volatile reputation, this year's "Fortune" sees Brown taking something of a victory lap. At Metacritic, the album received an average score of 38, based on 14 reviews. Take it off!" From his pleading guilty to felony assault of singer and former girlfriend Rihanna to the nightclub brawl with Young Money artist Drake, Brown’s personal life has been anything but subtle in the media, and fans and critics alike looked to Fortune as a way to get a glimpse into the mind of the singer. His previous album seems really good compared to this uninspired album which can be easily called - TRASH! The song is accompanied by a short a capella, doo-wop ballad called "Cadillac" in which Brown sings of happiness as he knows it best" "I got a life movin' very fast / Got a girl with a big ol' ass. Not a good song on the album. But, this is entirely incorrect. But Brown’s does so with far better material.”, :: Boston.com thinks Fortune is rather poor: “When Brown opens up, he’s the best version of himself. His last album was very annoying in this respect because it was extremely good. What's this? If 2011's "F.A.M.E." ), needless to say - I was wrong. If she’s let him off the hook, it seems the pop-buying public have done likewise. Fortune follows the general strategy of Usher’s just-released Looking 4 Myself. Never before has Brown sounded so carelessly graphic, like a high school football quarterback who dates the cheerleading captain and spills her intimate secrets to his teammates in the locker room.”, :: We’ll end on the following, from the Chicago Sun Times: “You’re not likely to hear more soulless, contrived pop product all year.”. Alguém já comprou um produto que te atraiu por um comercial onde apenas as qualidades eram ressaltadas? After a slight delay, controversial crooner Chris Brown‘s fifth album Fortune is finally out today. Chris Brown provides an appealingly maximalist view of the world...that is, provided the drugs have kicked in. Could be decent if he did not overuse the autotune feature. But while the LP is currently #1 on iTunes, critics, for the most part, aren’t exactly begging to, ahem, turn up the music this time around. left off stylistically by bouncing between hip-hop ("Bassline," "TIll I Die") and EDM-influenced dance pop ("Turn Up The Music," "Don't Wake Me Up"), with a couple pure pop moments ("Party Hard / Cadillac," "4 Years Old") that helped "F.A.M.E." (RCA) Hermione Hoby. It is a surefire hit for #TeamBreezy and should win over new fans and people interested in R&B, Pop or Dubstep. Review: Chris Brown's "Fortune" By Jon Godfrey July 10, 2012 12:45. There's the occasional glimpse of something interesting, but most of the time his producers are content to keep things contemporary but colourless. "Turn Up The Music": One of Brown's most infectious (and innocuous) singles to date, "Turn Up The Music" sets the tone for the album's remaining 13 cuts right away -- who needs stress when there's hot beats? EMAIL ME. "Party Hard / Cadillac," feat. There are only 3 good tracks! Chris Brown provides an appealingly maximalist view of the world...that is, provided the drugs have kicked in. The fifth album for the R&B singer features guest appearances from Sabrina Antoinette, Big Sean, Nas, Kevin McCall, Sevyn, and Wiz Khalifa. "Bassline" is an exemplary example of a real music artist using dubstep the correct way - in which many Pop artists have simply jumped onto a dubstep track to try and be on the current trend. If any non-single here is destined to break out among the hip-hop circuit, this is it. Find out more about our use of this data. Let us know below, or by hitting us up on Facebook and Twitter! Extremely boring and generic. Cryptically referred by Brown as his "last" album at Sunday's 2012 BET Awards, "Fortune" picks up where "F.A.M.E." After a slight delay, controversial crooner Chris Brown‘s fifth album Fortune is finally out today. Chris Brown’s last album, 2011's F.A.M.E., debuted at the top of the US chart.This one, Fortune, has already spawned a UK number one single called Turn Up the Music. Available for everyone, funded by readers. 14 Its first of four singles, “Turn Up the Music,” peaked at number 10 on Billboard’s Hot 100. After hearing the 5 singles realeased from Fortune, I was thinking it's gonna be good but nowhere near good as the last album (F.A.M.E. CLR [rating:2] Let’s get this over with: Chris Brown is not a nice man. team rushed to salvage his tarnished image, hoping to recast him as the jiggy-dancing, dream-date teen star he used to be. Extremely boring and generic. This album is so Chris Brown. There may be spilled drinks, but no broken hearts when Brown sings "She's such a rock n roller but exotic / She's the life of my party." You can add or edit information about Fortune at musicbrainz.org . 88691-96055-2; CD). A daily briefing on what matters in the music industry, Red Velvet's Irene Apologizes After Verbally Attacking Fashion Editor | Billboard News, Aaliyah Book 'Baby Girl: Better Known As Aaliyah' Dropping Next Year | Billboard News, Latin Songs Born During Coronavirus Quarantine (Updating), Inside Joe Biden's Targeted Music Campaign to Rally the Latino Vote, 2020 Billboard Latin Music Awards: The Most Memorable Moments | Billboard News. Writes Kyle Anderson: “[The album] furthers the uncomfortable and frustrating disconnect between Brown’s hothead personal life and his oddly edgeless musical persona…What’s worse, the album doesn’t resolve.”, While critics mostly remain unimpressed with the material on the album, many are wary of the persona Brown portrays throughout many of the tracks. was Chris Brown 's first album to debut at number one on the Billboard 200. "Don't Judge Me": Intended as a "take me as I am" ballad to potential paramours, "Don't Judge Me" doubles as a metaphor for Brown's current PR strategy, which has seen him avoid interviews ever since a "Good Morning America" interview the day of "F.A.M.E. I wouldn’t want to know him. Chris Brown's Fortune album is destined to be deemed as a Pop confection and a cacophony of sexual lyrics and sounds. The tricky question to answer is: why is he enjoying such success? "Stuck On Stupid": The pop portion of "Fortune" kicks off in full gear with this ballad, in which Brown compares his crush to going crazy ("You got me stuck on stupid / Look what you do to me.") While there's nothing wrong with a little raunch, it's hard not to get chills of another kind when Brown sings lyrics like, "You scream / I need / To pull your body closer / let me sex you babe / Girl you better not change your mind.". Find out more about our use of this data, and also our policy on profanity. VIDEO: Kanye West, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Chris Brown Rock the Show at 2012 BET Awards, Sarah Godfrey of the Washington Post says: “Fortune is no F.A.M.E.—it sounds like it, sure, but doesn’t move Brown to any new ground musically.”, Lyrically, many of the songs on the 14-track album have not been received in a favorable light.
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