When "Chris Brown" opens his new album with “Deuces,” an in your face obvious record about an ex singing phrases like “nothing but a vulture,” and "you regret the day when I find another girl YEAH!", he’s not hiding any bitterness. The poison dart is delivered by Brown with an underlying message as clear as day, it’s one that’s been tormented with for the past few years and supported by Breezy’s defenders.
His fourth studio album “F.A.M.E.”, (Forgiving All My Enemies) his first Number 1 hit album since the troubles a couple of years ago he has endured, Brown is enjoying a hot collection of hit radio singles. Abandoning Jackson circa “Off the Wall” and instead attempting the run on the unapologetic genius of "R. Kelly". F.A.M.E. is nothing short of a great album, and maybe one of his best since "Exclusive" hit stores in 2007.
Contributing to the album to give the young R&B singer some help are some heavy hitters like "Wiz Khalifa", "Justin Bieber", "Timbaland", "Lil Wayne" and more. Mixing true R&B with pop, hip-hop and of course a few club bangers, Chris Brown has put forth a strong effort that he hopes will further propel his comeback. After the crummy third studio album "Graffiti", and the mass exodus of fans due to his woman beating incident, Brown has a lot to prove and with F.A.M.E and from the looks of it, he has certainly taken a step in the right direction.
Chris slips and slides through uptempo dance jams and melodic R&B-tinged grooves as easily as he glides across a dance floor, ending up in what is easily his best album yet. His pop side shines on “Next To You,” a tender duet with fellow pop powerhouse "Justin Bieber", he skips through "Michael Jackson-Off-The-Wall-style" disco on the silky “Say It With Me,” channels pop rival "Justin Timberlake" on bass-heavy banger “Oh My Love,” makes a strong play as "Busta Rhymes" fire rapid-spitting apprentice on “Look At Me Now,” also featuring Lil Wayne, and touches “Forever” type Euro-pop greatness with “Yeah 3x.
Pretty much almost every track on the album has that type of sound that radio Dj's would love to promote, as fans will and have received them very well. Radio singles, videos, and soundtrack type records are all over this record. Not keeping with just a R&B type album, going from that to techno-type records, to highly energized Pop records could prove to work in Brown's favor all over the world as album sales have propelled his album to Number 1.
-Side Note- It would be very interesting to me to see how long he would hold that position on Billboard Charts. I would just have to say in my personal opinion, I love this album. I think that every track on the album is just perfect from Oh My Love, She Ain't You, to Wet The Bed are just examples of some tracks that I can't stop listening to. If you want to hear a great album, and have been starving for one for years like me, this would give you that record fix you have been waiting for. Get the album no matter how you feel about Brown as a person, because its really not about him per-say, its truly about the creative talent you hear on your radio, in your car, on your iPod, or what ever device you have that would keep your ear pleased for some time till that next record comes out.
F.A.M.E. is available to buy on iTunes and all good stores worldwide now.
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