Gunn High School's Student Newspaper
CD Review: Chris Brown
Published on December 14, 2005 in Volume 42, Issue 3

It has been three weeks and Chris Brown’s single “Run It” is still number one on the Top 100 Billboard. Personally, I’m terribly upset. With a new brand of “R&B,” 16-year-old Chris Brown has brought us one of the most annoyingly catchy dance singles ever—”Run It,” and has secured his status as the first male artist ever to get a #1 single out of a debut single. Even complete haters can sing to “Is your man/On the floor/If he ain’t/Then let me know,” without needing to remember where they heard it. Brown’s baby face and soulful voice are both annoying and perplexing. With songs like “Your Man Ain’t Me,” Brown declares that “I know your man ain’t been treating you right/but…your man ain’t me”. Well thanks for that one, Chris Brown. Then there’s “What’s my name?” where he even spells it out for confused listeners, “C to the H to the R-I-S.” As if that isn’t enough to really get us interested, songs like “Poppin” and “Yo (Excuse Me Miss)” try again for the club-like feel but instead both bore listeners and make them uncomfortable when he hits those strangely high notes. The rest of the album fails to deliver what “Run It” promises—undeniably catchy music with an extremely easy-to-pick-up chorus. The rest of these beats are not fly–even avid Enya fans could tell you that this is no R&B.


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