30 Day Music Challenge: Day 30 - Your Favorite Song From This Time Last Year

This song was EVERYTHING this time last year. It never got old for some reason. In fact, I'm listening to it right now and getting that old feeling back!! I LOVE CHRIS BROWN!!



So that concludes my 30 day music challenge and I actually finished one!!! So proud of myself. How are you guys doing on your reading challenges? I've been paying attention....I know some of you are behind lol.

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Music Review: Chris Brown's F.A.M.E.

As I stated in yesterday's post, I am a Chris Brown fan. A LOYAL one. I don't care about his antics. I just care about his talent. I was excited about this album from the time I heard No Bull**** early last summer. His last CD came out in the midst of the Rihanna drama and to be honest....Graffiti was a horrible bunch of mess that was quickly put together and thrown out to the public just not that great. However F.A.M.E. is very much redemption from Graffiti and is reminiscent of the reason why we fell in love with Chris Brown in the first place.

I have played the CD in its entirety about 10 times since yesterday afternoon. It is THAT good to me and I don't get down with a lot of pop sounding R&B. My favorite song of the album has to be Up To You. It is straight R&B crooning. This song will put Trey Songz to bed for a little while. He also gave a musical tribute to Michael Jackson, who is one of his inspirations, on She Ain't You. This song samples Jackson's Human Nature in a very tasteful way. For all of you who want a song that is great for lovemaking, Wet The Bed is the song for you. It features Ludacris and doesn't disappoint when to comes to setting the mood. He also features Justin Bieber in Next To You. In my opinion, this exposes little Justin for how much he CAN'T sing....but you didn't hear that from me. All in all, I'll give it 4.5 stars!

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Say It Ain't So, Chris Brown!

I got up this morning with the anticipation of buying Chris Brown's new album. I know, I know. How can I still want to support Chris Brown? I know the facts. He's abusive to women. I saw Rihanna's face like everyone else did. Here is my position: I am a supporter of his music, not the things he does in his personal life. I can separate the two. For some reason it is very hard for a celebrity to be great and NOT have personal issues. We celebrate Charlie Sheen's meltdown. If I see another "winning" reference, I will probably scream. Black people (for some reason unknown to me) LOVE Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka.....and those negroes are running prostitution rings out of their mama's house!!! So with a straight face I can say that I am a proud member of #teambreezy. I think it may be about that time to let some of this madness go when it comes to the Rihanna situation. I know she is the victim and they get treated much differently, but she is relatively unharmed by it. She gets to go about her own way and her career flourishes, while Breezy get kicked in the nuts.

However.....I woke up to his Good Morning America temper tantrum. *sighs* Say it ain't so, Breezy!! That lost him about 300 cool points with me. I feel his pain, but a grown man shouldn't act like that. Especially one who prides himself on finishing AN ANGER MANAGEMENT COURSE!!!! Where are the PR people? Where is his team who trains him on how to deal with this stuff? They are going to ask him these questions. EVERY TIME. Why? Because he beat the dog shit out of Rihanna (for lack of a better term). He is going to be paying for that forever in mainstream media. Handling it with grace is what I want to see. For now though, I'm going to open up my iTunes, purchase F.A.M.E., and get my jam on. Why? I just love Chris Brown. Drama sells.....*shrugs*

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The Chris Brown/Rihanna Incident

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up." - James Baldwin

So since February 8, the brutal fight between Chris Brown and Rihanna has been on everyone's news and entertainment channels. Everyone knows all of the details that the police know...hell even things that haven't been officially reported make their way into the gossip rags. Honestly at this point, I am kinda tired of hearing about it because it seems that the media has taken it a little too far in their coverage of the situation. But here's my two cents anyway.

The night of the Grammy's - when the shit hit the fan - my mother called me on the phone asking me if I had heard about. She knows that whenever she hears an entertainment rumor that I am immediately going to do an extensive internet search for the answer. Me and my boyfriend were looking it up and lo and behold! There it was. I must admit for the first 72 hours or so I prayed that this was something that the media beefed up too much. I hoped in my heart of hearts that it wasn't true. So after he apologized, I thought "maybe it wasn't as bad as the reports said....you know how the media overdoes things." So then I saw the pictures of her face and my next thought was, "Chris Brown is kinda cute so I hope he is already practicing how not to drop the soap in jail."

I'm sorry....that was kind of mean. But seriously I don't feel like there is ever a situation where people in relationships should ever be beating up on each other. In my opinion, if the relationship has gotten to the point where you have to put your hands on your significant other to get your point across....the moment where the relationship should have ended passed a minute before you took the first swing.

I feel sorry for the both of them. Both of their careers are essentially over....at least for the near future. There is so much talk about Rihanna losing the support of young girls everywhere because she is supposed to be such a strong woman and was marketed as such. That is so sad. Being marketed as a "strong woman" and being such are two very different animals. Doesn't Beyonce' have an alter ego to help her deal with celebrity craziness? Maybe that was Rihanna's strong force. People everywhere are mad at her for reconciling with Chris Brown and are trashing her CDs and are making her out to be a villain in her own right. I can admit that I was upset myself, but i have come to the conclusion that most people haven't yet. Rihanna is going through a very personal, private issue in a VERY public way. Everyone knows someone who is in relationship that is toxic. It may be your sister, mother, best friend, aunt or whoever. No matter what happens you let that person know that you are there for them no matter what. You may not agree with their choices but you always let them know that they have an ally in you. Turning our back on her isolates her more into what could be a possibly dangerous situation for her. Think about it. Pray for her....then get back to your life and let them handle it.

I hope he is sorry and never does it again. Studies may tell a different story....but I am always willing to be proved wrong. What about you?

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