g189639064, 28 апреля 2013 г., 10:01
Fortune isn't a terrible album - it just feels like a pointless one. (Photo not found) Chris Browns 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. Even Rihanna seems to have forgiven him - controversially, she recruited her ex to appear on a recent remix. If she's let him off the hook, it seems the pop-buying public have done likewise. The tricky question to answer is: why is he enjoying such success? Brown dances like a dream, but on recording he's no firecracker, and neither is he the sharpest operator in pop. Recent hits have tended to be club bangers, like Turn Up the Music; Fortune has just one more of these - Don't Wake Me Up, which sounds like a smash. 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. Elsewhere, Fortune delivers unremarkable mid-tempo RnB. There's the occasional glimpse of something interesting, but most of the time his producers are content to keep things contemporary but colourless. Brown is invariably upstaged by guest rappers like Nas and Wiz Khalifa, and though he receives a writing credit on every track, he has very little to say. In fact, Fortune provides just two insights into the psyche of Christopher Maurice Brown. One is that he especially enjoys a pastime called "sexing"; the other is that he thinks he's rather good at it. "I've got that pillow for you, baby, right here / Can you make it disappear?" he sings on an icky nookie track called 2012. Girls, what do you reckon? Aside from some gag-reflex-inducing lyrics, though, Fortune is never terrible. It just feels cripplingly pointless, a problem highlighted by a song called Don't Judge Me. From Chris Brown, that's a provocative but potentially interesting title. For what, pray tell, does he want to be let off the hook for? And by whom? The answers: being such a player back in the day, and by his new squeeze. (Photo not found) Tracks 1 Turn Up the Music 2 Bassline 3 Till I Die 4 Mirage 5 Don't Judge Me 6 2012 7 Biggest Fan 8 Sweet Love 9 Strip 10 Stuck on Stupid 11 4 Years Old 12 Party Hard / Cadillac (interlude) 13 Don't Wake Me Up 14 Trumpet Lights Release Details Label: RCA Records Date: Jul 02 2012 Country: United Kingdom Format: CD Source: www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/6h5c
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