Pitchfork and its senior author, Alphonse Pierre, had Team Breezy heated on Tuesday (May 12) following a review of the ‘BROWN’ album. Pierre gave the project a 1.3 rating, calling it “an actual piece of sh*t.” While he hasn’t addressed the viral backlash to the review, Chris Brown finally broke his silence! Tank, whose Team Breezy all the way in which, also threw a lil’ shade at Pitchfork.
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What Did Alphonse Pierre Say About ‘BROWN’ Via Pitchfork?
The query really ought to be…what DIDN’T he say?! Alphonse Pierre held nothing back, selecting to research Chris’ entire history within the music industry quite than simply the album ‘BROWN.’ From the beating of Rihanna in 2009 to Chris Brown’s attempts at public redemption since, it’s all in there. Greater than 2,000 words trashing ‘BROWN’ lower than one week after its release on May 8. The summary line alone, which opens the Pitchfork article, goes HAM. It reads, “Chris Brown’s soulless, hit-chasing recent album doesn’t justify his return to the general public eye.”
Within the copy, Pierre said Brown has positioned himself because the “victim of the media conspiring against him.” Concurrently, Pierre claims the singer uses his fans’ “nostalgia for his youthful innocence” and his “cool…backflips” to persuade them of “his version of history.” The senior author emphasized that Chris has used the “battering of Rihanna” to “give his music an emotional complexity it didn’t have before the incident.” That’s been the case in all his music since 2009, including ‘BROWN,’ Pierre argues. Being a Chris Brown fan become rooting “for a talented Black man to triumph, whatever the truth.”
“It was to view his physical abuse of girls as a rite of passage on the journey to becoming a person,” Alphonse Pierre wrote. Adding, “All the overstuffed albums and Billboard hits he’s racked up since then are tainted with that context. None greater than BROWN, which isn’t romantic or funny or sexy or sultry or dancey or soulful or vulnerable or honest or creative or inspired in anyway. It’s soulless, hit-chasing music with nothing going for it if you happen to aren’t personally invested within the Chris Brown culture wars.”
All that said while also being the primary time Pitchfork has reviewed the singer’s music in not less than 6-7 years? Omitted not less than three projects to land on the concept that “Not every musical legend deserves to be a martyr.” Those are facts that Team Breezy is holding on to and calling out! Meanwhile, Pitchfork has been radio silent on the backlash, while continuing to advertise the article on X with captions like, “This album is an actual piece of shit,” and “Soulless, hit-chasing music with nothing going for it.”
Alphonse Pierre also hasn’t stepped as much as defend the words he wrote. On X, he pushed it out once with the caption, “Went a little bit long on 20 years of Chris Brown and his recent album, ‘Brown.’”
Chris Brown Claps Back At Review With THIS Energy
Before Tuesday was over, Chris Brown broke his silence on what Pierre needed to say. And if anyone was expecting a tragic message from Breezy? Don’t. “F*ck that,” is what the singer said.
“We kicking a*s goddammit. We ain’t letting up, imma keep my foot on their neck and we ain’t stopping,” Chris Brown said, mentioning his and Usher’s upcoming R&B tour and other secret projects. “I don’t give a f*ck what these n*ggas talking about. I do know exactly who my fans is and I do know exactly who hearing this album. Should you not my fan, I don’t want you to take heed to my sh*t.”
He ended his clap back by suggesting that his non-fans take heed to someone like Zara Larsson, a Swedish R&B singer and songwriter.
Tank Seemingly Shades Pitchfork As Web Reacts To Pierre’s Review
Like Chris Brown, Tank had similar energy for Pitchfork and its ‘BROWN’ review. On X, he responded to a tweet asking whether he had cussed the publication out yet for the 1.3 rating. Tank replied, “Pitch who?..” adding laughing emojis.
Fans were expecting him to go off, provided that just last week he heavily defended Chris after a social media user claimed Breezy needed to be challenged, saying “CB is a musical genius if you happen to’ve really followed the music. This style isn’t recent to him it’s only recent to you..lol.”
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