I’ve finally figured it out. For months, I’ve been racking my brain as to why Chris Brown’s handlers have been letting him make all the public missteps he’s made since he and Rihanna came to blows in their rented Lamborghini on that fateful night on the eve of last year’s Grammy Awards. If he wasn’t making cringe-inducing public comments on the incident, he was typing childish twitter rants. If not the rants, he was making read-straight-from-the-script, insincere apologies. I thought, his PR team had either quit or they were just plain inept. His latest public comments have finally helped me figure it out … he’s simply been going through his rebellious “boy to man” phase right before our eyes, calling his own ill-advised shots. Here’s what he’s up to now.
Early yesterday, Brown decided to weigh in on the Tiger Woods scandal by saying, “My hat is off to [Tiger Woods] — I support him.” He went on to draw a comparison between himself and Tiger, saying “they both deserve a break!”
The only possible parallels between the two would be, loosely, the “ish” hitting the fan between them and their mates in or near a car and the — career-ending for Chris — image crisis that ensued. I’ll even throw in that they both are talented in their respective fields, but that’s where Chris ends and Tiger begins. Singers come a dime a dozen, but Tiger’s skillset sets him apart from any other person alive. Chris is an incredible dancer and a very good singer, but there are thousands more like him; there will be no dearth of singers if he’s unable to recover. That makes the impact of their sins quite different. Tiger will recover — Chris probably won’t — at least if his latest album sales are any indicator.
That said, there is no reason for him to further drive the stake in his career by publicly siding with a cheater and taking on the “leave us alone” attitude. I can even identify with the sentiment, but he should’ve kept it to himself, because it will only cause more outrage and disdain from his detractors. He still isn’t far enough away from the incident to go spouting off his support for someone else’s wrongdoing, and he actually needs to remain in sorry mode, even if it’s a lie. Neither of them will ever be viewed as victims, so Chris needs to just accept that and give it a rest. He goes on to say:
“Whatever his personal life is — and I think this goes for me and him — his personal life is his personal life,” he told “Mojo in the Morning.” “I do music, I sing songs, like, I’m an entertainer, I’m a performer, but people make mistakes. So my hat is off to him — I support him, I hope he gets back on the field and does his thing, cause he is the best at it.”
Brown is currently serving five years of probation because of his assault on Rihanna … he could at least wait until that ends before he goes creating new enemies in women that don’t like cheaters. Exactly where does he think his record sales were coming from?
–gerald radford
