Staff Blog
Chris Brown’s conniption fit
What Tiger Woods has done — make a laughing stock out of his marriage, his squeaky clean image, the idea of upwardly mobile infidelity, an illustrious sporting career — has gone from bad to ridiculous in the weeks since its first gossipy announcement. No doubt about it. He ain’t good and he ain’t smart. But something got me thinking about Woods decision to take a step back from the game he made so powerful, so alive — golf, not sport-fucking. That something is Chris Brown.
How can you live in a world where Tiger Woods is embarrassed (and rightfully so) enough so that he feels he has to leave the sport he’s excelled at and made better and more gigantic in his wake YET Chris Brown gets to punch a woman in the face, bite her ear, Twitter-bitch about the condemnation he’s received (see below) AND continue on blindly and unapologetically with his career, including recording and releasing CDs (Graffiti) AND sell out shows like last night’s gig at Electric Factory? After thinking about this dilemma all weekend I couldn’t even make myself want to see Brown last night, curiosity or not. Today’s report doesn’t help me feel better about the woman beater.
Tiger — all is not necessarily forgiven yet. But use a golf analogy and play through. If Brown doesn’t have to leave, you certainly don’t.
This bit from this morning's NY Daily News' Gatecrasher column further illustrates Brown's boneheadedness:
The scorned singer had a meltdown on Saturday after he visited a Walmart in Wallingford, Conn., that didn't carry his new CD, Graffiti.
"im tired of this s--t. major stores r blackballing my cd. not stockin the shelves and lying to costumers," he ranted on Twitter while at the store. "what the f--- do i gotta do...WTF... yeah i said it and i aint retracting s***. im not biting my tongue about s else... the industry can kiss my a--."
Brown, who supposedly has curbed his emotional tirades since his altercation with Rihanna last February, had visited Walmart after several of his fans used Twitter to inform him that stores were refusing to carry his CD.
"They didn't even have my album in the back," Brown spit of the Walmart. "not on shelves, saw for myself. the manager told me that when there are new releases its mandatory to put em on the shelves.. BUT NO SIGN OF GRAFFITI."
And it looks like Brown will be near tears if he comes looking for his CD in New York City, too: Popular music stores including Colony, Bleeker Music Store and Other Music Incorporated have confirmed they are not selling Brown's album.
A salesperson at Bleeker Music replied to our query with an emphatic "Hell, no."
Although bigger chains in New York City like Kmart and Best Buy do have "Graffiti" in stock, it doesn't seem to be helping sales much: estimates out over the weekend report the album hasn't sold more than 100,000 copies in its first week - a dismal number compared to sales of his second album, "Exclusive," which sold over 295,000.
We wonder how Brown will react to that news.
There is something wrong with that boy. I can’t believe he’s really surprised that a) stores won’t carry his CD and that b) people won’t buy his CD.
The fact that he didn’t go away for a while to deal with his problems and anger management problems shows that his remorse for the beating he gave to his girlfriend was short lived. And that outburst and previous outbursts like saying Rihanna shouldn’t have talked about the abuse (while he talked about it every opportunity he got), he shows himself for what he is an unapologetic, small minded little tyrant. And I don’t buy this excuse people give for him that he’s only a boy. 18 year olds go to the army and fight in wars, this boy beat up a woman and is whining that his CD is not doing well. I agree with the article, he is pretty unapologetic about the wrong he has done and even expects people to support him. I couldn’t believe when he black mouthed Oprah, because she wouldn’t support him. Support him for what? He doesn’t needs support, he needs to be set straightened out.
Just out of curiosity………what does Brown whining about his cd have to do with him not having remorse about beating up his girl friend?
I mean, we are talking apples and oranges here.
Yes, he’s a scum bag, and yes, he’s a whiny kid too.
Who is Chris Brown, and why should we care about him? Generic name, not mainstream. Tiger Woods is a household name.
I read there is a new porno movie in the works: Tiger’s Wood.
Aren’t we a judger of people, don’t we feel good.
I don tink dat wat Tiger did wuz reel smart. I tink dat heez gonna be divorsed heer perrty kwick.
I was at the Chris Brown show on Sunday (for work purposes) and was completely shocked that it was sold out. On top of that, the 70% plus female audience were all dressed like hookers throwing themselves at the stage and screaming like jesus had touched down on the stage. If you can beat up a girl and get this kind of positive attention I really don’t know what to think.