Line #9 Music/ChrisBrown


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chrisbrown2_8487.jpg]]
2	[floatboxright: Influences:
3	+ Music/MichaelJackson, Music/{{Usher}}, Music/BobbyBrown, Music/RKelly, Music/SamCooke, Music/{{Ginuwine}}, Music/NaughtyByNature, Music/LilWayne, Music/TupacShakur]
4	[floatboxright: Influenced:
5	+ Music/JasonDerulo, Music/AugustAlsina, Creator/ShameikMoore, Music/JustinBieber, Music/AustinMahone, Jacob Latimore, Jay Park, Eric Bellinger, Sevyn Streeter]
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7	Christopher Maurice Brown (born May 5, 1989) is an American singer, rapper, artist, and dancer. He exploded on the music scene when he was just 15 years old, scoring a number-one hit "Run It!" from his first self-titled album and is considered to be one of the singers to claim Music/MichaelJackson's "King of Pop" title. His HipHop-infused R&B style and dance moves made him a perfect teen heartthrob.
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9	In 2009, he was involved in a domestic abuse situation with his then-girlfriend singer Music/{{Rihanna}}. Despite the backlash, he was able to continue his career and he scored a number-one hit on the U.S. R&B charts with ''Deuces'' in 2010 and scored a number one album called ''F.A.M.E.'' in 2011 on the Billboard 200 charts, for which he received a Grammy award win in 2012.
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11	!!Discography/Studio Albums:
12	* ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Chris Brown]]'' (2005)
13	* ''Exclusive'' (2007)
14	* ''Graffiti'' (2009)
15	* ''F.A.M.E.'' (2011)
16	* ''Fortune'' (2012)
17	* ''X'' (2014)
18	* ''Fan of a Fan: The Album'' (2015, collaboration with Tyga)
19	* ''Royalty'' (2015)
20	* ''Heartbreak on a Full Moon'' (2017, double disc album)
21	* ''Indigo'' (2019)
22	* ''Breezy'' (2022)
23	* ''11:11'' (2023)
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25	!!Selected Filmography:
26	* ''Series/TheOC'' (2007) - Will Tutt, 3 episodes
27	* ''Stomp The Yard'' (2007) - Duron Williams
28	* ''This Christmas'' (2007) - "Michael 'Baby' Whitfield"
29	* ''Film/{{Takers}}'' (2010) - Jessie Attica
30	* ''Film/ThinkLikeAMan'' (2012) - Alex
31	* ''Battle of the Year'' (2013) - Rooster
32	* ''Series/BlackIsh'' (2017) - Rich Youngsta, guest
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34	!!The musician showcases examples of:
35	* AutoTune: "Nobody's Business" with Rihanna. "Yeah 3x" uses it as well.
36	* BoastfulRap: "Look At Me Now" brags about how rich and famous his career has made him.
37	* BreakupSong: "Say Goodbye" from his first album and "Deuces" from ''F.A.M.E.'' are his most well known.
38	* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: "Damage" focuses on how a relationship was torn apart. The protagonist slowly [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone begins to realise how much regret they are left with as the damage was done towards their lover.]] One of the lyrics references how the short conversation shouldn't have happened and that they have messed up.
39	%% * CursedWithAwesome: "Lucky Me"
40	* DaddysGirl: His daughter, Royalty. So much so that he named his 2015 album after her.
41	* DarkerAndEdgier: After the domestic abuse incident, he couldn't be marketed as the fresh-faced ChildPopstar he once was. Starting with ''F.A.M.E.'', his music and videos started getting more explicit with frequent cursing and references to drugs, along with him rapping more often. Every album since ''F.A.M.E.'' has had a parental advisory label.
42	* FaceHeelTurn: Musically, he has gone from good boy stuff like "With You" and "Say Goodbye" to bad boy tracks like "Deuces" and "Loyal".
43	* FunWithAcronyms: "F[orgiving].A[ll].M[y].E[nemies]." and "F[ans].A[re].M[y].E[verything]."
44	* GenreShift: His first three albums were firmly in the contemporary R&B/Pop genre; after his domestic abuse incident, ''F.A.M.E.'' and every album since, the music started edging more into the HipHop territory, though he still mostly sings.
45	* HotterAndSexier: From ''F.A.M.E.'' on, his music has gotten more sexually explicit. The first track on the ''Royalty'' album (the album dedicated to his ''daughter'') is an IntercourseWithYou song sampled from Music/MarvinGaye.
46	* IntercourseWithYou: Plenty of them, starting with "Take You Down" off ''Exclusive''. Just on his ''F.A.M.E.'' album alone, there's "No B.S.", "Wet the Bed", and "Beg for It."
47	%% * MustMakeAmends: "Crawl," for example.
48	* RightThroughHisPants: The video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFAmOuQ69Qs&ob=av2n "No Bullshit"]] depicts the girl in the video in BlackBraAndPanties and [[ThreeMinutesOfWrithing writhing about]]. Chris? Shirtless and wearing pants.
49	* RefugeInAudacity: In "I'm Still":
50	-->"You niggas mad cause you fuckin’ with them regular hos and ain’t none better than my Asian.”
51	* PissTakeRap: Inverted. He does rap often. "Look at Me Now" is intended to be a BoastfulRap, but if you compare his verses to his guests - Music/BustaRhymes and Music/LilWayne, it comes across as such.
52	* {{Sampling}}:
53	** "She Ain't You" contains a sample of a sample: The song samples SWV's "Right Here", which itself sampled Music/MichaelJackson's "Human Nature".
54	** "Back to Sleep" samples Music/MarvinGaye's "Sexual Healing".
55	* SelfTitledAlbum: His debut is named after him.
56	* SurrealMusicVideo: [[https://youtu.be/KAfOI37aK4A "Liquor/Zero"]].
57	%% * TakeThatCritics: "Look At Me Now".
58	* TextlessAlbumCover: His 2017 album ''Heartbreak on a Full Moon" is [[https://genius.com/Chris-brown-heartbreak-on-a-full-moon-tracklist-album-art-annotated as one of these]].
59	* TokenBlack: Amongst the cast of ''Series/TheOC''. He was the only black recurring character, possibly only black character but his race never comes up InUniverse.
60	* WolverinePublicity: He has done masses of features with rappers, including Music/BustaRhymes, Music/{{Pitbull}}, Music/{{TI}}, {{Music/Nas}}, Music/NickiMinaj, Music/TPain, Music/FatJoe, Music/{{The Game\|Rapper}} and Music/BigSean. He's also featured on songs by {{Music/Rihanna}}, Music/DavidGuetta, Keri Hilson and {{Music/Brandy}}. In 2015, he had featured on ''10 singles'' and that didn't include ''6 singles'' from 2014.

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