Chris Brown "Glow In The Dark"
It’s useless trying to ignore the fact that Chris Brown’s “Glow In The Dark” is nearly a note-for-note, melody-for-melody re-imagining of Prince’s “Purple Rain”, but blatant song-jacking aside, it represents Reason #432 why the young superstar is outdoing Usher these days (And to think, Chris Brown basically started off by imitating the “Love In This Club” singer).
While Ursh bores us to tears with the bachelor-retiring, “grown and sexy” dribble of his latest album, Chris Brown is finally coming into his long-anticipated “sexual freak” era with this newest leak. Over the track’s “Purple”-ly mix of ominous keyboard chords, electric guitar whines and neck-snapping drum beats, we get to live vicariously through a thankfully un-vocodered Brown invading some girl’s sugar walls for the first time: “Hey there it is/ I can feel your legs trembling/ You feel the sweat dripping from my chest/ And you’re like ‘Oh oh oh/ Baby don’t stop’”. It’s so provocative you almost feel like a dirty pervert for listening to it all the way through.
As one of his better records, it’s sad that it might not ever make it to an official CB album; that is, unless Prince and his ever-busy fleet of lawyers decide to let this one past.
DL: “Glow In The Dark” (YFH)
Wow, I was pleasantly surprised, and I could definitely see the “Purple Rain” influence on this song. I still prefer Chris’ when he’s not singing ballads, but “Glow In The Dark” is probably the first one I tolerated enough to listen to beyond the first verse. Thanks for sharing.