![]() This is a man who has demonstrated a pattern of abusive behaviour toward women and a pattern of violent behaviour in general for a decade, been dragged into court and rehab facilities and prison again and again because of those behaviours, and yet continues to get a free ride from the music industry. “The good people of the Canadian government,” as he termed our domestic immigration officials in a swiftly deleted Tweet back in February 2015 - when the oft-arrested singer’s “criminal inadmissibility” forced the last-minute cancellation of gigs at Montreal’s Bell Centre and Toronto’s Air Canada Centre - have derailed his last couple of attempts to perform in our town, thus sparing this music critic the discomfort of pretending to be an objective observer at shows he would have approached with an insurmountably bilious level of bias.Īnyone who has kept half an eye on the entertainment media since Brown beat the living crap out of - and hospitalized - his then-girlfriend Rihanna on the eve of the Grammys in February 2009 knows why. and Australia, for the record - my “no Chris Brown, ever” policy. Brown is occasionally, forcibly thrust in front of me in the course of doing my job (often on the Grammy Awards, which enrages me even more, as I shall explain in a moment), but I take solace in the fact that Canada, in the institutional sense, seems to share - along with the governments of the U.K. To be perfectly honest, I haven’t listened to a note of it in almost 10 years. Two Fridays ago, as occasionally happens, a new release from Chris Brown landed in my inbox.įew things have the capacity to enrage me more and that’s not because I harbour any great personal distaste for the music made by the 29-year-old American R&B star. ![]()
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