Chris Brown Is Horny and I Am Disturbed

February 14, 2011 5:00 pm     Posted in Buzz, Entertainment  Lauren - University of Michigan g+ page


By Lauren

I’m going to start this post off by saying that I’m lame. And I didn’t need my friend to tell me that, “Lauren your middle name should be lame-ass-punk,” to realize that. On Saturday night, while my friends went out and got their drink on until 4am, I sat at home with a bag of Smart Pop and SNL. I can’t tell you the last time I was actually home on a Saturday night to catch an episode of SNL, but knowing that Chris Brown was going to be on, I just had to see it.

Yeah, SNL was very strategic in booking Mr. Controversy, hoping people would tune in to see how it would all go down, and they succeeded. I mean, they at least got one new viewer this week.

And at first it was good. I can’t deny that Yeah x3 is a catchy song and that Chris Brown is a talented performer. I pushed my guilty feelings aside as I danced to the kitchen to refill my glass of Diet Coke. I let myself forget about his scandal and just enjoy him for the pop star that he is.

And then I saw his second performance of the evening. Brown chose to sing his latest song, No BS, and to say it made me uncomfortable is like saying walking in on my parents having sex makes me uncomfortable. [Shudder.]

Watch for yourself:

The lyrics graphic and raunchy (“You know I’m horny/so why don’t you come over to my place/and put a smile on my face”), the kind of things you whisper into a lover’s ear (in private) or drunkenly sext them. Not the kind of thing you sing…on a television show….in front of millions of people.

Before I changed the channel mid-song to something that didn’t make me want to wash out my brain with soap, I couldn’t help but think back to the controversy surrounding Rihanna’s newest song, S&M, and the double standard that exists in music. Chris Brown can sing about “keeping it in all night” on network television, but Rihanna’s getting censored and banned around the world for singing about consensual sex?

I’m disgusted. And not just by the thought of Chris Brown making a girl “take it over and over again.”  Can we create some standards here and hold everyone to them, regardless of gender?

10 Comments on "Chris Brown Is Horny and I Am Disturbed"

  1. Lola says:
    Mon, 14th Feb 20117:11 pm 

    I disagree, I dont think you can compare the two. Rihanna's song/video has been banned from being played before a certain time for openly declaring she not only likes the "SMELL of sex in the air" (whatever that means) but also that she loves to be whipped and beaten during sex, putting across the message that sadomasochism is the norm! There's a huge difference. Most of Rihannas fans are impressionable young girls who want to be JUST like her so the ban is understandable and I dont know about you but i'd rather not have my 10 year old Rihanna fan sister walking around singing about chains and whips exciting her. "Saturday NIGHT Live" on the other hand, as the name obviously states is an evening show so i'm pretty certain the majority of the audience in studio and at home were of appropriate age to listen to Chris sing "No BS". Why not just turn over or off if you felt uneasy listening?

  2. Dixon says:
    Tue, 15th Feb 201110:39 am 

    The S&M is a ripoff of David Lachapelle paintings, and he is suing her.

    Pushing aside that, No BS was #1 on urban radio for two weeks. It made sense to sing it. It was 12:45 in the AM. He said horny, but is that worse than any lyric on S&M? Watch her video. It’s graphic.

    But I do get your point. Double Standards do exist. Chris’ video for No BS was graphic too, if you see the original on YouTube. But he edited it to so it could be played on MtV channels & BET.

    It’s a sex song. No R&B singer can go anywhere without singing at least on sex song.

    He rocked SNL. We got to be honest. This young guy is more talented than… Well, her. Sue me. He also needs to teach Usher how to sing & dance without dying from losing his breath lol. Poor Usher.

    Riri, did u hear her on the Grammys? Eek.

  3. JPr says:
    Tue, 15th Feb 201112:48 pm 

    this is a terrible blog post.. sex sells.. good song.. "take you down" was probably worse and at least he promoted safe sex "reach up in that drawer where them condoms is" LOL

  4. Dixon says:
    Tue, 15th Feb 20112:57 pm 

    I don’t think this was a terrible blog post.
    That safe sex comment was funny! I don’t remember hearing a song with the word condom in it. Lol.

    He sang it just like the recording. That’s rare for pop singers.

  5. Marie says:
    Tue, 15th Feb 20115:35 pm 

    I totally agree! I found the lyrics really gross and totally unsexy. Shows how crass and unimaginative the mind of a juvenile is – both men and women. It's a shame cuz I also enjoyed his dancing and talent on the first song. Then he has to go and ruin it. Any dude who thinks it's a turn on talking/singing about leaving their weiner inside, blah-blah, is a fuggin idiot. Or prefers dumb women.

  6. Ivy says:
    Tue, 15th Feb 20118:12 pm 

    Those were photographs not paintings, btw

  7. @CBxPLAINSitALL says:
    Thu, 17th Feb 201111:16 pm 

    Oh PLEASE! This song was released off his mixtape long ago, and IF you are just now staying at home with your "bag of Smart Pop and SNL" to discover these lyrics and then poorly write this blog… you were better off getting alcohol poisoning and blacking out to death.

    Chris Brown is a talented young man making more age-appropriate music. It's an R&B song (1). It's SNL (2) for goodness sake! The "feely-uppy" cooking skit was more graphic and raunchy than any lyric you looked up to post here.

    P.S. Having "University of Michigan" by your name made me believe you'd have something knowledgeable to say, but… nevermind… I have no more "nice" things to say.
    "I'm done!" *in Chris Brown voice*

  8. Accountability says:
    Sun, 20th Feb 20117:35 pm 

    I did "enjoy" Yeah 3x, not bad choreography, the jacket looked a little heavy. I really was embarrassed when his second song came on, I was watching SNL with my dad and that was pretty unsettling when he opened with "I'm horny…", I didn't think twice and changed the channel before he finished the next rhyme. Yes RNB may have a lot of sexual undertones, but you should know your audience when you're performing on television?

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