Now I’m all for forgive and forget. I can’t even remember what I’m mad about half the time. But it’s really hard to forgive someone who won’t even say what they’ve done wrong in the first place. Are they even sorry or is it just to calm troubled waters?
This is where Chris Brown enters. I’ve always like the young man. He’s an adorable, seemingly clean cut kid who can sing and dance his behind off, and really appeared to have his -ish together. So when the whole fight (can you even call it a fight?) story broke, I couldn’t really comprehend that it was the same young man.
Fast forward a few months into the future as Chris Brown sits between his PR reps, OOPS, I mean mother and lawyer, in front of Larry King in all this powder blue looking like he just came off the geek assembling line. I suppose that I, like so many others, expected a heartfelt and honest interview about the altercation. What were we given instead? A bunch of “umms and likes” and whole lot of nothing.
As I watched the interview I couldn’t help but wonder did he mean anything he said or was he simply reciting a poorly written script.
A few things Chris said and did made me think he didn’t mean one word of his apology. Let me know if you picked up on it:
“Possibly the worse period…”- WHAT?!?! Let me have the sort of status, fame, and backing Chris Brown had, and then have them snatched away for something so stupid! I would be on Larry King crying my eyes out. Possibly.
He doesn’t remember doing it- Hmmm, you don’t remember doing it, but you apologize for it? Whose the bigger dummy, us or Chris? Even Larry King was taken aback by his response. A bet Larry was thinking, “kid you’re an idiot”. I know I was.
Apologies, apologies– “I apologize to my fans”. Chris, please, who do you think you’re fooling? You’re apologizing for all the booty you’ll be missing as you pick up garbage off the freeway.
Questions with no answers- Am I the only person who caught that Brown didn’t answer not one single question that had to do with the incident? And when he did, he delivered the worst lines ever! It’s amazing he “respects” Rihanna’s privacy now but wasn’t too upright when he put those horns on her head (like her forehead needed any help in the first place).
The look- If looks could kill, Larry King would be dead. Chris was burning a hole through him like he wanted to add Larry to his list of K.O.’s.
Romeo and Juliet- Last time I checked, Romeo did not WHOMP! on Juliet.
Interview Grade- F. He can play like he meant it, but I think we all know what’s what. He’s officially in the same category as Ike and Bobby. Chris, you can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. NEXT!
Pics of the couple when they were a Hollywood fairytale (and the aftermath):
VIDEO: The Full Chris Brown Interview On Larry King
