CHRles said:If you guys wanna hear a more serious rip-off just take a listen to the melody for the new Chris Brown song, and compare it to Calvin Haris's excellent "Im Not Alone", which came out a couple of years ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8TPXFoXO5A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJk0fqISic4
Chris Brown's song is alright, but surely doesn't beat Damien Fernandez's "dying" which is the one I use in mixshows.
Maybe now that "Dueces" officially got him back into the game, he could be more successful with his "new sound". I just think it was a bad idea to mess up, then try to do a new sound while most of his fans were still hating him. Slipping "forever" in there was good, but someof the other stuff he was planning on releasing was... I'll just say "not his usual material". Never drastically change your sound during a time when people are not happy with you, especially when you know it was your old sound that was working for you BIG time. That only creates more reasoning for people to reject you (you do something different when people love and adore you, it's normally cool or at least accepted. You do something different when people hate you, they will look down on you even more..). Wait until the heat passes, come back where you left off, then as things cool off and you're regaining acceptance and establishment, start your "risky transitions" into whatever new sound you wish to explore. "Dueces" was the perfect come back song, and it's funny how it was sort of "sneaked in".