True, I can't leave him alone,… but there is always something going on with Chris Brown! This time it is not due to a recent tattoo or a brawl in a bar, but it's once again related to the sad story involving Rihanna in 2009.
Brown’s latest album ‘Fortune’, was sold in UK HMV stores with a big advisor yellow sticker on it, that reads: ‘Warning. Do not buy this album. This man beats women.’
Of course, it is not the store that put the stickers on the CDs, but Gigwise is reporting that they were probably placed by some anti-domestic-violence activists…. However, HMV has not commented on the stickers yet.
As much as I condemn Brown’s terrible act, I wonder whether this is the right tactic… Whoever is not aware of the story, was probably living under a rock, so this sticker is not made to inform people but rather to provoke a reaction or kill an eventual buying impulse made at the last minute. It works like a cancer warning on a pack of cigarettes: be careful what you are going to buy is poisonous, or worse, buying it may even be an evil act.
I also wonder whether it is the beginning of a new trend, are these activists going to glue stickers on Ike Turner, Bobby Brown, Yanni, and Axl Rose’s albums? And this is just to name a few wife/girlfriend beaters… And what about all albums produced by girlfriend-killer Phil Spector? This would sound like a totally crazy idea… as crazy as the idea of Rihanna forgiving Chris Brown.