The tricky question to answer is: why is he enjoying such success? Brown dances like a dream, but on record he’s no firecracker, and neither is he the sharpest operator in pop. Recent hits have tended to be club bangers, like Turn Up the Music; but Fortune has just one more of theseDon’t Wake Me Up, which sounds like a smash. It also sounds like it could have been recorded by anyone who doesn’t mind Auto-Tune and singing the word “up” 70-odd times in three-and-a-half minutes.
Elsewhere, Fortune delivers unremarkable mid-tempo RnB. There’s the occasional glimpse of something interesting, but most of the time his producers are content to keep things contemporary but colourless. Brown is invariably upstaged by guest rappers like Nas and Wiz Khalifa, and though he receives a writing credit on every track, he has very little to say.
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