Music

5 classic albums you should also stop listening to if you hate Chris Brown

by Sam Sutherland

August 2, 2012

Yes, fuck Chris Brown. He’s a violent, horrible dude. He shouldn’t be forgiven and his actions shouldn’t be forgotten. No argument.

Chris Brown is also becoming a soft target. He’s unlikable in every other aspect of his life, from Twitter to Good Morning America, and his music is sub-guilty pleasure levels of bad. And so everyone who writes about music, be it in the pages of a printed magazine or on their personal Tumblr, is getting their moment to stand up and let the world know just how much they hate it when men hit women.

I guess we should try to be consistent, so…

The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beyond his history of verbal abuse, John Lennon beat his first wife, Cynthia, and allegedly beat Yoko Ono.

Guns N’ Roses – Appetite for Destruction

Erin Everly, in the inspiration for “Sweet Child o’ Mine,” called her marriage to Axl Rose a “nightmare of domestic violence.” She filed a lawsuit against him in 1994, which was settled out of court for a rumoured sum of one million dollars.

Dr. Dre – The Chronic

Dr. Dre brutally assaulted Dee Barnes in front of a crowd of people, who his bodyguard held back. When she ran into a woman’s bathroom, he followed her in and continued to punch her in the back of the head. He released the critically-acclaimed album The Chronic the next year and was nominated for two Grammy Awards. Eminem jokes about it in “Guilty Conscience.”