Well, it’s one way to get people talking about something other than his alleged assault against Rihanna. E! News reports that beleaguered R&B singer Chris Brown is currently in the studio working on a country song(!) — and Robert Allen, a writer and producer collaborating with him, says Carrie Underwood is a possible duet partner.
"It’s that kind of song," Allen says of the track, called "Trapped in a Dream," "just feeling like you don’t want that dream to go away. Everybody has a dream and you’re in it, but you wake up and you’re like, ‘Oh, my God.’ You feel like you’re still in that dream." Hmm, nightmare?
Considering that Ciara is still defending her choice to include "Turntables," her duet with Brown on the recent Fantasy Ride, it seems unlikely that Underwood, a multiplatinum artist and recent ACM Entertainer of the Year winner, would take the risk of that association as long as the taint of recent events still lays so heavily on Brown.
But you tell us, Music Mixers — is there anything he can do to get back in the public’s good graces and redeem his now-tarnished image? Does going country sound like an inspired leap, or just Bad Idea jeans?
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OMG CARRIE DO NOT DO IT…YOU WILL ALIENATE YOUR SELF FROM THE COUNTRY WROLD!!!
DO NOT DO IT…I LOVE AND SUPPORT YOU IF YOU DID I WOULD NO LONGER BE A FAN!
There goes Carrie’s squeaky clean image.
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this is a lame rumor just like when they were saying rihanna & chris brown were going to duet just after the attack. dont worry even if they ask carrie shes too smart to stoop that low. (hopefully)
Robert Allen’s just trying to get some attention on his song by dropping Carrie’s name as a possibility. It’s annoying to see the blogs play into their hands.
I wouldn’t be surprised if an overture hadn’t even been made yet. But even if it has I don’t see Carrie agreeing to this and would rather her publicist squash this rumor pronto. There’s too much of a risk of blogs like this one making it seem like Carrie’s actually considering this.
BTW Carrie won ACM Entertainer Of The Year, not CMA Entertainer Of The Year.
To answer the question of whether there’s anything Chris Brown can do to redeem himself, for me the answer is no, unless it’s to give up public life and recording and commit the rest of his life to service without trying to get media attention for it.
I totally agree w/ Flutter_Fly on this one, he is dropping Carrie’s name in there to get attention. They prob never even contact her people about this, cause they would shoot them down in a NY minute. There is no way Carrie would ever do a duet with that monster. You can take that to the bank. I hope her PR team is aware of them making that statement and release some sort of statement saying “thanks but no thanks loser”. I believe in second chances, but you gotta admit your mistake and seek the necissary treatment in order to rectify it. Chris Brown is choosing not to do that, he and his people are trying to act like nothing happened. It’s flat out disgusting and I hope his next record tanks.
This is such an obvious PR move on his part. Turning down home country and putting Carrie on the track. Dude, that is not going to help your career.
If i was Carrie, i wouldn’t do the song with him either… nope.. I thought he was going to make a country song about beating his girlfriend…hahah!
First off, the only possible country duet I see as eevn a possibility would be with current Hottie turned Country crooner, Darius Rucker. But considering how squeky clean his image is, I doubt that even Darius would be so bold to risk his current country cred (1st African-American to have 2 country hits back to back in decades!!!) to help Brown out. He has about as much to lose as Ms. Underwood.
There’s really not anything Brown can do right now to try & jump start his haulted career. The only answer is to let time heal the wounds & hopefully his fans will accept him again. As I said in an earlier blog post about hot summer songs, its reallly sad that Chri’s duet with Ciara “Turntables” won’t get any love on the radio these days, cause other than “Love, Sex, Magic” it sounds like the ONLY sure-fire hit Ciara has left on the disc. A few months ago, it woulda been Ciara’s follow-up single…now…maybe JIVE will release it in the Fall. The song is great & worth downloading.
If Carrie does this, her fans will drop her faster than they dropped the Dixie Chicks. How can Brown redeem himself? He can’t. Ever!!!! What’s done is done.
Of course she’s not. Total publicity stunt. This is the girl who rushed to apologize after making a (funny) joke about Matthew McConaghy being shirtless at the last CMA Awards. Whether it’s true to her actual persona or not (and most gossip sites say not), she markets herself with a squeaky clean image, and would never do anything intentional to tarnish that.
everyone should be given a second chance so please everyone stop acting like saints.I say Carrie go for it with Chris.he deserves a second chance.we all make mistakes and learn from them and he will too.we are human after all
I hope that Chris Brown just goes away and that everyone stop giving him a second chance. Once a beater – always a beater. It is disrepectful to women and I won’t buy another record/song that he is in.
There is NO WAY Carrie Underwood would EVER do anything with Chris Brown..I can’t imagine ANY successful female artist doing a duet with him? It would be a career ending mistake!!
A part of me says Go for it Carrie! Chris is a great artist and they would sound amazing together.
But, I worry that people will attack Carrie from all sides if she does. They will claim she is not on Rihanna’s side, etc., which is BS. Clearly, if Carrie did the song, she is not taking sides.
I am mad at Chris still, but I do think everyone deserves a second chance. So if he can redeem himself and show true remorse, I would love to see him make a comeback someday.
But it will take a long time. Anyway, if Carrie does this, she should ask Rihanna first if this is cool with her, as I know carrie likes Rihanna alot too.
I would say go for it Carrie. He has great vocals you should be only with the vocals and your music.
I hear many people say they can’t work with someone like him. If you found out that the man in the office next to yours beat his wife, would you quit your job? You found out your boss did the same, what would you do?
We glorify those who are alcoholics, drug abusers, endanger their babies (Brittany), and do all this other crazy Sh** and then oh he and his girlfriend get out of control in their many fights that they have had and and he is the only evil actor/singer out today. We forgive people for murder and rape!! What is wrong with our society to where we can glorify all this bad stuff, but if it is against a woman, then he must die?