Fortune.
| Chris Brown
Fortune.
Fortune is the fifth studio album by American singer Chris Brown. The album is Brown's first release through RCA Records, following the disbandment of Jive Records in October 2011. As the executive producer of the album, Brown collaborated with several record producers. The album also features several guest appearances, including Big Sean, Wiz Khalifa, Nas, Kevin McCall, Sevyn and Sabrina Antoinette. Originally scheduled for release six months after the release of his fourth studio album F.A.M.E. (2011), Fortune received several push backs. - Wikipedia
Critic Reviews
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Rolling Stone
deep listening means getting cozy with a guy so reviled mosquitoes won’t bite him
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Sputnik Music
Fortune is a waste of the disc is printed on.
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BBC
Aside from some gag-reflex-inducing lyrics, though, Fortune is never terrible. It just feels cripplingly pointless.
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TIME
Spend your money on something else, something better, something by someone who hasn’t punched Rihanna in the face, which, as far as we know, is anyone else.
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Popcrush
Chris Brown's 'Fortunate' has plenty of highs and lows, but it's a solid effort that should satisfy his Team Breezy family.
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All Music
From a creative standpoint, this is more a leap than a step backward.
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NY Daily News
While he originally conceived "Fortune" as an extension of "Fame," the new album turns out to be a more exciting and varied work.
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Pop Matters
Fortune is another overload of poor decisions just as Brown's previous two albums have been.
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HipHop DX
Fortune further indicates a changing of the guard in urban music, as Chris Brown’s feel-good songs find his most staunch advocates willing to overlook his lowered standards of musical content.
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The Guardian
Even an extraordinarily great album might not eclipse Brown's past. And this is not a great album.
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Chicago Tribune
At its best, it does its job very well – a mix of bangers and ballads as instant and insistent as anything on commercial radio.
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The Top Tens
This is a misogynistic, amateurish, overproduced calamity of the highest order.
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Ranting About Music
You’d be more fortunate to skip this one.
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CNN
Fortune furthers the uncomfortable and frustrating disconnect between Brown's hotheaded personal life and his oddly edgeless musical persona.
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NZ Herald
Things turn more sinister on an emotional level, and lazy on the musical side
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Newsday
Fortune, shows so much of the musical growth that his fans had long been expecting.
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California Literacy Review
It’s a mess of generic electro-R'n'B, with 2012’s requisite inappropriate and badly handled bass-vworp garnished liberally around the place and a lot of seduction tracks.
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Music OMH
Fortune is the kind of record that will please Brown’s many deluded female fans, but we cannot with good conscience give it a single star.
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Digital Spy
While the vast majority of Fortune is a far cry from being terrible, there is a frustrating lack of progression from an artist apparently capable of so much more.
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Spectrum Pulse
Do not listen to this album
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Music is my Oxygen
Chris Brown has talent (obviously), but we may never know whether or not that talent includes enough creative energy to escape its essential reliance on whichever style happens to rule the day.
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Metro News
Amidst the lightly clubby tracks about sex, Chris Brown’s Fortune has brief flashes of soulful potential.
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