Sing Like Me

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"Sing Like Me"
Promotional single by Chris Brown
from the album Graffiti
ReleasedNovember 24, 2009 (2009-11-24)
RecordedThe Compound (Orlando, Florida)
Genre
Length4:15
Label
Songwriter(s)
  • Chris Brown
  • Big Makk
  • Keith Thomas
  • Lorenza "Big Lo" Lennon
  • Atozzio Towns
Producer(s)
  • Big Makk
  • Keith Thomas
  • Big Lo
Audio video
"Sing Like Me" on
YouTube

"Sing Like Me" is a song by American recording artist

Keith Thomas, Lorenza "Big Lo" Lennon and Atozzio Towns, and produced by Makk, Thomas and Lennon. An R&B ballad, the song contains lyrics about Brown leaving a nightclub with several women. "Sing Like Me" received mixed response from critics, and charted for two weeks on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
in 2010, peaking at number eighty-four.

Background and composition

"Sing Like Me"
A sample of the song, demonstrating its slow tempo and "singing like me" hook. The tune utilizes Asian-influenced strings and 808 drums.
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"Sing Like Me" was written by Chris Brown, Big Makk,

The Record Plant—a studio in Los Angeles, California.[1]
The cover art of the song's promotional release is styled similarly to the cover of Graffiti. It has a retro look, showing Brown wearing black clothes and a red cardigan and sunglasses.[2] "Sing Like Me" was released by Jive Records and RCA Records via the United States iTunes Store on November 24, 2009.[3]

"Sing Like Me" is a slow jam[2] R&B ballad,[4] featuring 808 drum beats and a string arrangement featuring Asian influences.[2] Billboard's Sarah MacRory likened the tune's beat to R. Kelly's "Feelin' on Yo Booty" (2001).[5] Lyrically, the track is about Brown leaving a nightclub with several women, none of whom Brown wants to marry.[2] The song's chorus features the hook "I gotta girl singin' like me".[2] Yahoo! Music's reviewer said that the song has lyrics where Brown "boasts about the girls who can't get enough of him",[6] and described the lyrics as Brown raving about "his celebrity status and his skills with women".[5] A writer for Rap-Up wrote that on the song Brown "make[s] the ladies sing his praises."[7]

Reception

"Sing Like Me" was noted as one of the best tracks on Graffiti by a

Time Out New York's reviewer disliked the fact that "Sing Like Me" and "Crawl" were placed adjacently on Graffiti, but called both tunes "otherwise strong songs".[10] The Boston Globe's Sarah Rodman called the song "skeevy", and compared it to the "sex stuff and braggadocio" of R. Kelly.[11] Melinda Newman of HitFix noted its lack of creativity,[12] while Nathan S. from the DJ Booth wrote that there is "nothing particularly remarkabl[e]" about "Sing Like Me" and Graffiti's lead single, "I Can Transform Ya".[13] Roxana Hadadi of Express Night Out was unimpressed with the selfish adult lyrics on "Sing Like Me".[14]

While it was not officially sent to radio, "Sing Like Me" entered the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs at number ninety-six on March 6, 2010.[15] The next week it rose to its peak position of number eighty-four, before falling off the chart the following week.[16]

Personnel

Source:[1]

References

  1. ^
    Chris Brown. Jive Records, RCA Records. 2009. p. 1.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link
    )
  2. ^ a b c d e Kaufman, Gil (November 13, 2009). "Chris Brown Drops New Single, 'Sing Like Me'". MTV News. MTV. Retrieved December 8, 2010.
  3. Apple.com. Archived
    from the original on November 11, 2013. Retrieved November 2, 2013.
  4. ^ Mitchell, Gail (January 19, 2010). "Chris Brown, 'Graffiti'". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved December 8, 2010.
  5. ^
    Nielsen Business Media
    . Retrieved December 8, 2010.
  6. ^ a b "Review: Solid Brown CD still can't escape cloud". Yahoo! Music. Yahoo!. December 7, 2009. Retrieved December 8, 2010.
  7. ^ "New Music: Chris Brown – 'Sing Like Me'". Rap-Up. Retrieved December 8, 2010.
  8. ^ "Exclusive Review: Chris Brown – 'Graffiti'". That Grape Juice. November 30, 2009. Retrieved January 24, 2011.
  9. NBC Universal/Microsoft. Associated Press. December 7, 2009. Archived from the original
    on November 2, 2010. Retrieved December 10, 2010.
  10. Time Out New York
    . December 9, 2009. Retrieved January 24, 2011.
  11. ^ Rodman, Sarah (December 6, 2009). "It's Chris Brown's turn, but who wants to listen?". The Boston Globe. The New York Times Company. Retrieved December 8, 2010.
  12. ^ Newman, Melinda (December 8, 2009). "Review: Chris Brown's 'Graffiti': Is it just scrawl?". HitFix. Retrieved December 8, 2010.
  13. ^ S., Nathan. "Chris Brown – Graffiti". The DJ Booth. Archived from the original on July 24, 2011. Retrieved January 24, 2011.
  14. ^ Hadadi, Roxana (December 8, 2009). "Some Comeback: Chris Brown, 'Graffiti'". Express Night Out. Retrieved December 8, 2010.[permanent dead link]
  15. ^ "R&B/Hip-Hop Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. March 6, 2010. Retrieved December 8, 2010.
  16. ^ "Chris Brown Chart History". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved December 8, 2010.

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