I wasn't referring to you.
Anyway, Chris Brown has bad form. His lines are sloppy, he's inaccurate and has a lot of excess movement, and he lacks real grace or ease in his step. He has some fluidity, that's probably his strongest trait as a dancer, along with okay speed, but that's about it. This is basic criteria used in judging dancers. If you don't want to use standards and want to call everything opinion, fine, but in doing so, you must relent that nothing can be called art as art is determined by standards, and without them, nothing can be decerned or seperated from the other, making everything worthless in the end.
When I say he dances with the common styles of the popular street dancers today, I mean just that. He does crunking, a popular street style, popping and locking, etc... he doesn't actually put steps together in a unique and distinctly recongnizable way. You could mistake him for any street dancer, which I have when I didn't know it was him on stage. Michael is not a street dancer, he doesn't specialize or focus on street dances. He is simply a dancer, in the purist sense of the term, his greatness based soley on his inital movement. Michael is like a professional, what with his technical profeciancy and ability to adapt and execute many different forms of dance. He routinely makes trained dancers look common, putting him on their level. Michael incorporates elements of street dancing in to his style, but his style is not street dancing or any specific form of street dancing, it is his own, unique and recongnizable style, a combination of jazz, tap, locking and sometimes popping, and pantomime, but most especially jazz. He puts steps together in a way which defines his style and makes it look unlike any other that has come before. All Chris does is move in one or two particular forms but without putting steps together in a unique manner which can be associated specifically with him, he dances like anyone who dances in those styles.
Energetic does not equate to good dancing. MC Hammer is energetic, but he looks completely uncontroled and unclean when he moves, which based on basic standards, makes him a bad dancer. Chris Brown can dance, but he isn't even a good dancer, let alone a great dancer. Back flips, flips in general, etc... That isn't dancing, that's acrobatics, and it doesn't impress me.
Speed counts for nothing if you can't control it. Form is everything in dance.
And he's a horrible singer. He has no range, very little control and his voice is ugly in tone.
Chris has said he want's to be bigger then Michael. I brought that up only as a joke, knowing that with his lack of creativity and his pale in comparison talent, that it's never going to happen. I think it's ammusing that he thinks he can achieve that and also show's ignorance on his part as to what it means to be that famous. If he knew, he wouldn't want it.
I've got nothing against the kid personally, I'm just speaking on him artistically.
