Dawn Richard Speaks on Chris Brown and Rihanna + “If I Could”

Someone should stitch together all of the celebrity responses to the Chris Brown and Rihanna mess. Actually, I don’t know that they would be anything different than what we the people have been saying. I personally think they’ve both done permanent damage to their careers: Chris Brown post-fight photo and Rihanna post-reconciliation.

There is another view that the situation has been blown up and people need to let them work it out beyond the blog posts, TV, radio, and gossip magazine covers.

Dawn Richards holds that opinion. Speaking to MTV she said..

“It’s a shame and I think it’s their business and it sucks that it has to be out there. The media attention is like a microscope — everybody’s in your stuff. It’s their business and whatever they choose to do with it, I wish them luck. It’s not my business. I wish that everybody would back off and let them deal with it the way they deal with it.”

Letting it play out in private would be nice, but in the real world this story is far from disappearing. In April, after the continuance of his arraignment, Chris Brown is rumored to be doing a run of the talk shows to tell his side of the story. No doubt Rihanna will walk that same path. Hey, maybe they’ll do it as a couple. That’s actually the smart way to go about it if they’re going to continue their love jones.

That’s the kind of career saving advice PR’s get paid for: I’ll take a five figure debit to my account.

New Sounds

Later this year, Dawn Richard will make her first attempt to continue the success Danity Kane had as a group. “If I Could” is a new leaked solo song off the Danity Kane Comic Book soundtrack. Not sure how that works now, given the group’s status, which is probably why it’s been pushed webside.

Dawn Richard “If I Could”

First pass I hated it. Second.. saw potential. Third it’s cool, but I’m still wondering why everyone is so stuck on the robotic computer verbs for their vocal tracks.

---