Chris Brown’s First TV Performance of “Zero” on ‘Jimmy Fallon’ Was A Bit Of A Mess But There’s Room For Improvement! Watch!
R&B singer Chris Brown will release this Black Friday, November 27th (Update: pushed back to December 18th!), his new album titled “Royalty”, named after her first daughter, and in view of the closeness of this date the RCA Records-signed artist has begun the promotion of the music from this new album on US television. His first appearance was on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on NBC last night, November 25th. It was there where Chris Brown offered the very first televised performance of his newest single “Zero”. That’s right, it’s a fact Breezy Boy hadn’t performed his new single on TV anywhere till last night. Crazy, huh?
For this important first TV performance of “Zero”, Chris Brown decided to sport a look a little more serious than we’re used from him. He hit the ‘Jimmy Fallon’ late show stage wearing ankle-high sneakers, slim blue jeans, a nude sweater and a jacket of a similar color. Breezy finished the serious look wearing fake prescription glasses. Fashion-wise, this probably was one of Chris’ best nights ever (such a pleasant view not to see him anymore wearing his gangster clothes), but vocals-wise, it was a bit of serious mess. I remembered liking “Zero” but I totally forgot about Chris Brown’s heavily edited vocals, and these totally did not translate well on a live performance on TV. Truth is Chris’ last night performance was a bit uncomfortable to watch. Chris clearly used playback throughout the whole of it, and limited himself to sing ‘live’ only certain parts of “Zero” over the backing track, but the playback was so loud that we could barely hear ‘him’. A disaster, indeed. For the next TV performances, Chris should either use a microphone with the ‘vocoder’ effect on and sing ‘live’ all of "Zero" or at least make viewers take their attention off of his vocals by including a killer dance break in the middle. That’s right! A big group choreography was what was missing from last night’s “Zero” performance too. I was really expecting Chris to join his dancers at some point.