Is it just our imaginations, or has the R&B world gone crazy-go-nuts for four-on-the-floor dance music of late? Not since the Jungle Brothers dropped "I'll House You" has urban radio sounded so much like one of those abnormally sweaty clubs you went to that summer you went backpacking through Europe. First Rhianna wanted to take us out clubbing with "Don't Stop The Music," while Mary J. kicked into third gear with "Just Fine." (Maybe it was those alleged "performance enhancers.) Then, elder stateswoman Janet Jackson kept the party going but took it into after-hours, soulful-house territory with "Rock with U."
Now it's phenom Chris Brown who's got us all searching franticly for our pointy shoes and our "going-out shirt." His newest video is half The Matrix, half Verizon Wireless commercial, and twice as sexy at twice the speed.