Best Coast singer Bethany Cosentino has accused Chris Brown’s new song of perpetuating rape culture.
The American singer-songwriter rebuked the lyrics of the single 'Back to Sleep' and dubbed the song “trash”. She took particular issue with the chorus: “Just let me rock, f**k you back to sleep girl. Don’t say a word no, girl don’t you talk”.
“You already know how I feel about Chris Brown - but WHY/HOW are those lyrics ok? Cool, a song that perpetuates rape culture being a hit,” Cosentino wrote on Twitter.
Brown has released the trailer for his new documentary Welcome to My Life today. In the video he speaks about what it was like to become “public enemy number one" and how he “felt like a f***ing monster”.
“I was thinking about suicide and everything else. I wasn't sleeping. I barely ate. I just was getting high,” the 26-year-old says.
But the clip concludes with Brown announcing his comeback. “If there was ever a doubt Chris Brown was done, he was finished, I wouldn’t bet on it”.
Brown pleaded guilty to assaulting former girlfriend Rihanna just hours before the Grammy Awards in 2009. Brown was sentenced to 180 days of community service, one year of domestic violence counselling, anger management classes and five years of probation – which he was released from roughly a year ago. In the direct aftermath of the assault, harrowing images of Rihanna’ bruised, swollen face surfaced and were widely disseminated.
A representative for Brown did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
