"Best Love Song" is a single by American recording artist
T-Pain. The song features
Chris Brown
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and was released as the first official single from his fourth studio album, ''
RevolveЯ'', on March 22, 2011. The song was featured in the pilot of
The CW
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TV series ''
Hart of Dixie''.
Background
The song serves as the first official single from ''RevolveЯ'', following the release of the singles "
Take Your Shirt Off", "
Rap Song
"Rap Song" is a song by R&B singer T-Pain. The song features rapper Rick Ross and originally served as a single off T-Pain's fourth studio album '' RevolveЯ'', but never made it on the track list.
Background
His previous singles " Take Your ...
", and "
Reverse Cowgirl", which were billed as promotional singles. The song originally featured
R&B artist
Akon. The song also has background vocals from
R&B group
One Chance, Jon A. Gordon, Michael A. Gordon
The Gordon Brothers
The song, along with another track from RevolveR, "Separated", was first released to the public by T-Pain himself on February 7, 2011, via Twitter. T-Pain leaked the song himself on
Twitter
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as a response to poor-quality rips of his upcoming music being leaked to the Internet, stating: "Since nobody wants to respect this form of art that you all say we 'love' so much, I'm just gonna go ahead and start leakin the album myself tonight". The song was then officially released as a single in
digital download format on March 22, 2011.
Critical reception
IGN editor Chad Grichow panned the song: "The only uptempo tune it becomes a hindrance on is "Best Love Song", where Chris Brown and T-Pain make the terrible decision to attempt harmony. The combination of T-Pain's electro-wave vocals and Brown's smooth voice is the sound of soul flat lining." Jon Caramanica of The New York Times compared this song: "T-Pain also makes implicit arguments for himself in the lineage of R&B superhits: “Best Love Song” nods to Rihanna’s “Umbrella,” and “Bang Bang Pow Pow,” with its drunken strings, feels like a homage to Sisqo’s “
Thong Song
"Thong Song" is a song recorded by American R&B singer Sisqó. It was released on February 15, 2000, as the second single from his solo debut studio album, ''Unleash the Dragon'' (1999). "Thong Song" garnered four Grammy nominations and numerou ...
.” Jesse Cataldo wrote that "T-Pain can still pull in big names but can't provide interesting atmospheres for them to work in."
Music video
On May 25, 2011, the official music video for "Best Love Song" was released via
VEVO
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The music video depicts T-Pain and Chris Brown battling against each other to impress a certain girl who also appears in the video. But at the end she goes with another guy. The concept of the video, as well as the battle sequences depicted in the video, is a direct reference to the "battle of the bands" segment from the 2010 film ''
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World''.
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References
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2011 singles
T-Pain songs
Chris Brown songs
Songs written by T-Pain
Contemporary R&B ballads
Music videos directed by Erik White
2011 songs
Songs written by Chris Brown
Jive Records singles