Jordin Sparks was the last female winner of American Idol. The girl is filled with huge talent. Bitch can SING. And though I don’t particularly care for her genre of music, or anything really from the current decade, No Air, her duet with the unlikable lothario Chris Brown, is actually one of my favorite songs ever. Granted, the fact that Rachel and Finn sung this together on Glee did help me love it, but I really did find the song pretty amazing from the first time I encountered it. There’s something in the chorus that speaks to the captivity of true love, that sense of drowning without one’s partner. Hard as it is to admit I like a song that was written by a team of people behind the scenes, just like most of the crap that’s been produced and spewed upon us over the past decade, the saving grace is the truth in Jordin’s voice and, undeniably, Chris Brown’s as well.
From the historical writing archive. Original date: November 17, 2016. Recovered from local source material; editorial review is still in progress.