Chloe Bailey & Chris Brown Grapple With ‘Giving More Than You Wanted’ In Their Video For ‘How Does It Feel’

Chlöe – aka Chloe Bailey, one fractional of Chloe x Halle — continued the rollout of her debut solo workplace connected Friday (Feb. 24), releasing “How Does It Feel,” the 2nd azygous (or “piece”) from In Pieces. After days of backlash implicit the opus featuring Chris Brown, “How Does It Feel” arrived on with a video that saw Chlöe and Chris commercialized verses astir a failing relationship. “Yeah, spot that’s the happening astir spot / It’s ne'er been astir us,” sings Chlöe, per Genius. ” ‘Cause we were doin’ excessively overmuch / We threw the racks retired astatine Follies / Gave you the cardinal wherever my bosom bushed /  You didn’t accidental it but you said it / It shouldn’t person wounded maine but I fto it.”

The ocular besides features Chlöe successful a bid of outfits, each showing much shin than the last. If the R&B opus didn’t already found her arsenic a enactment symbol, with her silky yet almighty vocals, the video surely did (while besides making a assertion for her to beryllium a caller manner icon.)

Chris heralded the song’s accomplishment connected Instagram. “@chloebailey you are a beauteous soul… TAKE OVER THE WORLD SHAWTY and DON’T LOOK BACK! YOU ARE A QUEEN! DON’T LET NOBODY TELL YOU NO DIFFERENT! You followed your dreams and present the beingness is fulfilling that manifestation,” helium wrote connected Feb. 22. “Can’t hold for the satellite to perceive the magic we created,” Chlöe wrote underneath (h/t Billboard).

With Halley Bailey focusing connected her acting vocation (she stars successful the live-action adaptation of Disney’s The Little Mermaid this year), Chlöe has enactment her efforts into music. In Pieces, arriving successful March, is “everything that I’ve been going through, each the tearing down, radical underestimating, telling maine I can’t bash it — each of those things person gone into the music,” Chloe told Essence in 2022.

“The medium is maine picking myself up and talking myself retired of immoderate small spot oregon abstraction that the satellite has tried to enactment maine in,” she added, “that radical and idiosyncratic relationships person tried to enactment maine in, and adjacent [doing that to] myself. It’s maine breaking free.”

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Chlöe announced the azygous connected Feb. 16 by sharing a photograph of her alongside Chris, 33, to her societal media accounts. Immediately afterward, fans argued against the continued enactment of Chris Brown, considering his past of behavior. Cheetah Girls alum Kiely Williams wrote, “Let him travel retired with his ain grounds – truthful genius, truthful captivating that it makes america each hide HE BEATS WOMEN. He can’t truthful helium won’t. So what does helium do? He dilatory creeps backmost into the mainstream by getting tiny nods for features connected Black Women’s merit. Black women who are much talented, much worthy, but springiness him the okay.”

Chris responded to Kiely by saying that ” you are astatine a constituent successful your beingness wherever either you are precise broke oregon broken. THE FACT you deliberation you person to talk negatively astir maine makes u look truthful lame.” Chris besides mocked Kiely’s lisp with his comments.

On Feb. 17, Chris took to his Instagram Story to vent his frustration. “If y’all inactive hatred maine for a mistake I made arsenic a 17-year-old, delight buss my full full a**,” helium tweeted, referring to the February 2009 incident wherever helium assaulted Rihanna to the constituent wherever she had to beryllium hospitalized. Chris was charged with felony battle and making transgression threats. He aboriginal pleaded blameworthy successful tribunal to a felony and avoided prison.

On his IG Stories, Chris past posted 15 screenshots evidently from a Ranker post titled “Celebrities Who Have Been Charged With Domestic Abuse” (h/t Complex) portion asking, “Where are the cancel civilization with these achromatic artists that day underage women, BEAT THE F*** OUT OF THEIR WIVES” and such.

In the aftermath of Chris’s defense, fans pointed retired that his ex, Karruecche Tran, had to get a five-year restraining order against Brown successful 2017. Chris reportedly near ” profanity-laden voicemails and substance messages successful which helium threatened to ‘beat the s***’ retired of her,” per The Daily Beast.

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