Has Chris Brown’s Career Been Rehabbed By A Minnesota Wedding?

@Alaska Miller: I'm afraid to watch the Today Show version. Would rather keep the original video memory intact.

@aLostLady: Anything that breaks out of the typical OCD/anxiety-fest that is most weddings = win in my book.

Totally agree. Every wedding should be a celebration like this.

The irony of all this is that if people really wanted to see some inspiring wedding ceremonies, they'd legalize gay marriage. I have friends in CA who had kooky ideas for their ceremony if Prop 8 had failed. I think monkeys were involved.

@MissNormaDesmond: I don't think anyone is trying to keep you from liking it, but you have to be kidding if you don't find it a little weird that someone is giggling and cheering and dancing and crying over a 5 minute clip of a bunch of people none of us even know, right?

Anyone remember when Dr. Dre kicked the crap out of Dee Barnes back in 1991? Yeah, thought so.

Everybody's puffing out their chest on Brown. But time will pass, and society's 3-second fish memory will ensure that Chris Brown makes a whole lot of paper. But Dre/Barnes was pre-internet, you say? So this is different? Jump on SoundScan and peep R. Kelly's numbers.

I'm done.

ligmasagbatch

@dreamypisces: Or maybe I read about it in the Wall Street Journal (see the link in my original post) or the many other news sources that reported on it. I just like to be aware of when someone is trying to sell me something.

@nozer: No, you can also take silly, happy stuff way too seriously and be tediously self-important about it.

@Lizawithazee: Won't you be a little soldier? I know your tears well enough.

They are not good dancers, this was not life altering for anyone but the participants, and the video is nothing more than a snapshot of a joyous time in the life of a group of people. One amusing (and perhaps moving) wedding use of a song is not going to Mr. Clean Magic Eraser the fact that Chris Brown is a batterer, and isn't that the fact that's standing in the way of his career right now.

Miss1565

@VoxPopuli: Good call.

@Alaska Miller: They are good at that.

That video is uncomfortably cheesy, I'm sorry.. Hate it! But I wish the bride and groom nothing but the best.... Chris Brown better be grateful because them using that outdated, passe song that includes a reference to Wrigleys, really helped Chris out.

Thank you for not letting this degenerate into one of those... "at my wedding, we..." "when I get married I'm going to..." fest. Thank you.

That reminds me. At my wedding, we....had MICHAEL FUCKING JACKSON in our wedding party. That's right, bitches. And, um, look how well that turned out.

And the first one. We'll say no more about that one.

@CowboyRob: Exactly. She was thrilled. And he was thrilled.

And isn't that the point.

@nozer:
Ah yes...I remember my brooding dilettantish "I'm too-cool-for-school" phase...

olivepony

@deardearfriend: He understood my appreciation for "Best i Show," which we were. And reference y'all missed. Que Lastima!

@formerlydictator4life1:

It's emotional because you can see the joy, love and fun in the wedding party, and it's multiplied 1000X when the camera pans back and captures such true happiness on the bride's face.

CowboyRob

I did not cry. I did not even come close to crying. I don't get it. I'm not heartless, I promise. Can someone who cried explain to me why you did it? And why is this video more popular than any of the other wedding videos out there?

Also, was I the only one who questioned the cheesy sunglasses and single flowers the bridesmaids carried? I would have been so. pissed. if a friend asked me to be a bridesmaid, then told me I had to wear sunglasses at an indoor wedding.

formerlydictator4life1

@SugitaAlcimede: Very true, but then, that makes it a good thing, right?

Alright, you cynics. You may never want to do this at your own wedding. You may be mortified if this occurred at a friend's wedding. But tell me you don't at least crack a dusty, creaky old smile at this video.

@shutupitsmine: I have long embraced my dorkiness. I'm a much happier person for it.

@CowboyRob: In the words of the great Foghorn Leghorn, "It's a joke, I say, a joke, son."

Good job, Today Show, for making something beautiful suck.

I couldn't watch it at work because it makes me cry - shouldn't all weddings be ecstatic rituals of your own creation?

i know im a dork.

shutupitsmine

this is why i'm glad i no longer live in minnesota.

@Pope John Peeps II: My husband went to a conference that shall remain unnamed, in New Orleans of all places, and he rolled in lookin' for the bar and ready to groove. No bar. No grooving. Which almost gave him a heart attack but then: suddenly the lights dimmed and the group (he and his posse just stared open-mouthed) started singing a song they'd decided was about The Business, as the conference's new theme song...but the power point presentation of the words to sing along did not work so someone held his computer aloft and they all sang aloud...to the little printed words threading across the tiny screen....with no booze.....husband can still barely talk about it without blushing.

jaxdesert

@nozer: Well, you might try loosening up a bit. No one's saying you have to like it, but why is it necessary to try to keep other people from liking it? I think I'd love it, no matter how badly they danced, if for no other reason than how totally unseriously they take themselves.

@nozer: If indeed, this song was a jingle for doublemint gum, I think the problem is you watch way too much tv rather than the couple choosing it to dance to at their wedding....me thinks.

dreamypisces

@MissNormaDesmond: I teared up too...you were not alone.

I thought this was the best viral wedding video I've EVER seen. They actually weren't that bad - as dancers go - and they all were so having fun with it. Which was really good to see...

dreamypisces

Why are people making reference to race? That is so 20th century. A great wedding entrance, you could see how happy everyone was. Even God was grooving a bit while giving His blessing on this wonderful couple.

CowboyRob

I thought ! was the only person who didn't think it was awesome. Do what you want, it's your day, but I can still think it's a powerful argument against white supremacy.

SugitaAlcimede

@VoxPopuli: I thought it was sweet; I even cried a bit. It's nothing I'd do myself in a million years, but I enjoy their enjoying it, I guess. However, yeah, if my groom-to-be proposed anything too similar, it might cause me to rethink the situation.

On the other hand, if he had the taste and the dance skills to pull off something like the above, it would totally confirm to me that I'd found the man of my dreams.

Watched this video, thought it was great that the bride and groom chose to express themselves with such attitude, felt nauseous the whole time because a song I had formerly loved to dance to has now been completely replaced by images of a battered abuse victim.

A friend asked me why I felt this way about Chris Brown and not about Michael Jackson when the molestation accusations came out. I have no idea and no explanation...maybe I felt more removed from the MJ scandal? Either way, I don't think I'll be dancing down my aisle to "Kiss kiss" anytime soon.

idyll

Am I the only one who cringed the whole time while watching this? I would never have a fancy uptight wedding, but at the same time I would not want my friends dancing like a bunch of dorks down the aisle to a really crappy pop song.

This is why I'd much rather elope if I ever meet husband material. Weddings are awkward.

@topsy: I have to believe you're joking in order to save my sanity. Please confirm this for me. You were "laughing and dancing in [your] seat"? This is just too much on the border of irony/sarcasm for me to understand.

In other news, Chris Brown and Rhianna will be dancing down the aisle to "Smack My Bitch Up. " True love!

doctorzizmor

I gotta say, it certainly made me smile, and I can't say that about most weddings. Now, it didn't give me CHILLS the way this did, but then, that's the movies...

@Trulymadlyme: Of course you did! The boss gave you the wink with the two-guns-pointing-at-ya salute, didn't he?

deardearfriend

@topsy: Happy sigh....now I'm going to go listen to that. Thanks!

deardearfriend

@meechybee: what gives you that idea?

@PandoraSpocks: Three WHOs? What're you, an owl?

PandoraSpocks

Compare this wedding video to some $200,000 bacanal in the Hamptons and its no contest as to who who had a better time and who I'd rather be friends with.

PandoraSpocks

I predict the same dance procession leaving divorce court.

@topsy: I agree, fellow non-jaded, non-cynical person!

I eat this wedding stuff UP. It's fun to see the pomp and circumstance go by the wayside once in a while and people truly enjoy themselves.

Although I was surprised that I didn't see this particular dance go down the aisle.

That was the ultimate fuck-you to Wagner

(also, I'm guessing their open-bar bill was huge!)

@takeouteurotrash: In response to those unable to just accept something lovely: In the words of the great Tracy Ullman "They don't know about us and they've never heard about love'

topsy

regarding the video: it makes me uncomfortable, but I think that's more about watching white people dance than the fact that it's at a wedding. I think it's a terrible idea, but it's not about me and I'm glad they enjoyed their own wedding in the exact way that they wanted to.

now, Rihanna, on the other hand: what the hell is wrong with this child? is this going to be a very famous "but I love him!" horrible battered-woman scenario played out in front of the entire world? I just don't understand this sort of behavior from domestic abuse victims. it's so fucking sad.

labyrinthine IS DOING THIS

May God bless this couple with everlasting happiness! What a wonderful expression of love and joy. I was smiling when it started, then my cheeks started to hurt from smiling too much. I cheered when the groom came out and by the time the bride came down the aisle I was laughing and dancing in my seat. I'll never forget this and I thank everyone involved for sharing it.

topsy

@Pope John Peeps II: I thought we sounded and looked awesome at that conference!

*** hrmph! ***

@nozer: Totally agree. That's why when my wife and I got married, we did interpretive dancing to John Cage's 4'33. Big hit with our loved ones.

@takeouteurotrash: subtle racism, or just really sort of lame? I guess that makes me for murder.

@nozer: Snap! I'm in the corner. I guess I'm...gasp!...for white people dancing to R&B.

White people + (ironically loving ) R&B = subtle racism!

Lather, rinse; repeat.

@takeouteurotrash: Yes, because only these two Americas can exist. If you aren't for murder, then you're for white people dancing to R&B and vice-versa.

It's THEIR wedding they had FUN, it has NOTHING to do with you. If people are seriously going to make ridiculous "how plebeian" comments they need to get over themselves.

milominderbinder

I predict a long, happy and prosperous life for this couple.

This video should be tagged: THINGS THAT ARE PLEASING TO THE LORD.

@Pope John Peeps II: I think you're onto something. I was hoping for the ironic-seriously Catholic tradition, wherein the groom's family holds up bed sheets that don't contain blood, tie the bride's hands behind her back, slit her throat, and throw her in a river.

What happened to traditional,hymen-loving catholic values, and the aesthetic originality in video-taping the murder and searching for a new bride the same night?

Who stole our America?

Uhhh... this song is just a jingle for doublemint. I understand that they're just having fun, so good for them, but they basically made their commitment to each other into a commercial for gum.

The should have walked down the aisle to that "I feel like chicken tonight" song. At least that would have been funny. This just makes mid-west white America seem like it's devoid of any culture besides corporate based consumerism.

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB121721123435289073.html?mod=blog

It's like the last scene in Footloose (the movie).

Mymoustache

@Trulymadlyme: Man, that wedding dance was the same thing as watching computer programmers at a computer programmer conference get up on stage and sing "bust a move", but they do it seriously and you know that somewhere they think they're being really cool and confident, and then you realize that everyone in the crowd knows all the words and then you think "I can't believe that these people exist".

@Pope John Peeps II: Eh, I am fan of any wedding that does not involve that Bible verse "love is blind, blah blah..." Then again, I tend to enjoy sunshine, puppies, ironical dancing, cheese, Franzia, soup, snow peas, talking or not talking.

@Trulymadlyme: Yeeeeah. It truly is refreshing to see white people dancing ironic-seriously to R&B. Truly the state of Minnesota is full of amazing, consummate aesthetic originals.

@Peter Feld: http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/07/13/2009-07-13_chris_brown_parties_wearing_a_300000_oops_necklace.html

it's nice to see what joy-filled newlyweds who aren't scary bridezillas or plucked from the savage waters of the New York Times Weddings and Celebrations look like every once in a while.

This is the reason why people seemed to have enjoyed the video. It was refreshingly not the same old same old. If anything, the video simply reaffirmed my opinion that the entire state of Minnesota is full of win.

Oops!

Perhaps, Rihanna felt the same way since the two both checked into the Trump hotel while using decoys to fool the paps.