Like...IF Chris Brown essentially put out this same Bruno album, would his fans accept it? And with his history and negative image, would it be well received outside of his own fanbase?

Or if someone like Usher made it, would folks be mad that he's not making "progressive" music and that he's relying on styles that came before his own time? Some folks claim Bruno gets a pass for what Black artists can't do, but I'm not sure if that's really it or not.

I can say, as Double 0 says, his writing and production squad is just perfection, so even when other artists make similar music, it's just never THIS good. Like, how the hell do you make a New Jack Swing song in 2018 that ends up at the top of the charts? If you told me this would happen before I heard the song, I would laugh in your face.