Album · 1988
Don't Be Cruel
by Bobby Brown
Don't Be Cruel is a 1988 contemporary r&b album by Bobby Brown. It runs 11 tracks across 48 minutes. Riffiter listeners rate it 4.0/5 from 2 ratings.
Contemporary R&B · New Jack Swing · Dance-Pop
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- 4.0 /5
- 2 ratings
- 11
- Tracks
- 48 min
- Runtime
- 108 bpm
- Tempo
- D major
- Key
Ratings
2 ratings · avg 4.0
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Don't Be Cruel album cover
The Don't Be Cruel cover was designed by Julie Moss, photographed by Todd Gray, and art-directed by JA.
- Design
- Julie Moss
- Photography
- Todd Gray
- Art direction
- JA
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Tracklist
11 tracks · 48 min
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It should have come as no surprise that, after leaving behind the strictures of the classic boy band New Edition, Bobby Brown would re-emerge as a prototype of New Jack Swing sex appeal. DON'T BE CRUEL might be somewhat tame, however, as it was still a few years before the era of unabashed rumpshakers like Bell Biv Devoe's "Poison." But the hard funk slapped over melodic, synth-heavy production gives tracks like "My Perogative" and "I'll Be Good To You" a mature, club-friendly quality sorely lacking in his former group's sunshiney tunes.
In brief
- Is Don't Be Cruel good?
- Riffiter listeners rate Don't Be Cruel 4.0/5 from 2 ratings.
- When was Don't Be Cruel released?
- Don't Be Cruel was released in 1988.
- How many tracks are on Don't Be Cruel?
- Don't Be Cruel has 11 tracks, with a runtime of 48 minutes.
- What genre is Don't Be Cruel?
- Don't Be Cruel is catalogued under Contemporary R&B, New Jack Swing, Dance-Pop.
- What BPM is Don't Be Cruel?
- Don't Be Cruel runs at a median tempo of 108 BPM across its tracks, most often in D major, measured from audio analysis.
- What albums are similar to Don't Be Cruel?
- Listeners of Don't Be Cruel also rate Thriller by Michael Jackson, All for Love by New Edition, janet. by Janet Jackson.
Don't Be Cruel at a glance
- Label
- MCA Records
- Produced by
- Babyface
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