Chris Brown has debuted his latest video from the upcoming Graffiti with the new mid-tempo ballad “Crawl”, which features Cassie as the lead girl.

Glad she is still getting work from SOMEWHERE. Maybe she should go on “I Want To Work For Diddy”. Keyword being work. I digress.

This song is pretty darn good stacked up against all the other songs that the dynamic duo have sparred with releasing. Chris Brown has taken the pity road in my opinion though. This video (in my interpretation) shows both how cold he is since his love left and also how he feels alone without her (hence the desert shots, which kind of came about unexplicably). Cassie plays the girl he’s forced to long for from a distance, whether it be through the TV, stalking her on the red carpet…through his sad Lil’ Mama face and nerdy but affable and “cute” glasses LOL.

*insert heart swoons from the ladies I guess*

I don’t hate it and definitely wouldn’t change the channel if it came on, which is a good thing since it’ll probably be everywhere. The director Joseph Khan, no stranger to pop videos, did an excellent job of balancing the abstract with the simple minded views of the probable majority of Chris Brown fans. Keep it simple, stupid. Now if he could do the same thing with his PR blitz…album drops December 8th.

Well, we finally get a peek at what Chris Brown is bringing musically these days, visually.

This video is chock full of what you’d expect from a song with the title “transform” in it — even a cameo by the “star” of the “Transformers” movie, Tyrese. I use that term “loosely” because I swear Tyrese has like, 10 lines. LOL. Anyway.

Joseph Khan basically turns this into a young man at heart’s dream world, with robots, cars, girls, ninjas, motorcycles, and more. Strip away all that, and you can still see that at the end of the day, Chris Brown can DANCE. Lord can he ever!

He has this super aggressive masculine dancing toward the beginning, and then he has these way more stylistic, fluid almost feminine movements toward the end.

There’s a lot of different videos I can see this one not so much copying but channeling — MJ & Janet’s “Scream” (effects/robots), Janet again with “Feedback” (the dancers/helmets/some of the dance moves), and Beyonce’s latest videos (the 2 singular dancers, not to say that she “created” that style though).

Wayne is almost inconsequential in this video for a change, and the only thing interesting about Swizz is his hairline (or lack thereof). Other than that, it’s not bad. Chris gets his Power Ranger/Transformers young dude fix while at the same time showing us that he’s still talented in his own right, troubled or not.

What ya’ll think?