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Say Goodbye, the sound created by Chris Brown, emerges from the rich, multifaceted creative ecosystem of Kenya, a body of work that defies the standard genre classification systems that organize most popular and independent music alike, categorized explicitly as other/other/other to signal that it cannot be contained by any of the dominant sonic, cultural, or structural frameworks that define widely recognized music genres. This refusal to fit neatly into preexisting genre boxes is not a limitation, but a deliberate framing that allows the work to stand on its own terms, unshackled from the expectations that come with being labeled with a genre that audiences or industry stakeholders might think they know, whether that’s a mainstream pop framework, a regional folk framework, a global hip-hop framework, or any other set of conventions that might lead a listener to bring unearned assumptions to their experience of the sound.
