F/ MY MANS TREY SONGZ

yeah i didn't like the last one at all

his sound isn't interesting to me at all, i find his albums to be weirdly greyscale. got good singles sometimes of course.

Passion, Pain & Pleasure is a back to back classic in my book; that one never lets up. I have no idea how he went so wrong with Chapter V, though. Terrible album.

trey songz doesn't strike me as one of the r&b dudes most concerned with creative control, his label probably just thought he'd reached the limit of his market potential and didn't give him the best songs

Passion, Pain & Pleasure is a back to back classic in my book; that one never lets up. I have no idea how he went so wrong with Chapter V, though. Terrible album.

― Evan R, Tuesday, May 13, 2014 12:22 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

looking back at PPP... i wonder if trey is the only artist to have a drake feature on a song not produced by 40 and a 40 song that doesn't have a drake feature on the same album

i get the opposite impression, i think he has a hand in the writing of most if not all of his songs and has a very strong sense of his sound and his 'brand,' whether i always like the results of not. xp

Yeah, I think Al's right. If you look at PP&P, he was the primary writing credit on nearly every song, which is probably why that was such a coherent, vaguely classicist R&B album. On Chapter V, he has almost exclusively secondary writing credits. That's probably why that album is such a scattered mess; there was almost certainly some label meddling going on there

Like a lot of R&B singers, it doesn't take much for Songz to come across as a sleazeball, a cornball or an asshole. Chapter V really didn't have a good sense of where those boundaries were.

that album had TWO songs built around football metaphors. the Ty Dolla $ign-written "Fumble" was just the worst.

"heart attack" is his best single though (either that or "can't help but wait" imo)

"Heart Attack" is all time. Plus it's my fiance's favorite Trey Songz single; she's been talking about doing it at karaoke for ages.

Wouldn't be doing my duty if i didn't note that the new album is really, really good. A lot zippier and more club-minded than the last couple of albums, and save for a track or two it doesn't leave the sour aftertaste that other male-fronted Mustard&B does. And the Nicki track is going to be a great single

http://www.mtv.com/artists/trey-songz

saw this mention of Trey in a Washington Post article on a great funky North Carolina family group called Brass Connection who have moved to DC and have been playing street corners:

Their first hot spot was Dupont Circle. It was there, they say, that R&B singer Trey Songz hopped out of a limo to listen. The crowd went wild. He put $500 in their bucket.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/brass-connection-band-for-washington-mystics-makes-crowds-dance-on-dc-streets/2014/06/20/963954be-f709-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html

i love "slow motion" and cannot believe charlie puth was responsible for the song's existence

yeah "slow motion" is incredible

Write in vote: "Beat It Up" - Gucci Mane feat. Trey Songz (2010)

love "slow motion"

not f/ my mans but i really like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v5HZTwFBCs

dang didn't even know he had a new album. I'm five tracks in & it feels pretty lifeless :/

do you like that song, Evan?

Yeah it's sweet and breezy, though as a lead single it's kinda underwhelming. I know this board/people in general rip on A&R interference, but I'm kinda shocked his label let him release this album. So much B material, and it kills whatever commercial momentum the guy had

I guess I'd rather hear the guy make a very low key R&B album than go full Derulo but still