F/ MY MANS TREY SONGZ

it was hilarious tonight when trey started doing "purple rain" and they cut to prince for like 10 seconds and he's all "yep........."

actually feel really bad for prince, all these reaction shots

damn, wish i'd stayed up to see that

lol this thread

trey songz is pretty much the biggest R&B star out right now right? i mean in terms of zeitgest & everything thats who ppl are checking for

yeah he definitely is -- he's kind of unimaginably big tbh, in context

yeah i mean i would say Usher is still technically bigger but is kinda running on career momentum, it's clearly MMTS's year

trey's mom at the BET awards was some kind of fox, like damn

http://i.imgur.com/lArz0.gif

that is seriously up there in the pantheon of prince gifs

haha look at the dude behind as well

didnt even realise these gifs were originally fourfour's, shouldve known

http://i45.tinypic.com/2it3m1w.jpg

i can't even imagine being prince in that situation -- seeing all these jokers singing your songs with this camera one foot from your face

yeah no doubt!!

actually this one captures it better

http://i50.tinypic.com/b3wfmq.gif

NO THIS ONE

http://www.gifsoup.com/view/802788/prince-reaction-to-alicia-keys-o.gif

haha the tiny moment of realness he couldnt resist

what i wouldnt pay to see the-dream do yamaha in front of him

mmts is so anonymous, i just saw a whole video by him and had no idea it was my mans until the end

damn, i think i like this song a lot

oops rong thread

haaaaaaaa

f/w my mans trey songz

1. Linkin Park – Thousand Islands – 241,214 *Debut
2. Trey Songz – Passion Pain & Pleasure – 240,209 *Debut

wow

lol @ Thousand Islands

was expecting a big first week for my mans though

good for my mans

that's just about as much as katy perry has done in three weeks right?

my mans doesn't do earnest very well.

all the songs featured in this poll are so fucking bad

idk rev i fuck w/ "can't be friends"

that was exactly the song that made me say that

it sounds like some classic mario winans ish to me

i p much hate mario winans tho

What do you dudes think of "Blind" though.

my mans is seriously so boring & oftentimes so aggressively anonymous that i have a hard time saying that he does a certain type of song well -- i think material makes or fails him, not the other way around

otm

don't know "blind"

It's pretty fucking earnest.

the best trax on his album are the earnest ones

ok one of those earnest songs has him mimicking a doorbell but w/v

i still don't think i could ever bring myself to listen to a trey songz album

neither did i, before i actually listened to this one. it's worth it!

i like as much earnest stuff (i need a girl, can't help but wait, can't be friends) as i do jokey stuff (bottoms up/say ahh, i invented sex, neighbors know my name)

oh yeah, "can't help but wait" is good. forgot about that one.

i think it's hard to get through the whole thing in one sitting -- it's long and kinda monochromatic & i've had to force myself to go back & hear it in order for songs to start separating themselves in my mind

he's kind of an artist right now where i end up loving like pretty much every single, and you could cobble together a pretty dope 13 or 14 song album out of his last two albums combined, but neither of them are actually all that great, tho i think the last one is prob slightly better

oh i pretty much just listen to either the first third or, more often, the last third of the new trey - def a bit too much for one sitting. he sounds like he pushes himself a lot more not to sound generic when he's being earnest - re: his lighter stuff, i don't dislike songs like "say ahh", and if i ever heard them on the radio i'd probably be more fond of them, but they're not that special.

everytime i hear "bottoms up" i feel like trey must have sheepfacedly went back to the lab after doing "say ahh" and been like "ok i probably could have been a bit less obvious about ripping off 'blame it'"

hearing "say ahh" on the radio a bunch taught me to hate it. it reeallly doesn't hold up.

i think my problem with "can't be friends" is he's being a sleeze and trying to pass himself off as sympathetic. like...i have no problems with r&b dudes being sleezy as long as they kind of own it? but when they try to have it both ways it triggers my gag reflex.

ha i have not paid enough attention to the lyrics of that song tbh

yeah the last third of the recent album is very good

i think my problem with "can't be friends" is he's being a sleeze and trying to pass himself off as sympathetic.

this strikes me as pretty real.

I think it's a great album.

i like the new album pretty well

"Can't Help But Wait" is great because Trey is the 2nd hammiest vocalist in R&B after Beyonce and it taps into that while still utilizing his young man swag -- the intro with the pew pew pew lazer gun noises and deadpan "check it out" leading right into those verses full of over-the-top vibrato and the ridiculous emphasis of lines like "you're worth MUCH MORE THAN THE OCCASIONAL I LOVE YOU!!!!!" that tension is missing from "Can't Be Friends," which is just pure pork.