It doesn't even feel as big as "Heart Attack" or "Two Reasons"
― steendriver dysphoria hoos (The Reverend), Sunday, 4 May 2014 18:53 (ten years ago) link
yeah
― some dude, Sunday, 4 May 2014 19:14 (ten years ago) link
we need the billboard chart stats for his varous singles listed out here
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 May 2014 20:33 (ten years ago) link
I know I'm preaching to an empty room here, but I'm liking most everything I'm hearing from the upcoming album. July 1 release date; a few new songs out today:
http://karencivil.com/new-music-trey-songz-foreign-and-change-your-mind/
This one's still my fav:
https://soundcloud.com/spinzhoodrich/trey-songz-ft-jeezy-ordinary
I bet the album will be good.
― Evan R, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
he could have a pretty strong Greatest Hits collection at this point but i can't imagine getting hyped for a Trey album. the last one was trash outside the singles.
― some dude, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 16:12 (ten years ago) link
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.
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 16:17 (ten years ago) link
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, 13 May 2014 16:22 (ten years ago) link
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
― een, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
― 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
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 16:36 (ten years ago) link
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
― some dude, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 16:37 (ten years ago) link
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
― Evan R, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 16:42 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Evan R, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 16:45 (ten years ago) link
that album had TWO songs built around football metaphors. the Ty Dolla $ign-written "Fumble" was just the worst.
― some dude, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 16:45 (ten years ago) link
"heart attack" is his best single though (either that or "can't help but wait" imo)
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
"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.
― Evan R, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 16:56 (ten years ago) link
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
― Evan R, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 18:57 (ten years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 19:07 (ten years ago) link
i love "slow motion" and cannot believe charlie puth was responsible for the song's existence
― dyl, Saturday, 27 June 2015 07:22 (nine years ago) link
yeah "slow motion" is incredible
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 27 June 2015 21:53 (nine years ago) link
Write in vote: "Beat It Up" - Gucci Mane feat. Trey Songz (2010)
― Walter Galt, Sunday, 28 June 2015 00:15 (nine years ago) link
love "slow motion"
― wisdom be leakin out my louche douche truths (k3vin k.), Sunday, 28 June 2015 02:48 (nine years ago) link
not f/ my mans but i really like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v5HZTwFBCs
― flopson, Friday, 21 April 2017 18:54 (seven years ago) link
dang didn't even know he had a new album. I'm five tracks in & it feels pretty lifeless :/
― Evan R, Friday, 21 April 2017 19:22 (seven years ago) link
do you like that song, Evan?
― flopson, Friday, 21 April 2017 20:25 (seven years ago) link
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
― Evan R, Friday, 21 April 2017 20:35 (seven years ago) link
I guess I'd rather hear the guy make a very low key R&B album than go full Derulo but still
― Evan R, Friday, 21 April 2017 20:38 (seven years ago) link