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When Trey playfully sings, “Send that little face with the tongue cause I’m nasty,” we have a genuinely novel pop music moment: a booty call (an R&B staple) that only this generation can relate to. But it is the comical “LOL :-),” featuring Gucci Mane and Soulja Boy Tell‘Em, that sees Trey finally reach the heights of his blogosphere exploits. No better are similarly timid, tedious tracks like “Love Lost” and “Jupiter Love.” Where is the bravado, the charm?īetter are the swagga-oozing “Panty Droppa” and “I Invented Sex,” which expertly build the mood with chopped and screwed vocals and exploding percussion, respectively. For evidence, look no further than lead single “I Need A Girl” with its run-of-the-mill lyrics about longing hearts, it sounds like the work of any middling R&B singer. Instead of being inventive and genuinely charismatic, the Trey we find on Ready is often generic and monotonous. His albums, thus far, have lacked the ingenuity and eclecticism of his freestyles and covers. But he has not given them the opportunity. This adaptability is the reason he can successfully cover songs from such a wide gamut of genres.īrash, versatile, charismatic, and modern, Generation Y should be consuming Trey Songz in droves. Over MIA’s “Paper Planes,” for instance, Trey’s vocal stylings imaginatively vary from unhurried crooning to a frantic Dirty South flow to an Auto-Tuned Jamaican groove. His singing has a rapper’s flow about it, and his lyrics are filled with brash punchlines.
But Trey blends spitting and singing with even greater subtlety. Drake, much like 808-era Kanye West and Lil Wayne, succeeds because he is a truly modern pop artist, effortlessly switching between rapping and singing. “Songz Medley” finds Trey enlivening Young Money’s “Every Girl,” Ciara’s “Never Ever,” and, most notably, Pleasure P’s “Boyfriend #2,” on which Trey as Lothario cleverly turns pain into pleasure: “My baby gotta have me, but she want to make you happy/ She was supposed to come over but she just wanna console you, and I just wanna do both you.” On “Death of Autotune Kellz,” arguably his finest track to date, Trey lightheartedly jabs his fallen hero: “This a farewell, throw em down the stairwell/ And if he wants to compare sells with old Kells that ain’t fair/ Well he’s a legend but I’m fresher, check out my dresser I’m such a dresser.”Įlsewhere, “Successful” features urban music’s brightest star, Drake of “Best I Ever Had” fame. A master of reinterpretation, Trey has put his distinctive touch on a variety of hip-hop and R&B hits.
And it is on these “blogosphere joints” when Trey truly shines. Certainly effort has never been a problem for the hardest-working man in R&B, who releases freestyles and covers at a Waynian clip. Trey does not just want to be successful he really wants to be successful. The repetition is the first thing that hits you. In this plaintive lyric, we have a convenient jumping-off point for explaining Trey’s unfortunately fledgling career. The third time around, Trey displays a new vocal maturity combined with his renowned ability to twist notes and keys effortlessly, while presenting an increasing breadth of subject matter.“I just want to be, I just want to be successful,” sings Trey Songz on the latest single, “Successful,” from his third studio album, Ready. Indeed, with its blend of hip-hop, R&B, and pop - exemplified by tracks like 'Black Roses,' where Trey croons over a distorted guitar - 'READY' demonstrates his growth on every front. Blige's 'Be Without You' in 'One Love,' the Virginian draws on a range of influences to craft an album that will thrill his longtime fans and happily surprise all newcomers to the Trey Songz story. From the street single, 'Brand New,' to his self-described male version of Mary J. His first two Songbook Entertainment/Atlantic albums, 'I GOTTA MAKE IT' (2005) and 'TREY DAY' (2007), yielded a trio of top ten singles, 'Girl Tonight,' 'Last Time,' and 'Can't Help But Wait.' And when the latter song garnered Trey a coveted Grammy nomination for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance, it marked the validation of the faith shown in Trey by the late Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun, who hailed him as one of 'the most promising R&B artists we have had since we started the company 60 years ago.' Now, with the 2009 release of 'READY,' Trey Songz is more than ready to claim his place in the pantheon of R&B greats. Since making his recording debut in 2005, Trey Songz has patiently and artfully crafted some of the most acclaimed and compelling R&B music of the decade.