“Please Return My Call” shows just how well Songz can convey tremendous longing, while “Unfortunate” is achingly sad.
His phrasing alternates between a delicate touch that causes the words to hit like the soft plucking of piano keys on the verses - “Look what this girl done did to me / She done cut me off from a good good love” - and a ferocity on the hook that makes the sadness and regret palpable.
With Mario Winans, who seems to specialize in a very specific kind of aching R&B lament, Songz creates “Can’t Be Friends”, which gives him the opportunity to display a deep vulnerability that we’ve never heard from him before. Credit must be given to a clearly rejuvenated songwriting team of Troy Taylor, Edrick Miles, Tony Scales, and Songz himself, who in various combinations wrote the lyrics and melodies to nearly every song here.
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Gone, for the most part, are the sing-songy party songs that rely on catchy hooks instead of great melodies, and in their place is a series of songs that are, in total, as emotionally complex as Songz has yet been. Each song has a beautiful melody and Songz rides the tonal and rhythmic shifts with impressive agility, particularly on “Massage”.īut what is most astonishing is how complete an emotional experience “Love Faces”, “Massage”, “Red Lipstick”, and “Doorbell” are as notable for Songz’s newfound attention to the pleasure of his woman (rather than his own) as they are for a newfound strength in his singing. Nearly every song here is beautifully arranged and is built around his increasingly effective voice. Passion, Pain & Pleasure finds Songz as horny as ever, but expressing that horniness with a batch of songs that is supremely well-crafted and well-written.
So give Songz credit for making an album that is still very much a Trey Songz album, but deepens, expands, and complicates what it means to be a Trey Songz album. If you’re Trey Songz, you might be thinking you have to prove that Ready wasn’t a fluke. And doing something else entirely, particularly something more melodic and thoughtful, is a real risk for a young man who, let’s remember, broke through on his third album at a time when the industry isn’t investing in artist development the way it used to. Clearly staying in that horndog lane would make him money and satisfy his base of fans who like Party Trey, at least for a while. I Gotta Make It, it wasn’t clear which choice he would make. Ready‘s singles were huge, but they also threatened to obscure Songz’s vocal gifts and turn him into a one-dimensional pinup boy who throws a good party.įor many of us who had been following him since 2005’s Ready, into his commercial breakthrough and, due to their sexual nature, solidified his position as the pre-eminent sex symbol of his generation.īut it was clear by the end of that run of singles that Songz was at a crossroads: either continue in the lane that he had created for himself as a young horndog or try something else. He released no less than six singles that turned his third album, Trey Songz became a bonafide star last year.
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