Toya what happened to your UK Chart watch posts?
I like Miss Independant, but as I heard Forget About Me by Little Bit months ago this doesn't sound fresh and original to me.
Can't wait for the album though!
I been slacking I know. I'll definitely get onto it this week. 
This shit is an updated, faster version of "So Sick". BOO NE-YO! BOOOOOO!
It took me awhile for Closer to grow on me too! I like it now....Miss Independent is okay, it may grow on me latter
It's a nice track, and his voice doesn't irratate me as much on it.
7/10 songs on the Top 10 UK Charts are Urban! That's for last week though.
DAMN, I'm feelin this song. I done played this shit like 10 times over this weekend. But that harp sound is a So Sick sample lol!
i thought i would hate this but i really really like it!
Nope! Everytime I think I might check for his album something happens to make me change my mind.
I HATE Ne-Yo, His Character and cockyness stops me from liking his music, otherwise the track is aite ....just not him singing it, I'd have truly loved it if Lloyd Did it
'Closer' never grew on me. I despise that song. I think this song is ok, better than 'Closer.' However, this isn't enough to push people to buy his record.
Closer took a while to grow on me, but i love that song now...I really like Miss Independent. Neyo never fails to disappoint me...I will be checking for his album when it comes out in two weeks....
Toya did Closer really get to Number 1 here. I know it was Number 2 last week but I don't know about the week before.
@ Mileka, it was #1 for a few weeks.
I used to really like Ne-Yo but his overall cockiness, his bullshit remarks about the gay stuff and his comments about Queen Rihanna have put him in my doghouse. Woof punk bitch!
Didn't he drop an album a couple of months ago.
this sounds like "forget about me" by little bit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f...h?
v=falB_8VLTyA
I really like this song. It's the same old shit: the Stargate sound, with the harp, the lyrics of being sprung and shit. But I do like it. I don't think it's a good second single though. More like a third.
Ne-Yo's albums always tail off after one single anyway, so I doubt it'll matter.
Check the trout pout on that youtube still!
I don't like this song at all, Ne-Yo has to come better
thats what i thought when i heard this song. it sounded like LUV, Sexy Love, AND So Sick put into one. unoriginal, but its a good song.
"Manicured nails to set the pedicure off"
...followed by...
"Dude, she got me thinkin' about getting involved"
ummm...those lines together sound kind of like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1...h?
v=1ytCEuuW2_A
Failure (at least for you, Ne-Yo). He just keeps upping his *suspect* game, sorry to say.
This song left absolutely no impression on me. Other male singers have taken this concept and at least attacked it with some passion. Not Ne-Yo. That's too much. I also LOVE when the verse of a song blends seamlessly into the bridge which blends seamlessly into the chorus...*rollseyes*
Something inside me hates to be so mean to him but, at this point, it's hard to find something to compliment him on. Honestly, "Miss Independent" will get very little radio play and will surely hurt the sales of his album. "Closer" is the only song he's released/leaked so far that has an ounce of excitement, charisma, or complexity attached to it (which is why I like it a lot). Yet, like the first singles off his previous records, the remainder of the album is slated to, of course, be material not worthy of existence.
All I want to know is what is Ne-Yo trying to accomplish with this direction? What keeps this and all these other gutless songs he's released from "Year Of The Gentleman" going straight to music Hell with Trey Songz and Ray J's material? Ne-Yo must be in total denial that, musically, he's only a step above them. The only difference is his music isn't straight-up embarrassing; it's just pretty much unimportant and unproductive to music in general. I don't know which is worse, actually.
Maybe next time (but probably not).
Oh yeah! And Toya...I'm with you on "Closer" being a grower. Have you heard it in the clubs!? It sounds BIG! It was when I heard it knock in the club that I started liking the song.
Year of the gentleman will sell well on its first day, but the following week; sales will decline faster than Aretha Franklin's titties in a halter neck. That's always the way with his albums. Plus, he talks about trying to change R&B, but his shit sounds the same and like every other n***a's shit on the radio. Mainly because Stargate be passing his sound around like Jennifer Freeman at TUG entertainment. Plus dudes songs be lacking the lyrical creativity of many of the ladies songs these days.
Unlike Trey Songz and Ray J, Ne-Yo will always have a career because of his songwriting. Plus, he always manages to get at least one big hit from each of his albums, which is more than Trey and Ray have managed to muster between the two of them.
Random, Ray J's career has lasted almost as long as Brandy's, and he has just as many albums in roughly the same time span.
Hey J...ummm...
#1. I think you are agreeing with me, right?
#2. I'm not sure if your post was a response to me but I thought I'd respond back regardless...
Yes, Ne-Yo is a songwriter and will have always have a career but (this is if you were replying directly to me) I never said either of these things weren't true.
I was looking at Ne-Yo from a musical standpoint which, IMO, is a totally separate (and more negative) outlook. Yes, Ne-Yo has hits but in the grand scheme of things, I'd go so far as to say that only a handful of those really stood out from the genre he is targeting ("Sexy Love", "Because Of You", "Closer") and that is because the arrangement and production of those songs are both refreshing, for Ne-Yo AND Stargate. When he gets it right, I like the results a lot. When he gets it wrong, however, and it happens again and again, I begin to doubt his capabilities as an artist.
All I've consistently heard from Ne-Yo are unimpressive lyrics, lackluster, repetitive, production and so-so melodies (which are usually compromised because of his small singing range). A couple songs he'll do will be pleasant surprises while the next 5 I hear will have me wishing I was listening to someone else.
His career has been sufficiently built on hype since he came out of the shadows with "So Sick". This is definitely a double-edged sword because the quality of his output, overall, seems to be getting weaker with every album and I think the public's excitement is decreasing along with that.
He needs to start surprising listeners but seems to be avoiding that action like the plague (ironic since he actively works with the moment's most successful one-trick ponies, Stargate), for reasons I don't know. I stay giving dude the benefit of the doubt but I hate being disappointed damn near EVERY time!
Ms indenpendent to me is off the hook I am loving this track like crazy ... it has a caribbean feel to it... the beat is sick ...kinda like a zouk rythm twist with hip hop i am loving it...
Madman Jp
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