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Ne-Yo Aims For A Place In Pop's Royalty [Leak Of The Yesterday]
Posted on September 11, 2008
ARTIST: Ne-YoTITLE: Year Of The GentlemanWEB DEBUT: Sept. 10, 2008RELEASE DATE: Sept. 16, 2008ONE TWO FEW-LISTENS VERDICT: The songs that teased Ne-Yo's Year Of The Gentleman gave the hint that the singer/songwriter would aim for a more mature pop sound on this album. And Year as a whole would seem to bear this out; even Single, which has been reconfigured from a New Kids On The Block/Ne-Yo collaboration into a Ne-Yo-only slice of radio R & B, sounds like it makes sense here, thanks to it flowing much better with the grating if you ain't got no money bits stripped from it. (Although why Do...
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