With his new album, ‘Passion, Pain & Pleasure’, now in stores, Trey Songz decided to carry his yodeling act to ‘106 & Park’. The sex peddler performed several tracks including ‘Can’t Be Friends’, ‘Neighbours Know My Name’ and more. Peep the mini concert below:
Four albums later and Songz still has not learned how to sing a song without going dramatically off-key. Maybe if he stopped trying to sound passionate by lacing every line with Scooby Doo-style vibrato he would be able to focus on how his voice matches the melody of the music.
However, it is highly unlikely that currently Songz cares about his skill as a vocalist. ‘Passion, Pain & Pleasure is set to debut in the top 5 of next week’s Billboard 200 with sales of 220-230k. Songz is living proof that sex sells in today’s music industry and that being innovative, original or even interested in artistic growth is not a major point on most people’s agendas.
Clearly Songz’s mission of providing the public with more generic and shallow material is finally working in his favour. He has found his niche on the charts as just another male artist who enjoys sexually objectifying the bodies of women in his lyrics; an empty shell of the artist was when he first debuted.
Let’s see if Songz will finally get pass gold status and if he will get another BET Award to add to his budding collection. At the end of the day he better get while the getting is good because shallow artists like him have an expiration date and the clock is ticking.