Ne-Yo Aims For A Place In Pop's Royalty [Leak Of The Yesterday]

ARTIST: Ne-Yo TITLE: Year Of The Gentleman WEB DEBUT: Sept. 10, 2008 RELEASE DATE: Sept. 16, 2008 ONE 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 ...

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