Somebody slow down the song…
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Crystal Leww: Haha, when he starts singing “slow motion” that’s when the song slows down! Haha, get it?!
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Alfred Soto: “Tonight’s the Night” with laptop beat and forked tongue vocal.
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Brad Shoup: Last year, Tank did an interview with Black Hollywood Thoughts, and he talked a bit about the state of R&B. At the time, the pullquote (“Robin Thicke and Justin Timberlake are doing R&B music better than us. We need to catch up.”) was pretty inarguable for casual music fans. But 20/20 II‘s singles fell the fuck off, and Thicke — a guy who previously made R&B, not crossovers — clowned himself in a deposition, on the charts and in public. But you know who’s been doing some good work this whole time? Trey Songz is a man who loves his voice… Tank was concerned about his peers making tunes for the club or the bedroom, but even in a song about being in the bedroom before the club, Songz’s vocal is the real subject. Those coos are transposed from some shaggy ’70s soft-rock cut, the gently-Zapped whoas in the chorus are a perfect blinding fog. This is the kind of thing Thicke likes to make, but he requires too much care. Trey’s never sounded so effortless.
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Thomas Inskeep: To summarize: take a drink, take a toke, let me tongue you, take off your clothes. And all to acoustic guitar accompaniment. Who the fuck does he think he is, Jack Johnson? Ew.
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Will Adams: A guitar-based verse sets up a smoky coffeehouse, a throbbing chorus throws us into the club, those snare rolls are strung out: where is this all happening? Trey Songz doesn’t know, either.
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Micha Cavaseno: UNF. That hook, the walls of gelatinous warble sliding borderline Troutmanese across the song’s barriers. It deserves so much better than this sort of middle of the road slow-jam that sounds more like it could be a Maroon 5 after-thought that Trigga had managed to sneak out of a studio. All in all, not his best effort, but I bet it’ll do well.
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