Year of the Gentleman

Ne-Yo - Year of the Gentleman

Year of the Gentleman
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Artist: Ne-Yo
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-09-11
CD Release Date: 2008-09-16
Music Label: Def Jam
Product features:
  • NE-YO YEAR OF THE GENTLEMAN
Soundtracks:
  1. Closer
  2. Nobody
  3. Single
  4. Mad
  5. Miss Independent
  6. Why Does She Stay
  7. Fade Into The Background
  8. So You Can Cry
  9. Part Of The List
  10. Back To What You Know
  11. Lie To Me
  12. Stop This World

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Free Music Review: Enter....the Gentleman of the Year: Ne-Yo
Hit: 5 Stars

Ne-Yo's third disc entitled "Year of the Gentleman' could not have been delivered at a more perfect time. This musical guideline is perfect for those guys who aren't aware of how to treat the ladies. I'm not sure if Ne-Yo was trying to target a specific group, but I am able to identify with all of these songs due to personal events that transpired in 2008 in my life.

The album begins with "Closer" a feel-good song that's nice to listen to while out on the town. To date this song has gained Top Ten status on 5 Singles charts according to Billboard.com. "Nobody" is the next track and has a traditional Michael Jackson feel to it. It's a song that describes a female that has his full attention and no one else can hold a candle to her. This is undoubtedly a smooth way of saying that he is lusting after a woman. Next up is "Single" and it's letting the ladies know if their men is acting up, he's willing to be those guys' replacement-but only for the duration of the song. "Mad" is for those times couples are having a rough patch and wants to get things back on a happier note-especially before getting to sleep at night. "Miss Independent" is officially the modern woman's anthem and has been complemented perfectly with contagious instrumentals. I was blown away by "Why Does She Stay" because it's an honest question that a lot of men (and their women) could meditate on. Beautiful song-No Question!

Possibly the most emotional track, "Fade into the Background" is about a guy attending his ex's wedding and choosing not to get in the way of her happiness due to his personal and selfish reasons. Initially I was not feeling "So You Can Cry", but once I heard the story behind the song, I now fell this is the sweetest song on the album. It's a guy telling his female friend it's time to move on from a failed relationship in a gentle but firm manner. "Part of the List" is discussing all of those subtle but meaningful memories one has of his or her missed loved one. I'm really feeling this right now! "Back to What You Know" is telling a woman who isn't quite over her ex-boyfriend to return to him. It's apparent that she hasn't moved on or past the former guy. Very similar in concept, Ne-Yo's "Lie to Me" and Jazmine Sullivan's "Live a Lie", leads me to believe there is an epidemic of people wanting to go back in time to a less volatile period of their relationships. "Stop This World" is THE love song on this album. Because it has a very slow tempo, it took a minute for me to give it a chance. After finally listening to the lyrics, I've fallen in love with it.

Top 5 Songs
1. Part of the List
2. Fade into the Background
3. Why Does She Stay
4. Lie to Me
5. So You Can Cry

Year of the Gentleman Poster

"Closer," written by Ne-Yo and produced by Stargate, is the first single from Ne-Yo's upcoming third album, YEAR OF THE GENTLEMAN, set to arrive in stores June 24th. It is the follow-up to Because Of You (released May 2007), which received this year's Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album, and In My Own Words (February 2006) - both of which debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 and R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts.

In addition to his Contemporary R&B Album award, Ne-Yo earned four other Grammy nominations this year, including two for his collaboration with Rihanna, "Hate That I Love You" (which he co-wrote), namely Best R&B Song and Best R&B Performance Duo/Group; as well as Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for his #2 hit "Because Of You"; and Record of the Year for Beyoncé's "Irreplaceable" (which he co-produced). Ne-Yo's Grammy recognition followed up the UK's 13th annual MOBO (Music Of Black Origin) Awards in September 2007 - the only televised European Awards Show solely dedicated to urban music and culture - at which he won for Best Song ("Because Of You") and Best R&B Act.

Ne-Yo's RIAA platinum debut album In My Own Words was nominated for a Grammy as Best Contemporary R&B Album. It spun off three chart-topping hits, starting late-2005 with his debut Def Jam single, the #1 Grammy-nominated "So Sick," followed by "When You're Mad" and "Sexy Love." Ne-Yo capped 2006 as Male R&B/Hip-Hop Artist of the Year at the Billboard Music Awards. At the The 21st Annual Soul Train Music Awards in February 2007, Ne-Yo won the Coca-Cola Award for Best R&B/Soul or Rap new Artist for "Sexy Love."


If the mark of the skilful Lothario is the one who knows to always tell his lover what she wants to hear, surely Def Jam?s R&B sensation Ne-Yo--aka Los Angeles singer-songwriter Shaffer Chimere Smith--is one of the greatest of them all. On his third album, Year of the Gentleman, Chimere channels his hitmaking talents into a suite of R&B songs that are more respectful than rampant in their approach to the romancing. ?Single" is a song that reaches out to all the lonely girls,  Ne-Yo promising, ?I'll be your boyfriend til the song goes off," while the Stargate-produced ?Miss Independent," lit up by neon synthesizers, suggests Smith isn't too concerned with his own machismo to test out flipping the traditional gender roles, serenading a girl who's a player in her own right: ?Everything she got, you bet she bought it." The album is at its best with the central, two-song movement of ?Why Does She Stay" and ?Fade Into the Background"--the former finding Ne-Yo questioning his own neglectful nature over a backdrop of shimmering keys, the latter a sombre piece that finds our narrator accepting the news that his lover has found another with a rare, heart-rending magnanimity. --Louis Pattison

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