Release Date: 6/18/2008
Recording Date: 6/2008
Tracks: 12
Length: 00:48:41 Hrs
Label: Universal Japan
Type: CD,LP
- Genre/Styles
- Urban, Contemporary R&B
Album Tracks (12)
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What the Critics Say
Apart from a little more drama, a notion set with the desperate urgency of opening track "Closer," not much makes Year of the Gentleman, Ne-Yo's third album in as many years, all that different from In My Own Words or Because of You. If there are any real shake-ups in the songwriter/singer's m.o., they are subtle, not glaring, typically evident only in the production wrinkles brought by his collaborators. Had each album been separated by a few years of inactivity, this lack of change might be an issue, but since breaking out with Mario's "Let Me Love You" in 2004, Ne-Yo has been nothing if not steady and consistent, a constant presence in the R&B chart who probably could not devise a gimmick if his career depended upon it -- unless you hold those natural and often uncanny Michael Jackson vocalisms, as present as ever throughout highlight "Nobody," against him. What makes the album slightly less satisfying than Ne-Yo's first two albums is that the ballads are slightly sappier and overwrought. The odds are in his favor, however, that no one has written a more gorgeous song about slothful self-loathing. That song, "Why Does She Stay," forms the front end of a two-track patch of glorious gloom -- the album's center, both literally and figuratively -- complemented by "Fade into the Background," where he watches the one who got away get married. ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide
Recent Comments
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8/10/2008 12:37 PM
does anyone know his newest song on the radio?? and it's NOT Closer. Thanks =)
7/30/2008 9:50 PM
The name of the song was "Stop the World" and I don't think they have released the track list of his new album.... I have searched everywhere. If anyone can find, please let me know.
7/25/2008 11:00 PM
Type your own comment herei i would like to know the name of the song that ne-yo sang on the soapopera ''all my children'
7/3/2008 2:36 PM
Can someone just give me the names of the tracks on the cd. please!





8/25/2008 5:29 PM
this is 4 ellen8874. yuh can go on limewire. just type in the his name and the name of the album