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videodrone

Lil Wayne Embarks On A Brief Constitutional; Ne-Yo Follows Along


Lil Wayne's video for "A Milli" has a pretty straightforward concept: Watch as hip-hop's newest superstar walks to the set of his next video (which, um, looks to be set in the same hotel as Fatboy Slim's "Weapon Of Choice"), rapping all the way, even during bathroom breaks. The "Don't Tread On Me" hat is a nice touch, too. But did you know that Ne-Yo also released a clip for his version of the track? And it has Busta Rhymes in it and everything. More »

9:00 AM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Maura Johnston
755 views, 6 comments

Latest by n/a: this song is incredibly boring. more »

fantasy music league

I Beg Your Pardon, But The Time For A Response Song To An Old Pop Chestnut Is Long Overdue


If a cheeky keyboard-driven outfit were to craft a peppy minor hit out of an 18-year-old soft-rock song, similar to the way the Canadian outfit Kon Kan transformed Lynn Anderson's "I Never Promised You A Rose Garden" into their U.S. top 20 track "I Beg Your Pardon," what song would you pick to be rescued from the pop history books? Feel free to ponder this question while noting the lyrical back-and-forth between the Kon Kan track and the Anderson song, which I've placed after the jump. More »

3:00 PM on Wed Jul 2 2008
By Maura Johnston
212 views, 7 comments

Latest by wakeupbomb: The Suicide Machines did a cover of Rose Garden too...or maybe they did a cover of I Beg Your Pardon...either way it's pretty good. more »

While Coldplay's Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends remains the biggest full-length in the United Kingdom, the band's term limit/iPod anthem of the same name has been knocked from the top of the singles chart by Ne-Yo's "Closer," a disco doozy so sweet we couldn't stop posting it in April. "Closer" has yet to even reach the top 20 in America, so its European success is more than welcome. [Billboard]

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Ne-Yo is denying claims that his pretty decent "A Milli" freestyle was meant as a shot at Chris Brown. "That is not a Chris Brown dis," he told MTV. "I'm not shooting at nobody... Chris, I ain't shooting at you. That's my homeboy. It is not a Chris Brown dis!" OK, so then who is the opening line "To whom it may concern, you might sell a million more than me/ But you ain't got a million more than me, let's be real" directed at? Taylor Swift? Chad Kroeger? [MTV Newsroom Blog]

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Ne-Yo tries an "A Milli" freestyle of his own, and the apparent target of his rhymes is none other than Chris Brown. Yes, he raps; he did say he was bored with R & B, after all. He has kind of a high voice, but I like how unhinged he sounds. [Year Of The Gentleman Blog]

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to r&b or not to r&b?

Ne-Yo Asks: Why Are You Not Bored With R&B?

Ne-Yo isn't letting the lukewarm response to "Closer" get in the way of his ambitions to "switch it up, try to add to the 'urban' sound, expanding the minds and outlooks of music lovers." He wants you to know that he's bored (bored!) with R&B and, frankly, can't understand why anyone else isn't. "Me, I have a very short attention span, always have, so I get bored EXTRA easy. So with everybody doin' the same ol' thing, wearing the same ol' thing, sounding the same..........MY question is, how is everybody else NOT bored??" Good question, Ne-Yo! Some answers, based on my favorite R&B tracks of late. More »

2:30 PM on Mon Jun 9 2008
By Anthony Miccio
441 views, 14 comments

Latest by n/a: @cosmiclove: oooh, that one feels so good! more »

Today In Pushed-Back Albums Ne-Yo's Year Of The Gentleman has had its release date moved from June 23 to Aug. 5, thanks to the country's insanely lukewarm response to the really quite good "Closer," which has sold 49,000 digital copies in its first three weeks of release and is at No. 51 on the Hot Digital Songs chart. Just to show you how messed up the priorities of the iTunes-buying public is, here's a selection of tracks that outsold "Closer" last week: the new Colbie Caillat single; Trace Adkins' charity track; and that Ferras song about Hollywood not being America that ended its American Idol swan-song run weeks ago. Booo, America. Booooo.[defjam.com / AceShowbiz.com]

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oh boy

Lindsay Lohan's Long Island Roots Are Showing All Over Her New Single

Another Lindsay Lohan album? Why not, when everything else about the music business is in Titanic-redecoration mode? Thankfully, she seems to have given up on the overly parenthetical titles for "Bossy," the first song from the album to leak. From the bratty lyrics to the Shep Pettibone dime-store synths, the Ne-Yo-written/Stargate-produced track sounds like it was conceived during a particularly debaucherous night of cruising Hempstead Turnpike, hanging out at Spit, and filling up on hangover-prevention food at the Empress Diner. Make of that judgment what you will; I happen to think that the results are completely acceptable for, say, a late-night trip down the Northern State Parkway. (And I'd like to give special props to whatever studio engineer had to scrape the cigarettes-and-whiskey edge of La Lohan's voice—she sounds like a changed woman!) [MINIMP3CENTER]

2:30 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Maura Johnston
320 views, 9 comments

Latest by narymary: Her 5 note range is amazing! more »

videodrome

Ne-Yo's "Closer," Now With Video!

This is the third time in about a week we've posted a link to Ne-Yo's "Closer," but a) now there's a video and b) it's a damn good song. Video's addictive, too. Between this and Gnarls Barkley's "Run" I think everyone should rock zebra stripes. Ne-Yo even gets to look into the camera a bit (without sunglasses!), even though Scott Summers here risks burning a hole through the screen with those eyebrows. Dude should have to put a dollar in a jar every time he touches the brim of his hat. [YouTube]

5:30 PM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Anthony Miccio
612 views, 2 comments

Latest by DeeJayQueue: @Matt Cibula: Whole-heartedly agreed. I cringed as I clicked play, recoiling for what I thought was another cookie cutter R&B crap song churned out by another cookie cutter R&B "artist" but what I got was something actually pretty original. more »

casting calls

Ne-Yo To Bring The Drama To "All My Children"

Ne-Yo will be the latest urban artist to cross over to the soap-opera world on May 21 and 22, when he performs on All My Children; he'll be the featured musical entertainment at the wedding of two Pine Valley residents, and all won't go according to plan on the romance front, natch. What will proceed the way the script intends is the cross-promotion for Ne-Yo's forthcoming album Year Of The Gentleman, from which the evil genius crooner's wedding toasts will be drawn. "Stop This World" is described by the album's press release as "embracing Lennon and McCartney with the same vigor as Marvin Gaye and Michael Jackson... [it] should be hailed as one of the most beautiful love songs in years," while the other track on the docket is "Closer," in which the production duo Stargate dispenses with its "Irreplaceable" strummed-guitar template and brings the Eurodisco tension. Oh, Ne-Yo, you really do know how to get me excited. A YouTube rip of "Closer" is after the jump. More »

8:50 AM on Fri Apr 25 2008
By Maura Johnston
387 views, 5 comments

Latest by Maura Johnston: @Halfwit: aw, i love ne-yo. (plus, who, like, has an attention span these days?) more »

upcoming releases

Ne-Yo To Ape Billy Joel, Sing The Word "Calamari" On New Album

Ne-Yo's planning something a little different for Year Of The Gentlman, his third album in as many years. "There's some stuff on there that sounds like something the Beatles might've done. There's some stuff on there that sounds like something Billy Joel might've done. I can't do just straight urban music no more, because to be completely honest with you, I'm a little bored with it. I'm just moving with what music excites me now." While "What Would Billy Joel Do?" isn't a game I'd recommend to anyone, Ne-Yo's earned some faith after making my favorite single of 2007 and one of the best albums of 2006. Judging from the oft-quoted "I won't attend your pity party/I'd rather go have calamari," from "So You Can Cry," maybe he's just into "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant." More »

10:30 AM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Anthony Miccio
307 views, 4 comments

Latest by encyclopediablack: Ne-Yo doing stuff The Beatles would have done...yeah, I buy it. more »

leak of the day

R. Kelly Is Really Really Really (Really) Pissed At Ne-Yo

ARTIST: R. Kelly
TITLE: "I'm A Beast"
WEB DEBUT: March 3, 2008 More »
war of the giant r&b egos

Ne-Yo Sues R. Kelly For Being Less Awesome Than Ne-Yo

If you thought Ne-Yo was gonna be satisfied with griping to the press when he was dismissed from R. Kelly's tour—claiming that Kelly was jealous of his stage presence and the screams he got from the girlies in the front rows—well, think again. He's now looking to set legal precedent that his live show is hotter than Kelly's by suing the R. for illegally terminating the contract thanks to Kelly's green eyes over the "audience's and critics' more favorable reaction" to Ne-Yo's moves/pipes/youthful elan. Plus he kinda wants all those hundreds of thousands of dollars he was promised. More »

11:00 AM on Thu Jan 3 2008
By jharv
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No. 11: Rihanna And Ne-Yo Make Neediness Sound Like The Best Thing Ever Because when your better half sings so sweet, it's easy to overlook diminishing relationship returns.

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straw polls

Obama Vs. Clinton: Whose Musical Taste Sucks More?

So Barry Obama's big benefit shindig coming up next week in California features musical endorsements from Ne-Yo (yay!), the Goo Goo Dolls (uh), Nicole Scherzinger (ack), and will.i.am (dear lord no). Meanwhile, Hilary Clinton has recently ditched Celine Dion's "You And I" (holy shit) as her campaign song in favor of Big Head Todd And The Monsters' "Blue Sky" (could be worse, right?). Forgetting their opinions about, like, stuff salient to running a country, this does not particularly fill us with hope for the future. (Even the Republicans are showing better taste this time out; for instance, did you know Mitt Romney's campaign tune is "I Get Around"*?) So we put it to you, a year or so early, to decide who you would vote for based solely on these less than stellar musical track records. More »

12:30 PM on Wed Dec 5 2007
By jharv
4,086 views, 44 comments

Latest by Jfrankparnell: I must abstain. America will not mature as a country until a serious candidate picks the Minutemen's "This Ain't No Picnic" as their theme or a recreational listening choice. Although I would also vote for a candidate based solely on their more »

No. 40: Ne-Yo Will Not Be Entering Sex Rehab Anytime Soon But if the No. 40 song of the year is to be believed, he has no problem sending any ladies who're lucky enough to share his bed straight to the world of 12-step mantras.

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Those of you who are bummed out that Ne-Yo won't be opening for R. Kelly anymore can take some small comfort in the fact that he'll be performing during the televised portion of tomorrow's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. And Dolly Parton is on the bill, too. Am I being a little too pie-in-the-sky when I say that a meeting between the two could, God willing, serve as the catalyst for "Islands In The Stream '08"? [Hartford Courant]

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clara peller dept.

Ne-Yo: Cocky Punk Or Cocky Punk With More Talent Than R. Kelly?

R. Kelly's concert tour had a rough start as it was, with all the mandated court appearances cutting into showtime and whatnot. Now it's losing its opening acts. "Let them tell it, I was removed from the R. Kelly tour because of contractual agreements not being met," Ne-Yo said in an interview with BET. "But that's absolutely false." Seems that, fittingly for an R. Kelly tour, there was some Oedipal shit* going down behind the scenes. More »

9:15 AM on Wed Nov 21 2007
By jharv
602 views, 7 comments

Latest by n/a: Well now I feel less bad about missing this show. But still kinda bad. more »