Ne-Yo Gets Crowd On Its Feet (And One Fan Back To Ground) At NYC Show
Posted on May 14, 2007 | Filed Under RnB Music News
Fabolous joins R&B crooner onstage for new collabo ‘Make Me Better.’
NEW YORK — Panties and roses thrown at their feet, the occasional fan who darts past security and makes it onstage: Performers generally keep entertaining audiences through it all. On Saturday, however, Ne-Yo was stopped in his tracks.
The man with the #1 album in the country, Because of You, was 15 minutes into his headlining show at Utopia’s Paradise Theater in the Bronx when he told his DJ to end the music. Somehow, a woman had made her way onto a structure above the stage and had scaled it almost to the top, about a 35-foot drop to the floor. During “When You’re Mad,” the third song in Ne-Yo’s set, security guards began to convene. Someone whispered into Ne-Yo’s ear, and the R&B star looked up. He then signaled his DJ to be silent and addressed the fan. Read more
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Ne-Yo reflects on the current state of R&B
Posted on April 27, 2007 | Filed Under RnB Music News
As he sits in the back of an SUV ferrying him from one recording studio to the next, Ne-Yo reflects on the current state of R&B — and determines that the genre is suffering from serious malaise.
“People just forgot what it was supposed to be, what it was supposed to feel like, the essence of what it is,” he says forcefully. “It’s a vibe, it’s a feeling — it’s supposed to make you feel something, as opposed to, `Let me go eeh-eeh-eeh-eeh-eeh and put a beat behind it and see if people will dance to it.’ Come on man. There’s more to it than that.” Read more
Ne-Yo Upsets Men With Irreplaceable Anthem
Posted on April 4, 2007 | Filed Under RnB Music News
R&B sensation Ne-Yo has upset his male friends by penning girl power anthem Irreplaceable for Beyonce Knowles.
Knowles reveals Ne-Yo has been singled out for writing the catchy tune, which spent the first two months of 2007 at number one in America.
She claims some men are upset because Irreplaceable is one of those songs that empower women and give them the strength to kick bad boyfriends out of their lives. Read more
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