Ne-Yo shares his new album “Self-Explanatory”.
Ne-Yo is back with some new music as he finally released his eighth studio album “Self-Explanatory”. It is his first project in four years, and a follow-up to 2018’s “Good Man“.
The project is laced with previously released tracks “You Got The Body”, “Don’t Love Me”, “What If”, “U 2 Luv” with Jeremih and “Stay Down” with Yung Bleu. The album contains 13 songs in total with additional guest appearances from Trippie Redd on “Push Up” and Zae France on “Layin’ Low”.
The body knows what to do when it feels it. The soul knows what to do. And with little to no explanation…because the music speaks for itself.
LADIES AND GENTS…
I give you SELF EXPLANATORY.
You know me, you know what I do.
I love y’all!🎼❤️😜💰 https://t.co/QokV7RbY5j pic.twitter.com/le7UzSrXhR— NE-YO (@NeYoCompound) July 15, 2022
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“What I want people to take from this album is just music to live life to, music to feel some emotion to,” he told Jalen Rose. “We got to a place in music where the emotion kinda died down a little bit. Everybody’s real tough, everybody’s real cool. People are afraid to be vulnerable. That vulnerability is what connects us, that ability to lock into another person’s heart.”
In an interview with Haute Living, he revealed that he started recording this project in 2018. “I started this album in 2018, and I was moving through it a little more slowly than normal,” he said. “The pandemic really threw a monkey wrench in everything, for everybody — myself included. I wasn’t doing a lot of recording at the time because I was just trying to figure out what the hell was actually going on. It was a moment.”
“I’ve never been in this business just for the sake of selling records; that’s not my job. I had to remind myself of the reasons I fell in love with music in the first place and not worry about where the album was going to fall — be it urban radio or pop radio — that nothing else really matters when it comes down to the creation of art.”
Stream the full thing below.
