Realizing Every Dream is at the same end of the contract with Def Jam and its debut at Universal Motown. He is now not only a standing contract R'n'B singer, he is simultaneously also Senior Vice President of A & R. This year, Smith has become 30 years old, and in addition to the music he enjoys obviously family life with his partner and their two children, which is reflected especially in the slow jams on his new album.
The three-time Grammy winner and tipped with gold and platinum singer writes the lyrics of his songs again predominantly completely even and delivers thus not only an authentic, but also a very varied work, which proposes the predecessor Libra Scale by a mile! By his own testimony, he wanted his fans to show the different facets of his work, and attract mainly the concertgoers in order from beginning to end in its spell. And so you can then either abfeiern to uptempo number Let Me Love You, or take the same time Miss Right a man in the arm, one has love.
DC for several tracks to the Norwegian production team Stargate shows responsibility, the guys have already worked on Libra Scale with him. The beauty of his songs is the fact that he never tried to force something or to turn into the red zone. Whenever you seem to believe it turn on the pointer, he slows and the beat of sent and returns to the earth. Jealous is a typical, warm R'n'B song but sounds very modern and emotional on the one hand, classic, on the other. Ne-Yo has not made the mistake of overloading his album with features that Wiz Khalifa and Tim McGraw we hear only two guests, but do their job more than tidy and not adhere to the main characters disturbing strange sounds.
Among the strongest numbers in addition to the mentioned include Be The One (Stargate) and Forever Now, where the Bingo Players have mitgebastelt. Here it is different, even though the dance floor burns clearly, many other US acts, which have the Europop-story misunderstood something. But once you have actually briefly hold their breath. Shut Em Down has to show at the beginning of striking parallels to be a hit of Usher. Has on the deluxe version of the album, there are also two strong tracks from Salaam Remi and the dance floor grenade Let's Go, the producer Calvin Harris also packed the same time on his own album.
R.ealizing E.very D.ream can confidently among the best R'n'B / pop albums this year, the "Skip" button on the CD player will no doubt completely ignored here and rather bothersome !