Blog: Idolator

The title piqued my interest. Well, I figured, he's going ahead and making it explicit: "grown and sexy," that restrained-allure masterwork of recent phrasemaking, and the title of the 2005 album by Babyface (to whom we'll return), would be the outright theme of Ne-Yo's third album. I figured I'd like it. He'd been a great singles guy but I never got all the way into the first two albums, but maybe I would with this one. I hadn't thought much about "Closer" either way, but my hunch demanded I buy the album day of release. I played it five times [...]