Blog: Idolator

Certain corners of the internet got very excited this weekend about The-Dream's new album, Love vs. Money , comparing it to some of the better work of his collaborator on "Shawty is a Ten," R. Kelly . I'm not here to take a side, necessarily, but I think a better comparison would be Idolator fave Ne-Yo's 2008 album Year of the Gentleman . Both are front-loaded with obvious singles that are good but not particularly compelling, followed by an arc of songs that present an intriguing and complex character entangled in romantic confusion, and it's these songs [...]