PASSION PAIN & PLEASURE
| Trey Songz
PASSION PAIN & PLEASURE
Passion, Pain & Pleasure (stylized as PASSION PAIN & PLEASURE) is the fourth studio album by American R&B recording artist Trey Songz; it was released on September 14, 2010. The album serves as a follow-up to his commercial breakthrough Ready (2009). Production for the album took place from March 2010 to July 2010 and was handled by several record producers, including his mentor Troy Taylor, Bryan-Michael Cox, Stargate and Mario Winans, among others. - Wikipedia
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Soul Tracks
It's the strongest and most balanced of all of Songz's album releases thus far. Highly Recommended.
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All Music
Trey -- who, for all his lyrical boasting, displays considerable vocal aptitude without flaunting it -- is as comfortable in front of a band as he is over a beat.
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Rolling Stone
Otherwise it’s just steady mackin’ over dull, airbrushed slow-jams, as Songz rhymes “just like a kid who found some candy” with “let me feel and find your panties.”
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PopMatterts
Trey Songz has proven here that he can do more than make a great party jam.
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BBC
Trey Songz is head and shoulders above many a lover-man peer.
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News One
“Passion” is softer and subtler than “Ready.” His fourth album – with the Sondheimian title “Passion, Pain & Pleasure” – doesn’t have the unbridled mania of last year’s breakthrough.
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Hot 107.5
There are a couple tracks on Passion Pain & Pleasure that I can do without, but all in all it is a good album that delivers classic R&B.
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92 Q Jams
The album is worth buying!
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Hip Hop DX
Passion, Pain, and Pleasure provides listeners 15 more tracks of high quality, modern R&B tailored toward the mainstream palate.
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Parle Magazine
The album’s sound is distinct and adds gravity to the singer’s repertoire of work.
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Planet Ill
The title of Passion, Pain & Pleasure is a pretty good summary of the emotions experienced when listening to the album. There is good, bad and ugly as Trey attempts to break free of his one dimensional style and grow.
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Baller Alert
Does Trey have the passion to keep his drive alive or will the pain of trying to create new avenue of sound bring him continuous pleasure throughout his career? Time will definitely tell, as for now, Mr. Songz is taking the world by storm one city at a time.
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LA Times Blog
“Passion” leaves you like a perfect one night stand –- you don’t have to remember the person, just the way he or she made you feel.
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Contact Music
Trey Songz should certainly be proud of his fourth album and is obviously growing as an artist. If you're looking for some quality r'n'b; look no further than 'Passion Pain & Pleasure'.
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Seattle Pi
In the tradition of R. Kelly, this is soundtrack material for midnight bedroom romps, and demonstrates that Trey is quickly coming into his own as a young R&B power player with a big appetite for sex and success.
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Quirk Tales
Passion, Pain, & Pleasure is a well rounded piece and I must say that as soon as I heard earlier this year that Trey was releasing an album just barely over a year after Ready, I was skeptical and downright against the whole thing.
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iHipHop
Trey Songz is hopping on his new-found fame with his follow up album to Ready.
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Im Freddie Mac
Overall, nice!
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Soul Elections
The score is right in the middle but I’m sure you will stand clearly on one side or the other depending on what you think of this style of music.
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MTV
With his latest release, Passion, Pain & Pleasure, Trey takes another big leap forward.
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Indie London
At close to an hour in running time, it is an arduous, unappealing listen that should come as a great cure for anyone having trouble sleeping.
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The McGill Tribune
R&B and hip-hop may be almost one and the same these days, but with only two songs featuring shared vocal time, Trey pulls his own weight from start to finish.
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