

Passion Pain & Pleasure doesn’t quite measure up to his previous album“Ready.” 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. It is purely Trey divulging his bedroom fantasies and love tales. I enjoyed that Trey Songz album isn’t flooded with features from overrated artists out of their sexual element. Passion Pain & Pleasure has some of that good old “Gotta Go” Trey you love and some new school flavor added to the mixture. Trey said he would make a million “Invented Sex’s” if he needed to and if you are a true Trey Songz fan you know that he has been making songs better than that for years now. “Already Taken” rounds out Passion Pain & Pleasure. “Guess who’s coming to dinner tonight?” The production on this song is flawless (and might I add my chair got a secret lap dance as I listened).

Trey rides the beat harder than an anxious groupie in his dressing room. The beat is somewhat exotic and fully erotic. If for some reason after the first twelve songs you aren’t turned on and drawn into Treys vibrato count on “Ding Dong” turning you on and all the way out. Trey’s soulful vocals work cohesively over the pounding beat. It’s the perfect mixture of the Passion Pain & Pleasure. Now here comes the pain.The second single off Three P’s “Can’t Be Friends” is a soulful ballad dedicated to the loss of a good friend to love’s unmerciful boundaries. It was released on Saturday, September 25th, 2010. “Bottoms up” is thrown into the mix and even though it’s one of the hottest tracks currently on the radio, it doesn’t quite fit the flow of the album.“Bottoms Up” is the ultimate club hit with one of Nicki Minaj’s most popular verses–“If a b*tch try to get cute, imma snuff her, throw a lot of money then yell f*ck her” but it should have been a bonus on the album. Bump Freaky Dance (Remix), the latest cut from Obie Trice featuring Trey Songz & Swizz Beatz on the assist.

The mid tempo track “Alone” has a ‘feel-good’ vibe to it even though Trey has to use a napkin to scoop some eye candy’s number from the club. My hands rubbing on your skin, let’s go hard don’t hold it in.”) “Love Faces” is an aural experience from the opening line( “Pulled up in a drop-top Benz hit the horn two times and you walked outside”) to the closing line (“Messing up the bed while you sweating out your perm and making love faces. Trey Songz is among the few artists who have mastered the technique of erotic story-telling.
