An 'Inevitable' EP

Trey Songz has always had a smooth voice and popularity with the ladies, but he’s come a long way since his boyish cornrows in the “Gotta Make It” days. Now, he’s a worldwide sex symbol who has come into his own and might very well be the Marvin Gaye of our generation with songs like “Love Faces” and “I Invented Sex.” 

His new EP, “Inevitable,” contains only five songs, but it does a lot with them. Particularly, it begins to move away from his typical love (or making-love) songs and sounds more like a compilation of hooks from rap songs.

It’s unclear if this is just a fun project that allows him to explore other styles he’s dropping to fill the gap before his new album or if this is a preview of the new direction he’s taking his music. For fans’ sakes, I hope it’s not the latter.

His voice sounds clean and alluring as usual, and the beats are nice, but the lyrics are weak and too contoured to the mainstream in many cases. It lacks the passion and pleasure we’re used to from Trey.

There’s no doubt that “Outside” is a love song, but it shows him trying to talk a girl into having sex with him outside. How romantic? 

The only true love song on the EP that sounds uniquely Trey is “Sex Ain’t Better Than Love.” It has the technical complexity and powerful vocals we’ve grown to expect from him and that sappy “perfect for a road trip with my love” feeling.