Passion, Pain & Pleasure

Passion, Pain & Pleasure

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Twenty-five-year-old Trey Songz made ladies squeal last spring with a sultry _MTV Unplugged_ cover of Kings of Leon's "Use Somebody." The R&B smoothie's fourth record


has no such surprises, notwithstanding a brassy, helium-voiced cameo from Nicki Minaj on the catchy, booze-celebrating "Bottoms Up." 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." Yes, he invented sex, as an earlier


single noted. But when he declares, "The only thing inside my mind is 'mm-hmm,' " it's hard not to say, _"Really?"_