Ne-Yo was warned about Nashville’s nation music group

Ne-Yo’s newest nation music quest triggered concern earlier than he even began out.

The R&B star, born Shaffer Smith, needed to work via a adverse premonition concerning the Nashville music scene bestowed upon him by mates within the business.

“It came with all these warnings and all this fear that people were trying to put on me,” Ne-Yo stated throughout an look on Rolling Stone’s “Nashville Now” podcast.

“They’re not real accepting of anything outside of what they do over there. In Nashville, it’s really cliquey, and if you don’t know this person or if you haven’t done this … I hate to admit it, but I came out here kind of expecting something like that.”

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Despite what he heard about Music City, Ne-Yo’s expertise has been the “exact opposite” whereas engaged on his as-yet-untitled “country-inspired” album.

“Every single person that I’ve worked with out here has embraced what I’m trying to do with open arms,” Ne-Yo declared.

“Everybody’s interested and intrigued about how I’m going to take what I do and what country music is and fuse them together, and what that could sound like. Everybody’s just been real receptive.”

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He added, “So I’m waiting to meet whoever the hell it is that is going to be the bane of my Nashville existence. This person has not reared their head yet.”

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The “Closer” singer was so fallacious about his notion of Music City, that he is debating placing down everlasting roots.

“I’m debating on whether or not I should move to Nashville,” he stated. “It’s looking like that because I’m absolutely loving it out here, loving the atmosphere, I love writing out here.”

Ne-Yo additionally mirrored on the influence nation music has had on his life earlier than praising the vulnerability in Dolly Parton’s ’73 anthem, “Jolene.”

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“That’s such a human song, you know what I mean? It’s not because it’s not about, you know, the stroke of the ego, which is kind of what a lot of music is today … she’s literally begging another woman not to steal her man,” he stated. “Everybody’s too cool for a song like that nowadays, you know what I mean?

“I simply love that nation music is daring sufficient to go there and actually present emotion … human emotion. You do not gotta be the best man within the room in a rustic music.”

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He added, “You might have a canine in a truck and a daily 9 to five, and nation music is celebrating you.”

“In R&B music, you have to be the sexiest man and you have to get the lady each time, and also you gotta have all the cash … and it is like, that isn’t the truth of 80% of the world. That’s not actual, that is not what it’s.”