Ne-Yo

Artiestinformatie

Geboortedatum	18-10-1979
Land	Verenigde Staten

Ne-Yo (echte naam Shaffer Chimere Smith) is een Amerikaanse R&B zanger en songwriter. Zijn doorbraak kwam in 2004, toen het door hem geschreven nummer Let me love you, gezongen door Mario, wereldwijd een grote hit werd. In 2006 kwam zijn debuutalbum In my own words uit.

Zijn albums volgen elkaar erg snel op: in 2007 kwam zijn tweede album Because of you en in 2008 Year of the gentleman.
Ook als songwriter is hij erg druk bezig, hij schreef hits voor onder meer Mario, Chris Brown, Snoop Dogg, Rihanna, Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Usher, Janet Jackson, Anastacia en Ciara.

In 2011 scoort hij, samen met Pitbull, Nayer en Afrojack zijn eerste nummer 1-hit met Give Me Everything. Het nummer zou zijn grootste hit worden. Turn Around, zijn samenwerking met Connor Maynard, is in 2012 zijn laatste en 13e Top 40-hit. In 2014 werkt hij opnieuw samen met Pitbull op Times Of Our Lives, dat in februari 2015 in de Top 40 komt. Ook verschijnt dan zijn zesde studioalbum, Non Fiction, waarvan de single Coming With You als voorloper verschijnt.

In 2019 is Ne-Yo te horen op Unlove You, een track op het zevende album van Armin van Buuren. In 2022 brengt hij het album Self Explanatory uit. In maart 2023 strikken Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike hem en de Mexicaanse zangeres Danna Paola voor de single Mexico.

Songtekst

All my life
And the hereafter
I've never seen
Seen one like you

You're a knife
Sharp and deadly
And it's me
That you cut into

But I don't mind
In fact I like it
Thought I'm terrified
I'm turned on
But scared of you

[chorus]
Ohh
She's a monster
Beautiful monster
Beautiful monster
But I don't mind

Ohh
And I need her
Said I need her
Beautiful monster
But I don't mind, oh

No I don't mind
(said I don't mind
I don't I don't mind)
No I don't mind
(said I don't mind
I don't I don't mind)
No I don't mind
(said I don't mind
I don't I don't mind)
Ohh
No I don't mind

In her eyes
There's love and fire
And my heart
She's burning through
But I don't mind
In fact I like it
Though I'm terrified
I'm turned on
But scarde of you

[chorus]
She's a monster
(she's a monster)
Beautiful monster
(beautiful monster)
Beautiful monster
(beautiful monster, yeah)
But I don't mind
(I don't mind)

And I need her
(and I need her)
Said I need her
(said I need her)
Beautiful monster
(whoa oh, whoa oh)
But I don't mind
(I don't mind I
don't I don't mind)
No I don't mind

Playing with my heart
And she's playing
With my mind
And I don't mind
I don't I don't mind
No I don't mind
I don't I don't mind
No I don't mind
I don't I don't mind
No I don't mind
I don't I don't mind
I don't mind
I don't I don't mind
(I don't mind)
I don't mind
I don't I don't mind
(said I don't mind)
I don't mind
I don't I don't mind
(and I don't mind)
Beautiful monster

[chorus]
She's a monster
(she's a monster
Beautiful monster
(beautiful monster)
Beautiful monster
(whoa oh)
But I don't mind
(but I don't mind
said I don't mind)
And I need her
(and I need her)
Said I need her
(said I need her)
Beautiful monster
(beautiful monster yeah)
But I don't mind
(ohh, ohh)
No I don't mind
(said I don't mind
I don't I don't mind)
No I don't mind
(I don't mind I don't
I don't mind)
(I don't mind I don't
I don't mind)
Ohh
No I don't mind