Here, even when Trey is raunchy, he’s careful to distinguish between real romance and meaningless nookie. The emo approach is a welcome departure from tracks like Trigga’s fly-out anthem “Foreign,” or the double-crossing “Disrespectful,” the types of licentious records upon which Trey has built his celebrity. Didn’t Trey tell you that he was a savage? Yes, he did, but on Tremaine, he also tells you how he feels about it - whether remorseful, afraid, or insecure. Ever wonder how it feels to be looked at like a piece of meat? The Virginia native paints a picture with a special sort of #firstworldproblems on the album’s opening lines: “I been stressed out / I ain’t feeling my best / All they want is my sex.” On the sensual “#1 Fan,” he fesses up to performance anxiety before bedding a dedicated follower, wondering, “Why am I so nervous?” He wants to settle down and give Mama Trey a grandkid on the conflicted “Playboy” - with its ’90s slow jam vibes and exquisite falsetto - if only he could bring himself to stop having sex with random women and lying to his girl. Trey welcomes you into his world on the 15-track project.

Yet while Trey shows vulnerability on his solid seventh studio album, Tremaine is far from a PG-13 affair. “I’m a savage, but I’m just trying some different shit lately,” he croons on “Picture Perfect.” It’s true: The 32-year-old R&Bone vet isn’t slinging his hypersexual shtick throughout. Trey Songz billed Tremaine The Album, his follow-up to 2014’s impressive Trigga, as a softer side of the guy who invented sex.

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