We were asked to change the chorus so that the line ‘I invented sex’ came earlier. “It was said the chorus was complicated and wouldn’t do well in research at radio. It actually leaked, and after they saw the reception it got, that’s when they decided to add it.” “Certain people at the label didn’t believe in the record,” Songz added. “He demoed it, but because of politics and bullshit.
“We wrote the song and sent it over to because I thought the song was a hit and a good fit,” songwriter Carlos “Los DaMystro” McKinney says. “If you listen to the ‘Ready’ album, there’s ‘Love Lost,’ ‘Black Roses,’ ‘Yo Side of the Bed’ - all songs that had nothing to do with sex, but were overlooked because they weren’t the first few singles.” Summer of 2009 was big for Trey Songz but did he almost miss his window? The single “I Invented Sex,” was the major start of his sexual saga but according to the songwriter, the song almost didnât make the album. “People say this album was highly sexual, but the first two albums were just as sexual,” he says.
They were well accepted but not as much as the records on ‘Ready.’ The singles were purposely very sexual to capture people’s attention.” But is âReadyâ more sexual than his previous two albums, âI Gotta Make Itâ and âTrey Dayâ? Trey says not at all, they were just as sexual. As far as changing his look and music to better his public image, Songz says “The public likes generic more than they like to admit, so that’s what I gave them - I gave them sexual singles and they ate it up.” Adding, “I gave them two whole albums before this one - on one I talked about a mother’s love for her son and a father not being there, and on the other I made a song about safe sex. Crooner Trey Songz recently caught up with Billboard for a cover story in which he talks about his road to being a sex symbol, remaining true to his artistic creativity and what the future holds.