Many critics pointed toward Sheeran’s disingenuous treatment of women on Divide, and many of Tremaine's most regrettable tracks sound like they could’ve been written by Sheeran, pairing hints of guitar with cringe-worthy wordplay, that aren't as kind to Songz' romantic partners as he'd hope. Songz spends most of the album telling harmless boy-chases-girl stories with above-average gender politics, from bubbly lead single Nobody Else Like You to the album’s excellent Usher-channeling closer Priceless. Even on songs where he hints at his lothario status, Songz promises he’s a better man than his behavior makes him seem, as heard on Playboy: “Don’t know why I’m still kissing girls that I don’t love, still stumbling out of these clubs, still I’m just so hard to trust, don’t know why I’m still a playboy.”īut Tremaine falls into a similar trap as Sheeran does with Divide, portraying two sensitive men trying to prove they’re special, while betraying hints of their toxic masculinity along the way.

And where the sonic similarities between Songz and Sheeran end, the “nice guy” pervasiveness between their two new albums begin, a term that's recently come to define men who claim to be more worthy of women's affections then their lesser peers, yet often are misogynistic in practice.

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