Ne-yo said he took a break because he felt ‘underappreciated’

(Ne-Yo's latest music video for 'She Knows' is set in a
strip club. Photo: Filed)
Ne-Yo has said he took a break from music because
he felt 'underappreciated'.
The 'She Knows' singer has been on hiatus for two
years as he felt he needed more recognition for his
pioneering sound and was happy to see people still
'cared' while he was out of the spotlight.
Asked for the reasons behind his hiatus, he said: 'You
want to give people the chance to miss you,
especially if you're in a place where you feel
underappreciated, which I gotta say is something I
dealt with.
'Because I'm not this super-boisterous guy who runs
around telling people [what I've done], people forget.
'Before 'Closer', there was no R&B cats doing EDM or
dance music, it just wasn't happening, 'Closer' was
the first one.
'I didn't get any credit for that, I'm not crying or
complaining but when you don't feel like people are
paying attention in the way they should, you go away
to see if they care – and people cared, so I'm back.'
Ne-Yo's latest music video for 'She Knows' is set in a
strip club and the 32-year-old singer wanted to show
how pole dancers are 'athletes' who can do things
that 'average women' can't.
Speaking to 'BBC Newsbeat', he said: 'Everybody has
seen a strip club video.
'The track, when I first heard it, I was like 'This is
something I have to hear in a strip club'. So we knew
we wanted to go down that route, but we didn't want
it to be typical.
'And on top of that, we wanted to show the art form
that is pole dancing, it is not as easy as they make it
look, those women are athletes, the average woman
can not get up there and do that.'

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