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On the subject of Ne-Yo penned gems.
I hate "Let Me Love You", the song is killed for me by how trash his voice is. 90s to 00s R&B got ethered because there was a sea of guys who didn't know how to sing after the wake of New Jack Swing and you saw this weird split where people with gospel quartet training didn't go into into R&B (the weird world of like, Kirk Franklin style big biz gospel had started so you could easily get indoctrinated) and you had garbage harmonizing groups. Boyz ii Men, atrocious, should've been sent off a cliff before an album ever came out. Aaron Hall, I love, but has some sort of psychotic disorder where he hears all notes in sharp with vibrato for no fucking reason. John Legend is like this but worse.
Devante Swing from Jodeci once broke this down in an interview where he talked about still trying to construct songs compositionally and get away from the screaming soloing style (see: K-Ci without Devante), but he always had to fight K-Ci and Jojo's instincts. The dude from Mint Condition also never wrote in this style, which is why Neo-Soul people claim him even though Mint Condition are basically a New Jack Swing band.
Anyway after that guys were into the songwriting, placement, lyrical thing. Or they were just like, kids who grew up wanting to be MJ and Usher, that model of the dancing R&B singer. Dru Hill obviously followed that in the boyband model, as well as B2K. But again, the singing in these groups were often useless. Even Slim from 112, that weird toothless yodeling hillbilly voice of his was great, but it wasn't great 'singing'... And the R&B Industry learned really quick nobody wants Strong Masculine R&B Singers at that point, because it always looked contrived. Tank and Jaheim, for all their talents, their insistent need to prove they were "thuggish", was stupid and constantly held them back. Trey Songz weird insistence on the du-rags for the first two albums and trying to convince people he wasn't fey was comical and misguided, but he got into his whole relentless idiocy thing and that's why he ended up thriving.
Early 00s is about Ne-Yo, then mid to late period 00s you have Dream for a minute and then Trigga for me. From Trey you get Jeremih, Weeknd and so on.