He often channels that positive energy into his music. So I kind of grew up always feeling like no matter what happened negative - it was temporary," said Ne-Yo. But the sun is about to come out.' That's what she would always say. "It has a lot to do with the way I was brought up.My mom was kind of the picture of a blue-collar mom, and her catch phrase was, 'This is temporary.
Ne-Yo says his goal was to create an uptempo song - essentially "something that felt good." It reflects the hitmaker's approach to life, which tends to be a positive one.
There's a lot of crummy things going on in the world right now and there's a lot of reasons to not be happy." "Even if you didn't care what the words were talking about we wanted the music to be a kind of track that you will hear and it will make you feel good," he said. "And I took the ideas and turned them into 'Every Day with Love.'" "I would just read through, and the ones that I found most intriguing.the ones that really spoke to me - those are the ones I used," he said. To create "Every Day with Love," Ne-Yo poured through fan submissions sent to him via Twitter and on a dedicated website. Ne-Yo and Sonna Rele debut new fan-sourced single as a part imlovinit24 Global Event at the Avalon on March 24, 2015, in Los Angeles. The song, also cultivated via fan submissions, is now part of the McDonald's imlovinit24 initiative celebrating 24 moments of joy in 24 hours with consumers in 24 cities around the globe. On Tuesday, Ne-Yo premiered a new track, called "Every Day with Love," featuring Sonna Rele, at the The Avalon in Los Angeles. It's the point where, 'She knows.' I don't have to tell her how beautiful she is, how smart she is, how sexy she is." The person can look at you and just see it. "It speaks to the kind of confidence that's needed to where you don't have to say it. It's definitely a sexy song," said Ne-Yo. Many of the album's 14 tracks include bits of inspiration from fans - though new single, "She Knows," isn't necessarily one of them. It also his way of letting fans in on the most intimate part of what he does: writing songs. So, for me to be at six it's not something to be taken lightly," said the R&B singer. If you get to two, then the gods are on your side. "This is almost 10 years and six albums for me, and the climate of music right now is if you get past one album you did something right. It was his way, he says, of "saying thank you" to the people who have supported his career all these years. He gathered material for the lyrics by soliciting ideas from fans. Ne-Yo, 35, took a different approach for this latest effort. In January, Ne-Yo unveiled his sixth studio album, "Non-Fiction." He's gone on to pen more singles for other acts, while simultaneously putting out a new record every couple of years. Now an accomplished songwriter in his own right, Ne-Yo has written several hits for other artists over the years - from Beyonce's "Irreplaceable" to Mario's "Let Me Love You." By 2006, he unveiled his debut album, "In My Own Words." Featuring the single "So Sick," the set quickly catapulted the man behind the lyrics to fame.