This song still doesn't really work for me:
And neither does the video.
I just don't get the vocal production on this song. The guys' voices are digitized on the hook, I guess because they can't blend or the producers don't really care about what it actually means to be a male R&B vocal group.
When you hear a Day26 song, you here an overly democratic approach to leads where the weakest vocalists (Willie and Que) are given equal weight with the strongest (Brian and Robert) such that the overall effect is to completely undersell any emotion or idea that might be in the song. And because they aren't bothering to harmonize there is no way for them to develop a sound unique to them that will help create in your mind who Day26 is supposed to be.
And that's really the issue here: these guys don't suggest a single image or identity that makes them standout or even interesting. There is no Alex Vanderpool like Boyz II Men or the romantic thug image of Jodeci or the sexual bravado of H-Town or Silk or even the church boy gospelly soul of an Intro or a Playa.
It's clear no one on Day26's team has any vision for what to do with them. And they themselves seem content to sing whatever sounds current enough to chart. It's generic trendy producers working with generically talented men to create … not much of anything.
