Trey Songz, “Neighbors Know My Name” | After Dark 🕛 🌃

In the 55^th edition of After Dark (2022), we explore the naughty, risqué, & sexual vibes behind, “Neighbors Know My Name” by Trey Songz.   

Innuendo? More like full-on sexual vibes! Welcome to After Dark 🕛 🌃, a column featuring songs that are best suited for nighttime, specifically, the bedroom.  Many of the records featured here raise eyebrows, as well as the temperature! These After Dark tunes focus on the universal three-letter word:  SEX. The dark records gracing After Dark are old and new alike, with all genres of music welcome.  In the 55^th edition of After Dark (2022), we explore the naughty, risqué, & sexual vibes behind, 🎵 “Neighbors Know My Name” by 🎙 Trey Songz.

Theme & Lyrics ✍

“I bet the neighbors know my name.” Well, in many circumstances, if you’re a social being, the neighbors likely do know your name and know something about you. However, 🎙 Trey Songz is getting at something else. He’s adept at singing about sex.  Much of his discography focuses on intimate interactions with the opposite sex.  That’s his lane, and he’s excelled at it for years.  💿 Ready, released in 2009, marked his third LP, but it was his breakthrough and his first platinum-certified album. It featured the steamy, gold-certified single, 🎵 “Neighbors Know My Name”. Why do the neighbors know his name, you ask? Well, let’s just say that his girl is, um, verbal while doing it.

“I bet the neighbors know my name

Way you screaming, scratching, yelling

Bet the neighbors know my name

And they be stressing while we sexing.”

Woo! Even prior to the naughty centerpiece, Trey paints a naughty, highly sexual scene.  “As soon as I go deep getting it in, then again /There’s a knock, knock, knocking on the wall,” he sings in the first verse, adding, “Girl, your legs keep shaking and I swear / We breaking our new headboard, headboard.” Gah day-umm! The second verse is more of the same, as Trey tells her, “Girl, your body’s a problem, they call me the problem solver.” Apparently! There’s also the bridge, where he continues to describe the sex, including the fact she switches up his names while, um, orgasming:

“Sometimes she call me Trey, sometimes she say Tremaine

When it’s all said and done, bet the neighbors know my name

Sometimes she call me Trigga ‘cause I make her body bust

He might think my name is ‘Oh shit,’ I make her cuss.”

Final Thoughts 💭 

The pillow talk is ramped TF up on 🎵 “Neighbors Know My Name” and we wouldn’t have it any other way! Even more than a decade old, it remains potent and perfect for making your own love, haha.  While I focused on the lustful lyrics, the music – the production – is also an integral part of this After Dark 🕛 🌃.  Not only does the text convey sex, but so does the backdrop.  You could call this a sex bop.

Appears in 🔻:

• 15 Compelling Name Songs
• 13 Incredible Neighbor / Neighborhood Songs

🎙 Trey Songz • 💿 Ready • 🏷 Atlantic • 🗓 2009

Trey Songz, “Neighbors Know My Name”: After Dark 🕛 🌃 No. 55 (2022) [📷: Brent Faulkner, cottonbro, Darkmoon_Art, Eko Agalarov, JJ Whitley, Jonas Wilson, Ketut Subiyanto, KoolShooters, The Musical Hype, Pexels, Pixabay, Tazz Vaughn]