Stop This World

Album: Year Of The Gentleman (2008)
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Songfacts®:

  • This sweeping piano ballad is about falling in love so hard that you believe those feelings could literally stop the world from spinning. Ne-Yo admitted to MTV News Asia: "That happens to me a lot. I'm a bleeding heart, ladies and gentleman. But the first time it happened for me was when I was 16 years old."
  • The same woman who inspired this also inspired "So Sick" and "Do You" from his previous albums. Ne-Yo told MTV News Asia: "I talk to her from time to time. She knows she's responsible [for those three songs]. Her man knows, her daughter knows, and they're flattered. She makes for great song lyrics, but she better not ask for 10 percent!"

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