Trey Songz Ft. Keri Hilson: "Yo Side Of The Bed"

R&B crooner Trey Songz usually leaves the ladies hot and bothered with his steamy videos, but the "I Invented Sex" singer tugs at his fans' hearts in a different way, and he's passing out the tissues to go along with his love and war new video, "Yo Side of the Bed," which is the seventh track taken from Songz's 2009 Gold-certified album "Ready," premiered Wednesday exclusively on Essence.com. The tearjerker co-stars Keri Hilson as his wife and the mother of his infant daughter. The couple's prefect life is turned upside down when she is deployed to war and has to leave him with their daughter.
The Yolande Geralds directed video opens with a question about how long the two have been together with lyrics, "Well, if you count the time it took to get her on a date with me," Songz replies, "three years and seven or eight months." The video then flashes back to when they met: Hilson is jogging by Songz, who is seated on a park bench. Hilson is seen decked out in workout gear and a cap, adorned with the insignia of the US Army.
The track sends out a powerful and emotional message of love. "She's in the military and has been called to go on a war," Songz explained on the character that his collaborator is tackling in the video. Sadness and all the emotional feelings experienced by the on-screen couple, especially Songz when he has to come to terms with her departure, are explored in this new video.
Their lives are turned upside-down as Songz struggles to raise his daughter alone and Hilson visibly is missing her family while she goes into combat. Sadly, there's no happy ending in this tragic tale. This was a well thought out video with a great concept because things like that happen every day, right now. It's sad, but it's reality.