And the final bar on Ludacris' verse has to be one of the rap lines most repeated in conversation. Usher proves just how catchy a song can be thanks to his voice. The energetic track was destined to be the inescapable hit it became.
The track is an emblem of Lil Jon's reign at the time, from a beat that sounds like a melodic alarm to the "WHAT" and "OKAAAAY" ad-libs that inspired great bits on Chappelle's Show. The album's second song is "Yeah!," Usher's monstrous collaboration with Lil Jon and Ludacris. But as the next track begins, the energy does a 180 that would make Vince Carter proud. You see what I did there, right?Ĭonfessions starts in a calm, yet suspenseful way thanks to the intro. Once the track ends, it's clear that Usher has a lot on his mind *DRAMATIC PAUSE* and he's ready to confess. Usher strengthens this connection with his ad-libs, as his voice echoes in a way that calls Marvin Gaye to mind. He then speaks over production that's reminiscent of old soul music. Usher opens the song with a deep sigh, so it's safe to say he doesn’t have good news to share. The LP's intro is a short offering, but it still sets the tone for what's to come. But in a weird way, the breakup afforded him the world's gaze and that's exactly what his album deserved. I doubt Usher wanted to endure a public breakup for the sake of his career. From strong vocals to meaningful lyrics, great production to smart sequencing-pretty much everything you could ask for in an R&B album is present on Confessions.
But thankfully, the album itself saved Usher from being just a tabloid star. Some may see the drama that surrounded Usher's album and think it was all a cheap ploy to sell units. This sentiment remained as Usher and Dupri began the recording process, and it manifested in a song titled "All Bad." The singer had to ramp up interest in who he was outside of music. Reid and Usher himself had a solution in mind. But for Usher's team, there was still another level for him to reach.
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He had Platinum albums, high-charting singles and big TV performances. Usher was already one of R&B’s biggest stars prior to Confessions. But few would dominate a chapter the way Usher did with his breakthrough LP. If R&B was a story, lots of characters would be involved. This understanding helped to shape Confessions, the fourth album by Usher. Topics that strike a chord, characters that you root for, anticipation of what’s to come-these elements can make us rewind an album or turn the page all the same. Music and novels are decidedly different artforms, but they both demonstrate the power of a good story. But cheating is not what caused the relationship to collide and crash.Happy 15th Anniversary to Usher’s fourth studio album Confessions, originally released March 23, 2004. I will tell you that I loved a lot and she obviously loved me it just didn’t work out. “You have heard a lot of farfetched things-‘Yo, did you get a girl pregnant?’ Nah, that was the creativity of music.
“People assume things, because as I said, I pull from my personal experiences to make my music,” he said in a MTV News interview. However, Usher still had to clarify that he was singing in character, and hadn’t actually impregnated a mistress. “I just had gone through ‘Part II’ in real life, so it was like as soon as he said he wanted ‘Part II,’ the chorus was already on the edge of my lips… so it like 30 minutes to write.” “Usher didn’t have kids none of these things were going on,” he told Complex. All that basically sums up ‘Confessions.’įrom there, it was only natural to continue the story with “Confessions Part II.” Dupri took inspiration from his personal life to inform the narrative on the song. I wanted everybody to start wondering: Who’s he talking about? What’s going on? Where’s this coming from? That was the goal. create what girls think happens when we go to the studio. In response to people at Usher’s label Arista who said that fans only talked about the singer’s records, Dupri decided that he would find a way to “create a whirlwind around Usher” by stirring up drama: According to Dupri, he felt that Usher could only become a superstar by opening up in his music.
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