Usher - "Coming Home" | (SB Halftime Show 2024)

[tallen2001]

I really didn’t like this, and this is coming from someone who has always really enjoyed Usher’s music. These all sound really generic.

[Caviar]

Select tracks coming up on my Spotify personalized playlists. Awful!

[Sure Thing]

“You Decide” is amazing.

I heard “ATA” will be a single.

[Zinc.]

— Usher & Zaytoven, “A” – No. 31 — Usher’s surprise album, a collaboration with Zaytoven, debuts at No. 31 with 15,000 units (4,000 from album sales). The set was announced on Oct. 11, and released the following day. It marks Usher’s 11th charting album, and Zaytoven’s third. Usher was last on the tally with Hard II Love (No. 5 in 2015) and Zaytoven notched a pair of debuts earlier in 2018 (Trapholizay, No. 78 and Let the Trap Say Amen, No. 49).

[owenlovesmusic]

Stay At Home 🔥🔥

[#LisaRinna]

WAIT why did no one tell me about "Say What U Want"?

The definition of CHILL.

[Zinc.]

Is Usher a Legend In the R&B Game? Yes. Yes, He Is

A few weeks back in Atlanta for Spelhouse homecoming, I got into a fun and spirited debate with my crew of Day Ones over Sunday brunch. Because we love to have deep and intellectual conversations about shit that doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things, music and entertainment are usually an easy go-to. The particular day’s topic: R&B legends.

One of the homies asked the all-important question and then drew a parallel. The all-important question (and if I’m getting the ‘pacifics wrong, I’m sure the homies can and will correct me): Is Usher a legend? The parallel was made to Bobby Brown, whose legendary status was then subsequently questioned.

Let’s start at the beginning: Bobby Brown is absolutely a legend. He created ONE single solitary album worth talking about in what amounts to 30-plus-year career of music and shenanigans. And yet, that one album was like Wilt Chamberlains’ 100-point game. Bobby wrecked shop throughout the industry, bagged Janet Jackson, slept with ghosts, married Whitney Houston, did all of the drugs and created Don’t Be Cruel (hot-take alert), the best R&B album of all time post-Thriller. While one of the homies who instituted the convo doesn’t believe that Bobby Brown is necessarily a legend, I think it’s pretty safe to squarely put him in the R&B legend camp. He is easily and far-and-away the most successful member of New Edition.

Yet pitting Bobby against Usher might be unfair; Bobby’s heyday is the reason why acts like Usher could even thrive. And artists like Usher may have had Michael Jackson in their sights in terms of impact, but Bobby Brown was the blueprint for super-edgy R&B, and Usher took that baton and ran with it. But for my money, in his own right, Usher is a legend, and I’ll explain why. For the record, and the very reason why this is even a discussion is this: Apparently not everybody thinks that Usher’s reign was legendary. Color me badd, yo.

Back to Usher’s legendary status. I think that if we were to put together a male R&B Mount Rushmore, both Bobby Brown and Usher would absolutely belong on that mountain. For you, who belongs there can depend on any number of factors. Hell, if you’re over 50 you might think I’m smoking that la la la for even including Ursher, Baby. For my money, I’m rounding out my facade with Luther and Babyface. Considering that Babyface has written and was responsible for several hits for each of the aforementioned acts, maybe they should call it Mount Babyface. And I mean, Prince? What is he? I quit.

Usher Raymond IV is a superstar R&B artist. Of his eight studio albums, four of them have been No. 1 albums on Billboard. Confessions, his highest-selling album, went diamond, which is the Recording Industry Association of America’s designation for selling 10 million copies of an album in the United States. That album sold over 20 million copies worldwide. Not quite Michael Jackson but it is good enough to be the best selling album for 2004, back when folks were still buying albums; even Jadakiss’ Kiss of Death album went platinum. He also had the best opening week for an R&B act—ever. And that’s just Confessions.

Usher’s best song? Cleary, it’s “U Don’t Have to Call,” a Neptunes-produced record off of his almost five million-selling 8701 album, which also included seminal hits like “U Got It Bad,” and “U Remind Me.” As you can see, Usher is a fan of the letter “U.”

Usher has the record sales to be a legend. But what else makes one a legend? Usher is an amazing vocal talent, but couple that with his performance stylings, clearly in the perfectionist vein of Michael with the seductiveness of Bobby ‘nem, and Usher leveled up the game in every single way. He is a dancing ass dancer who commands(ed) the stage in a way that, for his time, made his concerts a must-see event. While Usher is mostly scandal-free (mostly, I said scandal, not STI), he’s also lived a rock-n-roll lifestyle, one that Bobby perfected for the masses to learn (and unlearn) from.

Usher, whose career got going in the mid-’90s and is still going today, is a name that both sells and garners respect for what he brought to the R&B table as a talent and a personality. When people talk about R&B greats, Usher’s name belongs in the conversation. While I know that many are loathe to give legendary status to artists still making music and young enough to be other legend’s children, the fact is, Usher has done enough work, been around long enough and has enough hits and a classic album (Confessions), that to argue against his legendary status seems nonsensical.

But alas, I know some don’t see it that way. If you ask me, Usher’s a legend, hands down. To others, maybe not.

What say you? What is your confession?

Let it burn.

[think pink.]

Was that seriously ever a question?

[Ivy Leegue™]

She Ain't Tell Ya is so classic, it could be on Confessions.

[think pink.]

This album(?) seriously bangs. I need y'all to listen again.

[Jay D83]

Usher definitely is a legend but the Kang of R&B (Ribs and Blunts) - Bobbaaayyy Brown certainly ISN'T. Nobody even gave a fuck about him until Whitney died. I'm so tired of this revisionist history.

::Getting off my soapbox::

::Return to your regularly scheduled program::

[Ivy Leegue™]

LOL this is actual incorrect information. Don't Be Cruel is an R&B classic, spawned a few hits, and was way before Diddy starting diddling Usher. Granted, Bobbaaaaay only had one good album (and a great remix one, too), but still, facts are facts.

[think pink.]

Everything else aside, R. Kelly is the true king of R&B.

[Zinc.]

http://instagram.com/p/Bqa8-lGBDDv

[owenlovesmusic]

Stay At Home gets better each play.

[aussie1]

Nov 20, 2018 20:29:14 GMT -5 Zinc. said:

http://instagr.am/p/Bqa8-lGBDDv

274M units in Australia? That seems very inaccurate. Surely that isn't record sales

[Deleted]

I think his team(s) have definitely let his legacy slip. His music was very influential on the generation of R&B stars that came after him, but I think outside of the big R&B fans most people don't easily draw that connection. Part of that is probably not wanting to speed up his transition to being a legacy act. I definitely don't think of him as a legend in a general sense.

[Glove Slap]

Nov 21, 2018 10:29:35 GMT -5 @jazzysoul47 said:

I think his team(s) have definitely let his legacy slip. His music was very influential on the generation of R&B stars that came after him, but I think outside of the big R&B fans most people don't easily draw that connection. Part of that is probably not wanting to speed up his transition to being a legacy act. I definitely don't think of him as a legend in a general sense.

I said this in another thread, but even with everything about him, R. Kelly is a bigger legend than Usher, who is much closer to has been territory (if not swimming in it) than he ever should have been due to bad management. Even with the Pop hits from the early part of the decade, there's no real excuse for his legacy to be where it is right now. Around the time of when they initially tried to launch his last album in 2014, they should have also been pushing him as an artist with a legacy (if you take My Way as his true breakout, timeline wise that put him then around the same period as when Mariah Carey and Madonna did their major comebacks, slightly more actually), instead of pushing him forward as someone who's as good as their most recent single.

I don't think that door is completely closed for him, but as of right now he's known as someone who was big a long time ago, and now isn't, when it should be much more multi-faceted and revered than that.

[awwHALEnahh]

Nov 20, 2018 19:31:21 GMT -5 think pink. said:

This album(?) seriously bangs. I need y'all to listen again.

I so agree. I find myself revisiting this cd more than any of the other R&B projects released this year. Definitely a step up from his last cd, which I can’t seem to remember the name of. 🤭😂

[Zinc.]

http://instagram.com/p/BrN_tvtDsPy

[Nick]

^After revisiting that, I kind of liked it.

[Zinc.]

[Nick]

USHER FILES FOR DIVORCE From Wife Grace Miguel

www.tmz.com/2018/12/28/usher-files-for-divorce-from-estranged-wife-grace-miguel/?fbclid=IwAR2CXAq0mOXLvdT5-5kSA9QDqWEoNu0h3Ht-dcUa1XTR3JQ1Dc6MIqW3P0Y

[Caviar]

Hard fall from Grace. No pun

[Rican@]

I forgot he was married. That was short lived.

[SHOOTER]

Dec 28, 2018 20:15:25 GMT -5 Rican@ said:

I forgot he was married. That was short lived.

I had sworn they’ve been divorced.

[Caviar]

Dec 30, 2018 17:35:52 GMT -5 SHOOTER said:

Dec 28, 2018 20:15:25 GMT -5 Rican@ said:

I forgot he was married. That was short lived.

I had sworn they’ve been divorced.

They announced separatation last December.

[wavey.]

He needs to stay single.

[SHOOTER]

Midlife crisis or nah?

http://instagram.com/p/BsE2Ek4Bq6d

[stunnedout]

he still sexy AF.