![]() The last release was A, a surprise EP he recorded with producer Zaytoven, which was released to celebrate his 40th birthday.Īhead of his upcoming album, Usher has achieved a series of number one hits and certification updates from the RIAA, and successful residencies in Las Vegas and Paris. Usher’s upcoming album also will be his first project of new material since 2018. 1 on urban radio and Billboard, while the latter was a top 10 hit. ![]() Singles included “ No Limit” featuring Young Thug and “ Missin U.” The first of the pair reached No. It also topped Billboard’s Top R&B Albums chart. It will follow his 2016 album, Hard II Love, which debuted at No. Usher’s Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show poster.įans and viewers have more to look forward to besides his performance - he is also releasing his long-awaited ninth album. Usher is the second Super Bowl headliner announced since Apple Music partnered with the NFL. “Thank you to the fans and everyone who made this opportunity happen. I can’t wait to bring the world a show unlike anything else they’ve seen from me before,” Usher shared in a statement. “It’s an honor of a lifetime to finally check a Super Bowl performance off my bucket list. 11, 2024, at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada. The R&B icon will headline Apple Music’s Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show on Feb. What’s the story behind the song and the sequel? Let’s talk about “Confessions” and “Confessions Part II,” both recorded by Usher.Usher is gearing up for an eventual 2024. When we did “Confessions,” we really had started with another song called “All Bad” and the “Confessions” part was in parentheses. In that song, I talked about how everything I’ve been doing is all bad. It’s a guy feeling bad about himself, about what he had been doing to the girl, so he just came out and told her. Once that version of “Confessions” was finished, Usher and myself was all like, “This is it. This is crazy.” And then Usher was like, “You can’t stop right there. There’s a part two to this story.” And immediately, as soon as Usher said there’s a part two, my brain clicked and every word of “Confessions Part II” flew out of my mouth. Those lyrics for part two were something that I had actually gone through in my life they were a reliving of a situation. I just had to put it in the right words that would make it fit for being Usher’s story. Sounds like the second song came together pretty quickly. It took about an hour, and the process was me saying the lyrics to him. I stopped writing lyrics down on paper after me and JAY-Z did “Money In the Bank.” They’re something I just hold in my mind. ![]() He came to the studio and I saw him do that and I was like, “What the hell was this?” And he said, “I had my rap,” and he didn’t write one thing down in the studio. He said, “I wrote it, I just didn’t write it on paper.” I had never seen this done before. And then I started realizing, it might be easier than writing it down because we all memorize the songs that we really love. We memorize them tone for tone, without looking at a piece of paper. If you’re driving in the car, you don’t have the song lyrics in front of you but you hear a song on the radio and memorize it from that. I haven’t written anything down since I started working with JAY-Z. What’s the best part of writing and producing as part of a team? You’ve always been a big collaborator in your songwriting. Yesterday we celebrated Aretha Franklin’s birthday and I posted a clip on my Instagram of one of the songs I did for her on the album. ![]() When I was watching the video and thinking about the songwriters - I wrote the song with Trina Broussard and Trey Lorenz - and since it sampled Luther Vandross it had three or four other people’s names on there as writers. We had a sound going for Aretha and we came together and started writing the song. That process is pretty much the same every time, unless get I get the urge to write the entire song, and then the songs first flow out of me completely and then I don’t give no one else the chance to write on the song. Other times I’ll come up with a concept - I’m big on the hooks - and I’ll start writing a hook and if I write the hook it automatically gives someone a chance to understand what they want to say in the verse. So if I’m collaborating, I understand my role and understand the slow process in the studio. The slow process in the studio is cooperative thinking, not thinking necessarily that the first thing that comes to your mind is the song. Your hit “You Make Me Wanna,” another Usher hit, is another big collaboration.įor that song, I felt like Usher had just come off working with Devante and Jodeci on his first album, and felt like I was trying to make a ballad type of mid-tempo record. I thought, this seems comfortable for this artist and I should try to make the coolest slow record we could possibly make. ![]()
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