Usher | Looking 4 Myself

by **AlexCleysson** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 3:08 am

A single by Bieber and Usher may be coming

Or a cover for a magazine, who knows? :lol:

Justin on twitter...

now headed to a COVER SHOOT with big bro @UsherRaymondIV - we got duets on both of our albums coming

by **abi** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 6:54 am

Why are y'all so against this Bieber collabo?

I mean, Usher is Bieber's mentor. Just get used to it. Just like Nicki/Lil' Wayne, Drake/Lil' Wayne, Rihanna/Jay, etc.

Plus Bieber is not that bad either nowadays.

by **Nackar** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 7:22 am

^ +1

Don't shoot it down until you've heared it. If you don't like this one song, move on. No one's force-feeding it to you.

by **MO_FAN95** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 8:35 pm

abi wrote:Why are y'all so against this Bieber collabo?

I mean, Usher is Bieber's mentor. Just get used to it. Just like Nicki/Lil' Wayne, Drake/Lil' Wayne, Rihanna/Jay, etc.

Plus Bieber is not that bad either nowadays.

AMEN!!!

by **Plym** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 8:38 pm

I just don't like his voice and I don't like his music and I don't really want a track on an Usher album used up with a Justin Bieber duet.
People are allowed to not want him on the album, mentor or not.

by **Play** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 9:08 pm

Plym wrote:I just don't like his voice and I don't like his music and I don't really want a track on an Usher album used up with a Justin Bieber duet.
People are allowed to not want him on the album, mentor or not.

This is the truth. Truth is this.

by **TheRealest** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 9:17 pm

Plym wrote:I just don't like his voice and I don't like his music and I don't really want a track on an Usher album used up with a Justin Bieber duet.
People are allowed to not want him on the album, mentor or not.

by **Titan3510** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 10:21 pm

I understand where you guys are coming from but can we just wait and see what the duet actually sounds like before we actually trash it.

Usher's trying to help Justin's fanbase expand beyond pre-teen white girls, their mothers and their grandmothers.

by **sanim02** » Thu Apr 12, 2012 1:08 am

Seems like there's a lot of competition this time around... With alternative music and boy bands making a comeback, even Bieber's having a hard time... Climax dropped to #4 cuz of We Are Young on UK iTunes.

I wonder if Usher will be able to get another Hot 100 #1 this time around. It would be 6 albums in a row now, hope he can pull it off!!

by **preyan** » Thu Apr 12, 2012 9:31 am

Titan3510 wrote:I understand where you guys are coming from but can we just wait and see what the duet actually sounds like before we actually trash it.

Usher's trying to help Justin's fanbase expand beyond pre-teen white girls, their mothers and their grandmothers.

by **Plym** » Thu Apr 12, 2012 1:06 pm

sanim02 wrote:I wonder if Usher will be able to get another Hot 100 #1 this time around.

He better.

by **truthless** » Thu Apr 12, 2012 1:30 pm

Titan3510 wrote:
Usher's trying to help Justin's fanbase expand beyond pre-teen white girls, their mothers and their grandmothers.

But I couldnt careless about biebz.

by **Titan3510** » Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:03 pm

truthless wrote:
But I couldnt careless about biebz.

Yet.

I like how people are counting this dude out and bashing him before he really has a chance to shine.

by **Valentino** » Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:05 pm

Titan3510 wrote:
truthless wrote:
But I couldnt careless about biebz.
Yet.

I like how people are counting this dude out and bashing him before he really has a chance to shine.

Cheers to that !
He is talented I dont get the hate

by **tada** » Thu Apr 12, 2012 8:34 pm

i would love hot duet with Beyoncé or Alicia again, or best imagination - with both!
with justin :-?

...at least it will have success

by **sanim02** » Thu Apr 12, 2012 10:03 pm

An Alicia Keys duet would be nice but I'd like him to explore beyond his usual collabs. Monica, Beyoncé and Alicia have made their mark, bring someone new! =D

by **AlexCleysson** » Fri Apr 13, 2012 12:16 am

Now, for real... I just want good music from Usher
Maybe the Bieber collaboration will be good, who knows? I'll just wait patiently for the new album

by **abi** » Fri Apr 13, 2012 4:32 am

tada wrote:i would love hot duet with Beyoncé or Alicia again, or best imagination - with both!
with justin ...at least it will have success

Honestly when my faves collaborate with each other, the songs will end up being a disappointment ("Until The End of Time", "Love In This Club Part II" & "Put It In A Love Song"). :lol:

Though I really like them all, the only standout track is "My Boo"!

by **sanim02** » Fri Apr 13, 2012 2:59 pm

abi wrote:
tada wrote:i would love hot duet with Beyoncé or Alicia again, or best imagination - with both!
with justin ...at least it will have success
Honestly when my faves collaborate with each other, the songs will end up being a disappointment ("Until The End of Time", "Love In This Club Part II" & "Put It In A Love Song"). Though I really like them all, the only standout track is "My Boo"!

My Boo had the advantage of being planned out and demoed for months before it got an official release lol. There were so many leaks for that song, but the official version is still one of my fav songs ha!

by **AlexCleysson** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 6:09 pm

Rooling Stone's review of the Usher's 'listening session' with a performance of him with Fuerza Bruta in NY yesterday.

Usher doesn’t want you to just listen to his seventh album Looking for Myself – he’d rather you feel it. To debut his Euro-splashed LP, coming out June 12th, the R&B sexophile integrated himself into two performances of Off-Broadway’s “Fuerza Bruta,” a senses-stimulating live experience combining vigorous slam dancing, surgical lighting cues and participation from a clumped standing-only audience.

A foggy haze permeated the cavernous performance space at New York City’s Daryl Roth Theater, where the 33-year-old theatrically sequenced the entirety of the project to strobing lights and choreographed moves. A booming voice introduced the night as “a journey for each of the senses,” and warned the audience, “what happens stays here. Consider yourself lucky.” Those in attendance for the first of two pre-public performances took note, heeding commands to crouch low to the ground and pump fists in the air.

Emerging from the dark, a fauxhawk-coiffed Ursh, clad in a snow-white suit accented by a black tie, trotted across a conveyor belt in beat to the Diplo-produced “Climax.” As the tempo galloped and his pace quickened, he clutched his stomach as a gunshot fired and blood spread across his torso, leaving the evening’s protagonist injured but able to mingle with fellow players as the crunchy title track, produced by Empire of the Sun, boomed through the system.

That sense of wounded ache counteracted his desire to command the crowd, a balance struck tightly on Looking for Myself. The LP piggybacks on the ephemeral club appeal of his recent hits, including “DJ Got Us Fallin’ in Love” featuring Pitbull and David Guetta’s “Without You,” and weighs it against vulnerable demi-ballads à la “Papers,” pointing the pen inward while reflecting on the concept of fidelity.

At his most frivolous, Usher dominated the room. As the audience shuffled to accommodate the constantly shifting set pieces, he orchestrated flash dance parties, bringing attendees onto a pint-sized stage to boogie to the sounds of the album’s second single “Scream,” produced by Max Martin and Shellback. Even when he splayed across a makeshift couch during the Jim Jonsin-helmed “Let Me See” featuring Rick Ross, patrons bounced to the PG-13 lyrics (“She said she want to take her shirt off, be my guest,” he sings) while lights flashed and acrobats raced along a silver curtain 30 feet above the ground.

But it was when the pace slowed that Usher’s trademark sensitivity shined. The album reached emotional fever pitch during a Rico Love-penned “Dive,” where actors slid across a taut see-through tarp covered in pools of water, sustained above the audience’s head. “I don’t mind playing in the rain,” Usher naughtily coos over an unresolving melody. Later, against a cloudy and mechanical beat on an unnamed track, he sings a different tune: “I admit that I’ve been careless,” he confesses.

It’s those pocket moments of introspection that humanize the robotics of Looking for You. With two public performances at “Fuerza Bruta,” both taking place tonight (April 28), the veteran entertainer reasserts himself as a master of rapturous dance fodder, capable of turning a room into a thumping rave with ease. But the conflicted odes of self-reflection show the hero isn’t as valiant as the beat would have you believe – an uncertainty that keeps him grounded, even when the volume is cranked up high.

by **AlexCleysson** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 6:11 pm

List of the songs off Looking For Myself played:

"Climax"
"Looking 4 Myself"
"Lemme See" feat. Rick Ross
"Climax (Kaskade remix)"
"Twisted"
"Scream"
"Dive"
"Show Me"
"Hot Thing" feat. Pharrell Williams
"I Care 4 You"
"Euphoria"
"Can't Stop Won't Stop"

http://www.complex.com/music/2012/04/us ... self-album

by **sanim02** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 6:26 pm

AlexCleysson wrote:List of the songs off Looking For Myself played:

"Climax"
"Looking 4 Myself"
"Lemme See" feat. Rick Ross
"Climax (Kaskade remix)"
"Twisted"
"Scream"
"Dive"
"Show Me"
"Hot Thing" feat. Pharrell Williams
"I Care 4 You"
"Euphoria"
"Can't Stop Won't Stop"

http://www.complex.com/music/2012/04/us ... self-album

I read that article before but they weren't sure of the titles, (ie the Rick Ross track they got wrong) and "the Pharrell sounding" track lol.

Also they forgot "Numb" & "Sins of A Father". No way would Usher do a listening session without a SHM track.

by **AlexCleysson** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 6:29 pm

sanim02 wrote:
AlexCleysson wrote:List of the songs off Looking For Myself played:

"Climax"
"Looking 4 Myself"
"Lemme See" feat. Rick Ross
"Climax (Kaskade remix)"
"Twisted"
"Scream"
"Dive"
"Show Me"
"Hot Thing" feat. Pharrell Williams
"I Care 4 You"
"Euphoria"
"Can't Stop Won't Stop"

http://www.complex.com/music/2012/04/us ... self-album
I read that article before but they weren't sure of the titles, (ie the Rick Ross track they got wrong) and "the Pharrell sounding" track lol.

Also they forgot "Numb" & "Sins of A Father". No way would Usher do a listening session without a SHM track.

This was updated ^^
And assuming the other reviews of the play, Numb and Sins of a Father weren't played :wink:

by **sanim02** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 6:55 pm

AlexCleysson wrote:
sanim02 wrote:
AlexCleysson wrote:List of the songs off Looking For Myself played:

"Climax"
"Looking 4 Myself"
"Lemme See" feat. Rick Ross
"Climax (Kaskade remix)"
"Twisted"
"Scream"
"Dive"
"Show Me"
"Hot Thing" feat. Pharrell Williams
"I Care 4 You"
"Euphoria"
"Can't Stop Won't Stop"

http://www.complex.com/music/2012/04/us ... self-album
I read that article before but they weren't sure of the titles, (ie the Rick Ross track they got wrong) and "the Pharrell sounding" track lol.

Also they forgot "Numb" & "Sins of A Father". No way would Usher do a listening session without a SHM track.
This was updated ^^
And assuming the other reviews of the play, Numb and Sins of a Father wasn't played

Oh snap! Sorry I just checked the bottom, ha! A Pharrell song, nice find!

by **Titan3510** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 4:11 am

When is this supposed to be coming out?