Usher - Classic or Dud?

The video where he finally goes "fuck it, I'm going to stop pretending I'm not an MJ wannabe"!

also "yeah" is better club song than anything timberlake has done, though idk how much of that is of usher's doing.

Actually, now that I think of it, "Caught Up" itself is the moment Ursh finally gives into every MJ-wannabe impulse he's ever had.

..as "Like I Love You" is to JT.

usher could reduce timberlake to cinder if they showed up on stage together. timberlake is intelligent, inspired, enthusiastic but in comparison he's such a gawky amateur he might as well be david byrne.

Who's David Burn?

Alright, news media, pick the doll you think is nicer.

that's a weird field. lol @ shipley dropping "ursher" in a sentence.

er weird thread. got "minimal techno" on my mind.

Fact: In the Jackin' Pop poll, FutureSex/LoveSounds was the only high-ranked album by a white artist to score better among black voters than white voters.

even beat the Hold Steady? Wowsers.

Futuresex did a good job of working around and with the dork factor than Justified, which tried to pretend it didn't exist.

I think Usher could take him

dancing:

chris brown>usher>timberlake

"chris breezy"

dude wtf chris brown's mtv performance was a hitler impersation followed by hopping from table to table like the fountains at epcot DO NOT SETTLE

Futuresex did a good job of working around and with the dork factor than Justified, which tried to pretend it didn't exist.

-- da croupier, Monday, November 12, 2007 10:33 PM (Monday, November 12, 2007 10:33 PM) Bookmark Link

qft

"Yeah" is possibly my least-favourite recording ever.

http://www.arcspace.com/books/ban/shigeru_ban/1ban.jpg

yes that deserves a SHIGERU BAN.

"love in the club" is kind of hot

i don't think this album is going to top confessions sales-wise though, but he's going in an interesting direction. "moving mountains" is interesting.

"love in the club" is kind of hot

like water is kind of wet

'love in the club' is SO serious

and to weigh in on the jt vs. usher convo above: i feel like usher is decidedly more consistent, more 'good' shit, but thus far i think jt has more 'great' shit.

would love to see friendly rivalry though

not into the new single.

R&B star Usher left Kent festival goers unimpressed after shouting out "hello Manchester" to the packed crowd.

The singer was opening Radio 1's Big Weekend festival in Maidstone, Kent, when the blunder happened, prompting some audience members to boo.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7394709.stm

"trading places" off of the new album is the gayest song ever

oh shit

"I'm always on the top, tonight I'm on the bottom" nh

lmafo at this song

pretty good if not rote production from tricky but god damn these are some of the most retarded lyrics i've heard

http://www.westga.edu/~jhasbun/charge.gif

if "charge.gif" means im otm than tape store otm

plz note y-position

p.s. happy birthday

erm, birthday eve

ha im a journalism major dude

and thank you for bday wishes

"this ain't sex" is great, nice groove

lol @ snl performance

his hypemanning for jeezy was ridiculous and the rest was a total snooze

totally forced as well

pretty good if not rote production from tricky but god damn these are some of the most retarded lyrics i've heard

You mean L.O.S./Carlos McKinney/L.O.S. da Maestro/etc.

timberlake>>>usher.

obv timberlakes lyrics arent exactly sly (or even angie*) stone but usher still doesnt really seem like hes trying to outdo his competition these days. i like in this club well enough but it just seems tired. a song about being in the club doesnt seem like the best idea to launch a comeback with. interested to hear the album in any case.

*on a good day

i'd say usher singles>>justin singles, but i'm sure justin's albums are better, and i will say, i don't think justin would have given as listless a performance on such a stage as usher did on snl

the first parental advisory album i ever remember my mom letting me get was 'my way'

back when blockbuster was still selling cds

maybe it was specs actually

i'd say usher singles>>justin singles, but i'm sure justin's albums are better,

I'd actually say it's the other way around, even though I think Justin Timberlake is an insufferable douche he has some unfuckwithable singles ("Like I Love You", "My Love," "Until The End Of Time", "Lovestoned," "Senorita").. as does Usher obviously, but a lot of his best songs are album tracks ("Can U Help Me," "Throwback," "Before I Met You," etc. etc....) and I think Confessions & 8701 (his best album) are >>>>> FS/LS and Justified. Not to say Justin doesn't have his share of album tracks ("Sexy Ladies", "Last Night,"), but yeah. Also, Usher is a waaaaaayyyyyy better vocalist, better dancer and just better all-around personality... I think Justin's album's are carried by the Production - he's pretty expendable, and actually a lot of his shit would be better if sung by someone else because his voice is REALLY annoying sometimes - whereas Usher takes command of his material.

but I've never forgiven Justin for boob-gate so I may be biased

really though what Timberlake song is fucking with this one:

really it may just come down to what you want in your music, obviously Timberlake is more "pop" so.... it's kind of not a good comparison besides the obvious MALE SUPERSTARS WHO DANCE thing.

honestly Tape Store I'm curious do you think Justin Timberlake is a necessary part of FutureSex/LoveSongs or that another capable vocalist could sing those same songs and it'd still be your fave album of the decade? Because I don't feel like his voice is special, and if anything his 'persona' detracts from the songs a little bit (to me anyway, I always have trouble buying Timberlake as the cool womanizer he paints himself as in a lot of songs...)