Usher - Confessions
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Artist: UsherEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-03-23
Music Label: La Face
Soundtracks:
- Intro
- Yeah!
- Throwback
- Confessions
- Confessions, Pt. 2
- Burn
- Caught Up
- Superstar
- Superstar
- Truth Hurts
- Simple Things
- Bad Girl
- That's What It's Made For
- Can U Handle It?
- Do It to Me
- Take Your Hand
- Follow Me
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Though truthfulness and betraying one's trust are reasonably diametrical, let Usher's "Confessions" show officially that, dogs, even young ones, are far more intriguing to women when the two are combined. Jim Morrison, lead singer of the Doors, once said that sex is 'full of lies.' Morrison went on to claim that the body 'tries to tell the truth
But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move.' In his opinion, we 'cripple ourselves with lies.' It's all about being free in realness with Usher. When Usher decided to name this album "Confessions" he meant it. You've heard about the break up, his cheating. I've walked through grocery stores and overheard grown women discussing Usher and Chili's break up like it was a soap opera. Though much of the subject matter in the songs are fictitious, in every case, there was undying sympathy for Usher. Sound different from the usual scarlet letter brothers get nowadays? What's the secret?
Answer: Tell her before it gets out in a CD with bangin' tracks and kick your own ass over messing up before she regains her senses. When most male singers are lying through their teeth of how they much more they know about women than other men in order to be the unfulfilled yet commercially viable romantic daydream to women far and wide, Usher has managed to use failures in his own relationships to reveal a level of manhood seldom seen in the new luminaries of R&B.
"Yeah! (featuring Lil' Jon/Ludacris)" sounds suspiciously like Petey Pablo's "Freek a Leek", but Usher does Pablo one better in rounding out the black male fantasy of being seduced in a club by a "dime." Lil' John compliments the smooth Usher with his trademark growl. Ludacris spits divine on this ode to club life. Every line packs the wit he's known for.
"Throwback" has the gritty-fuzzy guitar of the Jackson 5 era. This is the beginning of seeing Usher's undeniable talent for revealing the inner turmoil of men's hearts: "I love you girl more than life itself, but if a chick that's tight steps up a certain way, I will do the hell outta her!" Even when he is truly repentant, a sense of manhood remains in tact that most of his older contemporaries forsake as they fall headfirst into a world of begging and whining best left to the likes of Otis Redding and Keith Sweat.
"Confessions - (Interlude)" is one of the most meaningful interludes on an R&B (and hip hop) album in years. Usher flexes considerable chops when suddenly receiving a phone call while in the studio from his chick on the side informing him that she's expecting. This dovetails into "Confessions, Part II." The strength of Part II is not the almost too simple melody, but his redemption of being "man enough" to tell his main woman about the other woman and impending child himself. The mess he's caused is substantial and, because of the heartfelt candor in the lyrics, you can see every dude that ever ruined a good thing tapping his dashboard as he rides with the CD in the deck saying, "damn, that's, that's what I was feelin'." Usher has destroyed a relationship in grand fashion but avoids any stigma by somehow eliciting the feeling one gets when coming upon the clumsy, sweet-breathed and tender-pawed family puppy after it has made a mess of the house.
"Burn" is the "Let's Just Kiss and Say Goodbye" of today's generation. It has the emotional depth and maturity that is totally lacking in most of today's R&B singers (male and female) whose songs dealing with breakups tend to short-circuit into talk-show styled name-calling. Unlike Confessions II's melody, "Burn" is dead on with its whimsical strings and soothing bassline. From a distance, after he gets the break up he asked for, a casual observer could state that the back and forth Usher goes through can be written off as another example a black man that can't make up his mind over who and what he wants, but:
Sendin' pages I ain't supposed to
Got somebody here but I want you
Cause the feelin ain't the same by myself
Callin' her your name
Ladies tell me do you understand?
Now all my fellas do you feel my pain?
It's the way I feel
I know I made a mistake
Now it's too late
I know she ain't comin' back
Usher is torn. The bitterness in all of us wants to laugh, but we remember our worst moments and let it slide.
In "Truth Hurts", Usher beats haters to the punch by going so much further in kicking his own ass, you expect to see doo-doo on the heel of his shoes. Here, he finds himself paranoid and insecure of his woman's whereabouts. He croons old school reasonings to assuage his heart. Again the music is laid back and almost the antithesis of a situation where most male artists his age, hip hop or otherwise, cannot resist this chance to bash all women once and for all. No, Usher actually comes to realize the suspicion that nags him is his own guilt of cheating. Soul-searching.
"Simple Things" showcases Usher's pop song versatility while calling for a shift in the priorities of young brothers/wannabe ballers raised off the gold digger's perspective of buying love with the finer things in life. "Bad Girl" gives a shout out to the same type of girl most likely to leave her Prada bag with a girlfriend and, with Manolo Blahnik heels still on, breaks you off in the bathroom. It packs grumbling bass under guitar riffs that bring to mind mid to late 70's funk like Rufus' "You Got the Love".
"That's What It's Made For" draws you in with satisfying, undemanding flutes and honestly explores the heat of heats (the irrational primal scream of unprotected sex). It would have really worked if this song came before Confessions I and II. "Can U Handle It?" offers the dreamy, sensuality of Prince. Usher shows considerable control vocally in this foray into music for the slow hand. The nagging fear of his revealing too much against the need to possess his object of affection puts him on the level of Ginuwine or Tyrese when he pulls out all stops. Though steeped in soul, Usher is on his way to becoming a superstar beyond the level of those artists previously mentioned. And you're going to be with him all the way. You may hate what he's allegedly done to Chili, but you'll be mesmerized with the way he's dealing with it.
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