Usher - COMING HOME (Discussion thread) 2/9/2024 UPDATE: Expanded Edition coming Friday

[re'up]

Here I Stand was the last one I heard all the way through. But, I really only liked Love In This Club and the Remix.

I did used to listen to Papers a lot around 2009, for no real reason, other than the beat was sick and Usher sounded good. Haven't heard anything since.

it's always this wishful thinking shyt, but as an Usher fan since 1997, had the CD back then, was trying to game to my 7th grade girlfriends, like "lets take it nice and slow", if he could do some like a 7 track 90's throwback, I would be down.

 

[Big Boss]

Crazy how these artists have a more mature sound on their earlier albums.

That is probably my biggest issue with artists when they age

Facts

 

[re'up]

A typical R&B song today

*sing a surprisingly traditional verse*

Hold you in my arms.............never let you gooooo ooh woahhhhhhh

*rapper gets on to rap some dumb shyt*

smacking dat booty, like I smacked up da opps. Having you screaming and begging for da cops. I got a warrant for my arrest as I'm grabbin' on ya breast. I'm a Jamaican pop quiz. Who wan' test

This is hilarious, and had to give you your credit, because that's exactly how I see it. That's ALWAYS been kind of a thing in R&B since mid 2000's, I think in the 90's rappers toned it down, think Jada on Best of Me, or Jay on Fiesta

now they have an almost spoken word of explicit content and relentless criminality and sex offenses lol

 

[Nigerianwonder]

Figured if the coli hates it it must be fire.. just listened and was not disappointed. Album is dope. My only criticism is its a bit long and some tracks could have been left off and I would sequence it a bit differently but all in all its fire. Nobody dropping an album full of slow ballads in 2024. Usher has always made dance music as well as slower songs. This is all in the same vein.

Yall need yall ears checked but then again there is a 20 page thread on that flopped wack weedplate benny the butcher album thats pinned so that explains it.

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

I had high hopes but the comments got me like
not even sure I should bother listening

 

[twan83]

For y’all that have been consistently listening to Usher for a long time, how we’re Here I Stand, Raymond vs Raymond, and Looking 4 Myself? Outside of singles it’s been years since I’ve listened to a full Usher project and I’m trying to hear some legit bops and slower love songs.

Here I stand is damn good imo love that album has that mature r&b music that grown shyt
Raymond v Raymond was solid
Looking for myself didn’t really care for

 

[breakfuss]

For y’all that have been consistently listening to Usher for a long time, how we’re Here I Stand, Raymond vs Raymond, and Looking 4 Myself? Outside of singles it’s been years since I’ve listened to a full Usher project and I’m trying to hear some legit bops and slower love songs.

I really enjoyed Raymond v Raymond. The other two are weaker imo.

 

[SNG]

Am I tripping but I swear the dream did the I love U track like 8 years ago.

 

[Dynamite James]

It's not Confessions

But it's not trash

The record with Her, Please You, Ruin, Good good, Lucky are highlights

Everything else was good to alright

Some of the songs grew on me after listening some more.

 

[Dynamite James]

For y’all that have been consistently listening to Usher for a long time, how we’re Here I Stand, Raymond vs Raymond, and Looking 4 Myself? Outside of singles it’s been years since I’ve listened to a full Usher project and I’m trying to hear some legit bops and slower love songs.

This a good one right here

 

[CrimsonTider]

They regress like crazy the older they get trying to follow the latest trends and it never works, they always look like the old man or old woman in the club

What trends is he chasing with this?

He’s just a legacy artist

 

[I love Latina women]

What trends is he chasing with this?

He’s just a legacy artist

I’ll be honest @CrimsonTider i ain’t even listened to the album yet

Besides I was speaking in general

 

[SNG]

I am the party got that confession vibes to it

shyt Fye

Usher need to spin the block and give us an ep of the Jermaine Dupri and B-Cox cuts that didn’t make the album.

 

[T.he I.nformant]

Y’all wildin shyt fire

 

[T.he I.nformant]

I had high hopes but the comments got me like
not even sure I should bother listening

Pull ya skirt up and stop letting other muthafukkas dictate what you do