The result is basically the same as every other trap record you’ve ever heard in your life. On A – his latest, LP, umm, mixtape, err, EP, uhh playlist? I’m not sure it even matters anymore these days – he teams with producer Zaytoven, the architect behind pretty much every big trap track of the past five years. If you hoped Hard II Love, Usher’s painful attempt for trap relevancy, was a one-off, I’ve got some bad news for you. So when Usher announced the surprise release of A, fans starving for a return to R&B’s glory days immediately began bombarding social media, hoping, praying that THIS would be the Confessions sequel they’ve been praying for.īut for the three of you out there dying for a sequel to 2016’s abysmal Hard II Love, it’s your lucky day!įor the rest of us, go grab some cotton balls out of the medicine cabinet. It’s futile to try to recapture the lightning in the bottle that happened way back then. Albums aren’t created in a vacuum they’re the product of their time period. We’ve talked before how unfair it is to expect an artist to remake an album that dropped well before y’all knew what a tweet was.
It’s been 14 years since that album cemented Usher as a modern-day R&B icon, and like MJ and Esco before him, it became the album that all future work would be compared to – and the sound fans crave for him to revisit. Nas had Illmatic.Īnd Usher Raymond? The gift and the curse of his career has been Confessions.
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