RAYMOND VS RAYMOND USHER ALBUM CRACK

LilвЂ™ Freak goes a smidge darker, Ush leering at a hot girl in a club about the sheer magnitude of his pulling power, over a sped-up Stevie Wonder sample (LivinвЂ™ for the City, since you ask). Mars vs Venus even embarks on an extended metaphor in which UsherвЂ™s bedroom is its own solar system, complete with a perfect seaside postcard reference to the Big Bang. WeвЂ™re on far more familiar slow jam territory with There Goes My Baby, a sumptuous deep-pile carpet of seductive song, and Hey Daddy (DaddyвЂ™s Home), which impressively manages to rhyme вЂњflexingвЂќ with вЂњsexingвЂќ.

It probably wouldnвЂ™t work as legal defence. Guilty is a song to the judge at the divorce hearing. The former is an impassioned apology from an unfaithful (and famous) husband to his long-suffering wife, the latter a slightly different tale in which the husband has tried as hard as he can, but admits the marriage is doomed. In fact, FoolinвЂ™ Around, Guilty and Papers are the only songs to directly address the situation, and even then theyвЂ™re done with a story-tellerвЂ™s eye. These highlights suggest it's not the subject matter that drags this album down - but more its frequently dull and uninspired delivery.Judging from the title, this should be a similar affair to Marvin GayeвЂ™s Here, My Dear, an album which soundtracks the messy end to a high-profile marriage, with Usher lobbing bitter-bombs at his ex, Tameka Foster.Д«ut Usher is also every inch the modern businessman, and his business largely concerns singing about making love with girls, which he does here, a lot: divorce or no divorce. 'There Goes My Baby' shows that slow jams can be catchy as well as steamy, while 'Foolin' Around' recalls his hugely successful Confessions cut 'Burn'.

RAYMOND VS RAYMOND USHER ALBUM CRACK

Raymond does contain evidence that Usher can still crack out a decent tune if he wants to. Sadly, the remaining tracks about sex, troubled relationships and, er, more sex, are so lacking in variety that the album can't help feeling one-dimensional and bland.ДЇortunately, Raymond Vs.

The album's 15-strong production task, which includes hitmakers Jam & Lewis (Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson), Danja (Britney Spears, Madonna) and Sean Garrett (BeyoncГѓВ©, Chris Brown), keep things moving at a strictly bump n' grind pace throughout, briefly chaning gear for recent chart-topper 'OMG', a will.i.am-helmed club banger which sticks out like a diamond in the rough. 'Tonight we gonna do a lot of sexin'', the 31-year-old father-of-two promises on 'Hey Daddy (Daddy's Home)', while 'So Many Girls' finds him professing to be a hit with the ladies on an international scale: 'Asian, Caucasian, Bajan, Jamaican - I got a million.' On tracks like these Гўв‚¬вЂњ especially 'Guilty', on which he admits to 'leaving and having a little fun' - it's hard to sympathise with the man who seemingly couldn't sign 'them papers' fast enough. US buzz single and album track 'Papers' addresses the sore topic most explicitly, with Usher proclaiming: 'I'm ready to sign them papers.' In fact, the singer lays out the reasons for the end of his marriage - 'I know it's you I love / But then I also know it's you I don't like' - almost as if it were a piece of raw meat, filleted and splayed across the butcher's block and left for the gossip rags to pick clean.ДЇor much of the record, Usher seems keen to retract Stand's pro-monogamy message and trade it back for the sex-frenzied midtempo R&B of yore. Raymond finds Usher, somewhat inevitably, drawing on the breakdown of his marriage. However, less than two years later, the singer has dramatically shifted the subject matter for his latest offering, the rather ominously-titled Raymond vs. The last Usher album, 2008's Here I Stand, heralded the R&B star's growth from a libido-raging twenty-something to A Grown Man indulging in what he termed 'the true makings of love' with then-wife Tameka Foster.

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