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Usher is teaming up with music producer/DJ David Guetta for his next album. The man behind mega-hits such as Kelly Rowland’s “When Love Takes Over” and the Black Eyed Peas “I Gotta Feeling” may be assisting Usher in his transition to making electro dance music.

Usher met up with Guetta, as well as Akon, in Paris while on an OMG tour stop. He told a Daily Star reporter, “I’ve always been a friend of Akon’s and wanted to do something incredible with David Guetta, too. It’s by no means finished but we made a pretty cool song. I’d like to get a new album out early next year.”

He added, “There’s always something incredible coming from Europe, which I think the US is a little behind on. I’m really excited to be here and bring a little ‘rev-pop’ to the UK.” SOURCE

It’s clear, based on his “OMG” and “DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love” hits that Usher’s making less and less generic R&B.

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We all knew he was bit by the EDM bug a few albums ago but to now want to officially do nothing but EDM is surprising...or maybe not since it looks like that's what the trend is for a lot of pop (r&b/rock) artists these days and it doesn't seem like this genre isn't slowing down anytime soon as far as popularity goes, especially when you got artists like Rihanna going multi-platinum, getting tons of awards, & being #1 on various charts across the world.



Now all we need is for some artists to bring or put the soul back into EDM, we need a balance of some deepness in it for it to really connect back home where it belongs; or am I just being delusional?

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& your fool ass is cruising around in a time machine
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This is why Usher was never a musical leader in my eyes.....He's not someone that pushes the artform and never has been...And hey, it is what it is...I dig some of his albums, especially 8701...But really, dude was and has always been a puppet....If it was the in-thing to sing over dog whistles Usher would be jumping on the bandwagon....

GOAT of his era......long live Prince.....God is alive....

The move reeks of desperation and bandwagonism, if you ask me.

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For some reason, I read it as "This is why Usher is a musical leader in my eyes"

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going down the toilet

stateside

because fuck all that OONTZ shit


i will work harder


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laters

>because fuck all that OONTZ shit

weren't you going on and on about lcd soundsystem last year?

i listen to em & scissor sisters & a gang of other left field shit, doesnt mean i think everybody should be doing it

Yawn...

<--- Big Baller World Order

lol

>lol


Actually, he didn't go far enough.....

GOAT of his era......long live Prince.....God is alive....

I prefer Usher

>I prefer Usher


But it's not about who you prefer....That's all opinion, right?


I'm talking about talent and vision, which is not debatable.....

GOAT of his era......long live Prince.....God is alive....

i know what he's been doing outside of releasing albums, but the question stands, with the reassurance that quantity does not = quality

>i know what he's been doing outside of releasing albums, but
>the question stands, with the reassurance that quantity does
>not = quality


I'm not in the white boys' head like that..

All I know is Usher is wildly overrated...And this is coming from someone who actually likes some of his songs...

GOAT of his era......long live Prince.....God is alive....

But for me they're both equal artistically speaking, I don't see Justin as an Artist and Usher as an entertainer, they're both entertainers.

I never thought that Justin Timberlake was much of an artist. I mean, it's not like he's some Meshell Ndegeocello ... Maybe Im wrong (in this case educate me) but I think he's credited for a lot of things he didn't do, especially on this board.

I know JT had a vision on Lovesex whatever (I don't like that album anyway)but they both have talent. Who has the best chance of making a good R&B album or a game changing piece of music at this point ? Probably JT but right now he hasn't done anything that worth all of that hype IMO.

>>I prefer Usher
>
>
>But it's not about who you prefer....That's all opinion,
>right?
>
>
>I'm talking about talent and vision, which is not
>debatable.....

timberlake tries to hard and doesn't the goods.

they both in the same boat as broke waterboy mj knockoffs, but usher i can tolerte a bit more.

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>Now all we need is for some artists to bring or put the soul
>back into EDM,

there is plenty of artists or are you talking about the mainstream?


David Guetta = fast food garbage music

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>and he's willing to take that responsibility.


EPIC posting.....

GOAT of his era......long live Prince.....God is alive....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTykohWAPRg

damn, that show was classic.

damn, that skit is always hillarious.

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sorry Haters but Usher ain't going nowhere. i can't stand the music choices and his jacking everything MJ from head to toe,however the cat still counts and nobody younger than him can take him deal with it Haters.

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>sorry Haters but Usher ain't going nowhere. i can't stand the
>music choices and his jacking everything MJ from head to
>toe,however the cat still counts and nobody younger than him
>can take him deal with it Haters.

I.E.: *I'll get behind ANY artist that the Lesson criticizes and shit on any act that the Lesson praises*

Sorry Maxxx...lol...It's too easy....

GOAT of his era......long live Prince.....God is alive....

you can't diss the cat that brings you home the Bacon.

alot of haters and yet they can't take away his longevity and his stats.

sorry but nobody younger than him is seeing him on the song and dance man tip and you know this.

NeYo,Chris Brown,Mario,Trey Songz,Omarion are still warm up acts comebined to Usher.

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>you can't diss the cat that brings you home the Bacon.

what?!?!!?

>>you can't diss the cat that brings you home the Bacon.
>
>what?!?!!?


LOL...I know, right?

GOAT of his era......long live Prince.....God is alive....

>>>you can't diss the cat that brings you home the Bacon.
>>
>>what?!?!!?
>
>
>LOL...I know, right?



You are a clown

>>>>you can't diss the cat that brings you home the Bacon.
>>>
>>>what?!?!!?
>>
>>
>>LOL...I know, right?
>
>
>
>You are a clown


Really?....Nigga, r u stalking me now? Is that what's going on?

Come on dog...If you got issues with something I've said, then cool...But chill with popping up on some foolishness....

GOAT of his era......long live Prince.....God is alive....

vibe magazine has featured Usher Raymond on there cover for well over a decade and acting like Usher's pressence on vibe's cover hasn't helped murph in the pockets is not to cool.

ush been on your magazine covers quite a few times and that is what is meant by bringing home the bacon.

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>vibe magazine has featured Usher Raymond on there cover for
>well over a decade and acting like Usher's pressence on vibe's
>cover hasn't helped murph in the pockets is not to cool.
>
>ush been on your magazine covers quite a few times and that is
>what is meant by bringing home the bacon.


Contrary to your own opinion, employees at most publications do not operate as the Borg, Maxx...

Folks are not in some Stalin-eque regime....We share different views on even the acts we cover....

No one act brings home the bacon....Ads do, young Maxx...

Let's try to have a debate about music without bringing up people's gigs at every turn.....

If you want to defend Usher, that's cool..All the extras are not needed...Your opinion and reasoning is enough to hold water....

GOAT of his era......long live Prince.....God is alive....

and need to shut up for real, because you work for a company that puts said person on the cover which you work for.

you wrote wack reviews on R.Kelly and only talk down about acts you don't like. your bias is way over the top.

that is the mark of a Ole Jive turkey!!!!!!!!

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>that is the mark of a Ole Jive turkey!!!!!!!!

>you can't diss the cat that brings you home the Bacon.
>
>alot of haters and yet they can't take away his longevity and
>his stats.
>
>sorry but nobody younger than him is seeing him on the song
>and dance man tip and you know this.
>
>NeYo,Chris Brown,Mario,Trey Songz,Omarion are still warm up
>acts comebined to Usher.

Don't get it twisted...I dig some of Usher's shit...I just have issues with folks making him out to be some great act...He's basically Bobby Brown with a better voice and a smarter more ambitious career mindset...

I find the fact that he's doing the Euro Pop thing very telling....

GOAT of his era......long live Prince.....God is alive....

Michael Joe Jackson's plate now don't you get it twisted my brother tell the whole truth on that one.

Usher is good,not great imo, however he has his place and his career ain't lasted this long by accident.

i liked bobby more, however Usher has the better longevity and dedication.

if bobby had have had usher's drive and dedication than bobby might have been a hall of famer easily imo.

i give ush his due at sticking around and doing his thing.

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>you can't diss the cat that brings you home the Bacon.
>
>alot of haters and yet they can't take away his longevity and
>his stats.
>
>sorry but nobody younger than him is seeing him on the song
>and dance man tip and you know this.
>
>NeYo,Chris Brown,Mario,Trey Songz,Omarion are still warm up
>acts comebined to Usher.

horrible.. Usher is done. The nigga was tired as shit at the Superbowl. I also love the lazy ass performance when he was half stepping and sweating on the Bieber kid.

Usher had it... and when he fired his momma he lost it.... he had a few nice slow cuts and OMG is decent but the guy can't dance and sing anymore...

Chris Brown can dance circles around Usher right now.

>>sorry Haters but Usher ain't going nowhere. i can't stand
>the
>>music choices and his jacking everything MJ from head to
>>toe,however the cat still counts and nobody younger than him
>>can take him deal with it Haters.
>
>I.E.: *I'll get behind ANY artist that the Lesson criticizes
>and shit on any act that the Lesson praises*
>
>Sorry Maxxx...lol...It's too easy....

He likes to bash every single artist that got love here ...

they be hating because they ain't got a leg to stand on against my arugments. some of these turkeys be acting like they are on that Illuminati tip.

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-Sig-

“Why didn’t you do this in your own god damn country?"

-All Stah's view on undocumented immigrants wanting to be treated like human beings.

I need him to get married again and fade into the background.

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blah blah blah

just make an album that has those elements in it..

there are a lot of artists and producers making what some are calling Electronic Soul music or futuruistic soul etc..whatever.... Ursher would be well served fukking with producers like that...

but to come out and say I'm making a transition to electronic dance music tells me that he and his people may be over-thinking the appearne rather than getting him with producers that will make some interesting music with him

catch a tissue because Usher ain't going no where. Usher can do whatever he wants.

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but I like Ursher..

he just needs to step his game up. Seems like he's been mailing it in lately. Not a lot of content variety on them songs. It's like fill in the blank ______________ in/at the club. that's about it.

Neyo is making better songs, and is performing live with a live band more..... Ursh and the rest need to step they game up.

who are like warm up acts on a george wallace Sinbad telethon.

ush ain't got nobody in his ear like that. he caught la reid and babyface after the peak of laface as to getting better material imo.

no brother the acts i like count and are relevant,longevity,

the acts i like are like coke a cola, you stuck with them acts who still drink tab.

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no offense...

I just don't check for that column too much. Does nothin for me.

Questlove done told you R.Kelly is a Musical Genius.

best live late night performance he has every seen.

R.Kelly was so powerful live that he made Quest's fro darker and Jimmy Fallon was so excited he turned extra white.

you ain't got nobody seeing that.

Usher can sing/sang live.

you just like them rooty/pooty/ashy tired turkeys with no hits and no jams.

sorry grandpa but this is the 21rst century.

them turkeys you like sing live at the county fair and at a Jack in the Box Lobby free taco party and still can't pack a drive thru.

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to me ...musical geniuses do less lip syncing and singing over pre-recorded vocals and tracks....

Geniuses perform all the way live more..

dude when you get through watching "Chico and the Man" for the 999nth time you gonna step into the 21rst century and be a big ole R.Kelly fan.

Arruh tore it up Live on stage BROTHER MAN! did it up on the SOUL train Music awards show.

U MADD? i'll make a tight R.kelly mix disc for you Brother and you will be stepping by friday night with gators on.

everybody in the business does the same thing, now what makes you stand out is how far your stretch out your creativity.

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>he and his people may be
>over-thinking the appearne rather than getting him with
>producers that will make some interesting music with him

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I like Ursher...think he's talented..... If there is any R&B dude who could take current R&B back to the standard it should be at...It's him..

but for some reason it seems lately like they are purposely aiming lower than they should...


When you are as successful as Ursh has been...you don't need to make no damn formal announcement about a style change... He could work with whatevr produer he wanted and it would sell.

Ursher needs to fukks with some of these outside the box produers ...fukk with Shafiq Hussain...or Jack Splash...or Vikter Duplaix.... And just make a damn album...lol.

i hate it when ppl jump on to the EDM thing and act like they are so far ahead of the american curve

we invented modern electronic music and if he doesnt know this then he's just jumping on the bandwagon of whats moving units, as opposed to coming from a genuine appreciation for it.

which means its probably not going to be very lasting

they are way behind the curve, imo

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hip-hop-lite production and boring subject matter

i know there are exceptions but they are called exceptions for a reason

There's an abundance of great modern R&B being released.

You just won't hear it on the radio.

^^^^The truth....

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which is all usher has done throughout his career

-Sig-

“Why didn’t you do this in your own god damn country?"

-All Stah's view on undocumented immigrants wanting to be treated like human beings.

now that they wouldn't be under such pressure to turn out an assembly line beat, they'd actually make some cool music now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKEWsijB5AU

i agree, the Neps have branched out enough that there's much more possibility now... they could make some fucking trendsetting R&B...

But alas, in your/Garhartt's words

Usher likes the POO POO(NTZ).

but Usher would have killed that song. Would have better than this OONTZfest on which he's about to embark.

...but he didn't and that's one reason why I didn't care for that song .

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& your fool ass is cruising around in a time machine
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Is it the label? The "Man"? Fans? Usher has a decade plus long career, sold out arena tours, millions or record sales and he's played a part in the career of one of the biggest pop stars in the world right now so why does he "need" to do this? This doesn't read like this is where his heart is...more just like he is following trends. You would think at this point in his career he would make the type of music he wants to make rather than try and keep up with the latest trend or fad.

a great album.

From that point they said, hey, "LETS GO ALL IN!"

"Slaves got options...cowards aint got shit." --PS
"Once upon a time, little need existed for making the distinction between a nigga and a black—at least not in this country, the place where niggas were invented" -- Donnell A

On Futuresex/Lovesounds though

I always thought Timbaland by that point was just jacking the shit out of the europop scene which entered that 80's phase a couple of years before.

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what

>Now all we need is for some artists to bring or put
>the soul back into EDM, we need a balance of some
>deepness in it for it to really connect back home
>where it belongs; or am I just being delusional?

"Can You Help Me (DFA Remix)" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK2ZHWx7J0M

"Burn (BuZZ-Boi's Axwell Mix)" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muIO0edBGA4

"Nice & Slow (Rancido's Passport Mix)": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfCKYhwfPNk

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& your fool ass is cruising around in a time machine
trying to collect props for a couple of sociopathic degenerates" - s.blak

I like his first album, I got the next 3, but don't even really remember listening to them anyway.

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Usher's last two major crossover hits, "OMG" and "DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love", were straight-ahead electro pop. So, as an artist who is rooted in the pop charts, why wouldn't he continue to milk the current formula that's working for him (and his peers)?

I don't get it. In the history of r&b music it's always been about following trends. From doo-wop to disco to hip-hop, the main focus of r&b has always and will always be about following trends, especially since the very bread & butter of it is dance-centric music. This how the music evolves and someone manages to keep themselves relevant correct? EDM is the future right now, especially with how technology is moving along at a extremely fast pace.

Every so often you get someone who does something astoundingly different that brings pop music to a new direction, but those people are really far and few in between. What matters most is if the music is good and someone enjoys it.

...I'm just surprised he's now deciding to do or announce this like no has done this in the r&b genre...uuuuuummmmm I guess he didn't listen to Kelis, Flo-Rida, Ciara, or Rihanna's last albums, or maybe he did; but I was hoping would go the maybe in similar but different direction with his sound.

I think a lot of the replies in this post is more who you might be referring to as those who aren't recieving the news as a positive or even a decent trade off.

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neyo is a old man walking with two notes

trey no songz is a lounge act of R&b and always waiting in the wings

chris brown just a ok act.

Usher is in a catch 22, he is better than all them cats younger than him, but he ain't seeing no R.Kelly or legends that are better and yet he is wildly successful and doesn't have anyone to give him money songs and to challenge him and yet he has a formula that works,

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