The impact of this album can really only be truly defined right now at this moment when you can put it in the CD player of your car and reflect and reminiscence on how you felt then and how you feel now, while listening to the album. So I would like to start by saying a big Congratulations to Usher. It’s strange how the understanding that this was done ten years ago, sheds a new light to how great Usher was back then and really still is. I was 17, going on 18 and there was nothing I loved more than music and no artist I loved more than Usher. I have listened over and over again to this album, trying to write this piece and all I can say is ‘ Amazing‘. Needless to say, the time is right for the phrase "just another" to be banned from use when discussing him.Can you believe that it’s been ten years since the release of Confessions?. Numerous chart hits have spun off each of his albums. Another pair - the upbeat "Caught Up" and the aptly titled "Burn" - also rate as some of the vocalist's best moments yet.
A small batch of Jam & Lewis productions, including the effortlessly gliding "Truth Hurts," continue to help raise Usher's loverman stock. The following "Throwback," produced by Just Blaze, sounds like it was made for the sole purpose of trailing Alicia Keys' "You Don't Know My Name." Like that hit, "Throwback"'s sensitively treated soul sample provides a nostalgic tint that complements the wistful, regret-filled tone of the lyrics. "Yeah!"'s crunk-meets-R&B foundation, featuring an instantly addictive eight-note keyboard vamp and one of Usher's most muscular turns, is so absorbing that Ludacris' 1500th guest verse floats by with little notice. On the other side of the coin, the smartest move Usher makes here is in allowing the Lil Jon-produced "Yeah!" to take its rightful place as the only club track any attempt at doing something stylistically similar would've failed miserably in its presence. At an hour in duration, it could be stripped of five songs and be far more powerful, especially since no one would have to do any wading to get to the meaty parts. Confessions' most detracting factor is its length.
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