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I'm a little bit late on this but this is REALLY GOOD. Already one of my favourite of his singles. I love the video as well.

Album is called "Looking For Myself", out June 12th.

 

Hope the song can be a UK success, it's grown on me massivly after dismissing it at first.

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Next single is called 'Scream'. Produced by Max Martin (according to Popjustice) and goes to radio tomorrow, according to ThatGrapeJuice. There's a snippet on ThatGrapeJuice:

 

http://thatgrapejuice.net/2012/04/usher-an...pet/#more-74972

 

Was confused as to whether a thread for this would go in the Dance or RnB forum so I just threw it in here.

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I'm surprised by Scream. I was under the impression he was taking it back to "proper" R&B.
Well.... this is a bit shit. It's not overwhelmingly awful but it's disappointing he had to go back to club bangers, it's not as if Climax didn't do well or anything! Thing is, the public will eat it up and Scream will almost certainly go to #1, which he probably knows.

I kind of love that backing track repeated throughout the song. The production however could be much better. There must be at least a dozen ways of how that amazing sample could be used in a much better way.

 

'Climax' was really a fluke, wasn't it? :(

The subject material is at least marginally better than his previous club bangers (by which I mean it skips the whole picking-girl-up-in-the-club bit and goes straight for the sex references) and it's quite well-produced but it's such a letdown after "Climax". He's supposed to have a Swedish House Mafia collaboration up his sleeve for the album, why not release that?
Scream is awesome all the way.. Probably the technically best pop song of the year. Overall not the best regarding all the factors obviously but if you want a pop hit this is how you do it.
I actually really love 'Scream'. I am not against him doing 'club bangers' as long as they are good, and this is the first of his dance songs that has been actually very good. I can see why people are disappointed after 'Climax' suggesting he was taking it back to R&B, but I would actually think an album which is half back to old-school R&B and half more dancy would be brilliant, as long as the songs are good, and so far for me the first two singles, despite being different genres and sounds, have been very good quality.

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