The more they know about you, the more they feel like they're there with you. I let a few of them out, you know. I've got a lot to say. I've got a lot of things and stuff built in me that I just want to let go of. Several of the songs in this album were conceptually based on a situation. Usher said, 'Yeah!
This record also introduces a new style for Usher, focusing on his voice and technique. Andre 'Dre' Harris and Vidal Davis listened to and felt that 'Usher really needs to sing hard and let people know his vocal ability'. Confessions was slated to be released on November 6, However, due to marketing issues, the scheduled date was moved to March 23 of the following year. Many songs were set aside for future use, including 'Red Light' and a remix of 'Yeah!
Usher and Arista held advance-listenings for the album, a few months before its actual release; he also appeared on TV guestings to promote Confessions. With strategies to boost the album's sales albeit threats of stealing music in the internet, Usher and his management readied a follow-up release of Confessions with an additional marketing blitz.
The label itself treated the version a new album, with full media advertisements. In selecting which single to release first, Usher and the label considered various marketing strategies. With many potential lead singles that could fare well in music markets, they were choosing between 'Yeah!
Usher was skeptical about whether 'Yeah! With much debate between two songs, 'Burn' was originally chosen as the lead single, with plans of filming its music video in late Released to street DJs and mixtapes, it was meant to cultivate fans who waited for three years since the release of The single again topped the Hot , giving the album its fourth consecutive number-one.
Usher supported the album with a two-month concert tour called 'The Truth Tour'. The tour set featured a small stage up on top of the main stage, where the band played with Usher and his supporting dancers left with enough room to perform. The smaller stage had a mini platform attached to it—which lowered to the main stage—and had two big staircases on both sides of it. To the left, a group of circular staircases climbed to the top, and to the right, there was a fire escape replete with steps and an elevator.
Kanye West, who had finished his own headlining tour for his album The College Dropout , was the opening act for 'The Truth Tour'. Preceding Usher's entrance was a short movie showing him getting dressed, following on with him performing the opening song 'Caught Up', with Usher dressed in all white. Each dancer threw one chair up to the top, with Usher already in hand with his own chair, with everyone following a set dance routine.
After Usher and his label held a few listening parties for the album, [20] controversies spread about the mistress-impregnating concept of 'Confessions Part II'. With lyrics Usher admitted to have written because of his guilty conscience, people assumed that he and Chilli broke up because he was unfaithful.
Amidst widespread rumors, Usher stated, 'People assume things, because as I said, I pull from my personal experiences to make my music. But cheating is not what caused the relationship to collide and crash At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 71, based on 13 reviews.
Sorta like Usher himself. The pleasure of listening to Usher is the pleasure of listening to a singer who knows exactly what he's doing. Which raises the question: are these supposed 'confessions' true? He loves toying with his audience this way, loves telling us exactly how bad he is, then daring us to believe him. In a mixed review, Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian criticized its 'production gloss' and said that, although Usher's 'fluid delivery' redeems weak tracks, there are only two 'great songs'—'Yeah!
The album earned Usher numerous accolades. In December it was ranked as the best solo album and second best overall album of the — decade. Confessions was commercially successful, selling 1. The success of the thirty-year-old record label, however, was attributed to its merging with Zomba Records.
The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard , becoming Usher's first number-one album. The album continued its dominance on the chart. D12 World by D12 ended its five consecutive weeks run at the top spot; [53] however, Confessions reclaimed the position the following week. With sales of more than eight million in , [61] Confessions was the most-shipped album of the year in the US. Avila, Composer - Issiah J. Wright, Composer - James Q.
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