8701 (Usher)
from Sony Music CMG
Disk 1: - Goin' Back To Cali - Intro-lude 8701 - U Remind Me - I Don't Know - Twork It Out - U Got It Bad - Pop Ya Collar - If I Want To - I Can't Let U Go - U Don't Have To Call - Without U - Can U Help Me - How Do I Say - Hottest Thing - Good Ol' Ghetto - U-Turn - T.T.P. - Separated
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Binding/Format: Audio CD
Release Date: 01/02/2003
Availability: dispatched within 24 hours
Index: Music
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Music Pod Price: £4.58
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Following on from 1997's My Way, 8701 crowns Usher's position as R&B man of the moment. Never mind the hype about Michael Jackson, Wacko is going to have some serious competition in years to come. Usher is a rap singer and dance man with a twist. Rather than being R&B record designed by committee, every track on 8701 pulsates with the sense of a life lived, a strongly personal point of view--from the street slang of "Pop Ya Collar", to the nostalgic groove "U-Turn" ("I had a hot flat top/...the sound was Bobby Brown"), to the song "If U Want To", where Usher sings: "I can take you from your man", with vulnerability rather than braggadocio. Though cowritten and produced with a variety of names, including She'kspere and The Neptunes, the solid hip-hop undertow comes courtesy of Jermaine Dupri. Mixing slow jams with edgy beats and sweet melody, Usher has pulled off a triumph. --Lucy O'Brien
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Associated music album categories: R&B and Soul & Modern R&B & Soul |
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