Usher Plans To 'Save' R&B With New Album
Posted by Ashish on 07.14.2003
R&B singer wants to go back to roots...
Usher is hard at work on his new album, which will include production from Babyface, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, Andre Harris, Vidal Davis, and the Neptunes.
"[With] this one, I just really wanted to be about my vocal ability. I wanted to make real music. I feel like soul music, R&B music is somewhat in jeopardy. It's in trouble right now. If I can make a contribution to R&B, then that's what I'll do."
"If you go back to what R&B is, or what soul really is, I think the work ethic is way down. You look at the videos, you see women shaking their ass, you see the cars, you see the 22s. It's really marketing, if anything. It's not real music; that sh-- don't make me move. I'm trying to get back to that. I wanna get back to where it's really about the performance.
"Where I come from and how I was raised was to really understand music. It's past just a hit record — it's about the performance. You gotta find a way to get it, so I'm gonna do that with my album and hopefully set the trend and continue to keep it going."
Usher plans to drop his first single from the new album on October 13th, followed by the album on November 18th.
