Step One of “Truth Hurts”: He at first accuses his paramour of creeping around with other men.Įxample of said accusation: “Whatever you was workin’ / I hope it was worth it, baby / Truth hurts / I got reason to believe you’ve been foolin’ around”. Extra points for not varying production techniques between Step One and Step Two, so it hits us harder.Įxpected reign on pop charts for this single: Four weeks at #1, probably in May.ĭifferent song on Confessions that follows same Step One/Step Two template: “Truth Hurts.” Tertiary reason for brilliance of “Burn”: Jermaine Dupri’s production, combination of robot noises, fakey synth strings, and Babyface guitar lines. Recent songs ripped off by melody line of “Burn”: “Ignition (Remix)” by R.Kelly, “Don’t Wanna Try” by Frankie J. Dude can just flat-out SANG, he proves that here, it’s an epic performance. Secondary reason for brilliance of “Burn”: Usher’s voice, which has only gotten better. Then, in Step Two, he realizes that he misses her, that he’s made a huge mistake, he wants her back after letting her go which was a huge mistake, “It’s been fifty-eleven days / Umm-teen hours / I’m gonna be burnin’ / Till you return”. In Step One, Usher is breaking up with his girl, he’s not happy but he wants to move on, she’s really sad about this, she can’t deal with it, he feels bad for her but he knows that she’s going to have to deal with her sadness and suffer a little before she can accept it, he says “You know that it’s over / You know that it was through / Let it burn / Got to let it burn”. Main reason for brilliance of “Burn”: Two-step concept of song, which goes like this. Number of other songs that feature guest raps or crunk production: 0.Īmount of surprise this should occasion, given general template of success in R&B being what it is, which is to have as many guest rappers and producers as possible: Lots.īrilliance of follow-up single “Burn”: Intense, white-hot-flame-like. Reasons for the success of “Yeah!”: 5 (Lil’ Jon’s undeniable dirty groovemastery, Usher‘s smoove-ass singing, Luda’s guest rap, general theme of being in club and dancing and seeing lady who “from a 1 to 10 she’s a certified 20” and dancing with her and she’s all like “yeah!”, Lil’ Jon’s appearance in video spraying champagne all over). Songs that are full-fledged club über-crunk salacious but not really dirty club bangers produced by Lil’ Jon with guest spots by Ludacris that, as of this writing, have been #1 on the pop charts for seven weeks in a row: 1 (“Yeah!”) Number of these that are “intro” or “interlude” tracks: 3. Number of listed tracks on this album: 17.
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