![]() "Sometimes people want to hold onto the image they have of you."Īlthough he still has a baby face and his youthful appeal, Usher is clearly ready to break free from his old reputation. They still want to hold onto Usher as this young guy," said Platt, the West Coast creative head of Urban U.S., EMI Music Publishing. "That's the problem with the public in general. "Big Jon" Platt, a music-publishing executive who has known Usher since he was a 17-year-old heartthrob, said any backlash is the result of people not being ready to see Usher grow up. Some suggested that Foster pushed Usher's mom out, but he denies that - or that he "left" his mother at all (she still lives near his Atlanta home). There was also more gossip fodder when Usher dropped his mom as his manager. "It's not like I got caught with a gram of coke in my car or speeding or was caught for murder, so why would I be ridiculed? That's why I don't understand." "I'm a guy that decided to marry a woman - a black woman - that wasn't perfect," he said. That's easier to take than a story of righteousness," said Usher, dressed in all denim and looking intense as he sat backstage between rehearsals for his recent appearance on Saturday Night Live. ![]() When the two wed last year, and she later gave birth to their son, Usher Raymond V, there were plenty of good wishes but not universal joy. Maybe it was their age difference (she's eight years older), or the fact that Foster had been married before and has three children. But his connection with his stylist, Tameka Foster, ignited the blogosphere with negative feedback. He has had a string of public romances, notably his three-year relationship with Chilli from TLC. Let me talk about the pleasures of a relationship."įor some fans, Usher's relationship has been hard to accept. "I wrote about so many tumultuous relationshipsĪnd issues that I've had in relationships and people reacting to it. "I wanted to make substance-filled records that are off the beaten path from what is typical. "When I started writing this album, I wasn't married. He has moved on from the party scene to the family life, and his new sense of responsibility has spilled over into his music on the disc, which comes out today. ![]() Sure, the first single on his new album, Here I Stand, might talk about Love in This Club.īut Usher is newly married and the father of a 7-month-old son. Lyrics about commitment and enduring relationships were hard to find. NEW YORK - For more than a decade, Usher's music has been the soundtrack to a player's lifestyle.įrom singing about casual sex when he was 15 to the devastating details of an affair on his blockbuster album Confessions, his songs have been filled with lust, passion, romance, partying and, yes, sometimes love - but young love, new love, fleeting love. ![]()
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