Usher's magnum opus "Confessions" turns 18 years old this month

[Ashley Banks]

I loved the whole album. I think I didn’t like one song, it was like throwback or something like that.

Burn
Confessions part 1&2
Caught up
Superstar
Bad girl (when he performed that with Beyoncé )

My mom made me my own CD without that’s what it’s made for, can u handle it, and do it to me. Because they were inappropriate but they’re good songs too.

 

[RennisDeynolds]

One of the GOAT albums then Mariah came through shortly after and took over with Mimi . What a great time for R&B, it was dominating the charts


Maybe one day R&B will make a come back



Throwback and Seduction >>>>>

 

[patscorpio]

man i hated usher's music in the 90s..but this and 8701 albums were college soundtracks for me...confessions was a monster

 

[patscorpio]

i always wondered why my boo was put in as an extra track? it was a single too

all i know is slow dancing/grinding on a random chick in a club to that was

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

game rules: No cap, not cut.
but even superman couldnt turn your love down
I slipped up, slipped in , hey man what the hell you doing?

Rawdog is a never, I know I know better

Heard a whisper "dont worry im safe "

Didnt matter cause its already too late
I was lost in the sauce, dead wrong, but I aint stopping now

Parlaying in the bushes again, didnt think about what I was putting in it

 

[Legal]

game rules: No cap, not cut.
but even superman couldnt turn your love down
I slipped up, slipped in , hey man what the hell you doing?

Rawdog is a never, I know I know better

Heard a whisper "dont worry im safe "

Didnt matter cause its already too late
I was lost in the sauce, dead wrong, but I aint stopping now

Parlaying in the bushes again, didnt think about what I was putting in it

Gotta admit, this was the soundtrack to all kinds of reckless fukkery as a youngin.

 

[re'up]

To me, his first two, and more so My Way are his true classics, on a personal level, part of that is just I paid more attention to Usher in 1997/1998, than Confessions, although You Got it Bad was a classic, I think that was the single for the shelved album. 8701. My Way is just so timeless and well produced. The beats on songs like Confessions, don't compare to Nice & Slow, or Slow Jam. He did pave the way for more modern and messy R&B, by crafting the whole concept around that whole situation.

 

[JayStarwind]

To me, his first two, and more so My Way are his true classics, on a personal level, part of that is just I paid more attention to Usher in 1997/1998, than Confessions, although You Got it Bad was a classic, I think that was the single for the shelved album. 8701. My Way is just so timeless and well produced. The beats on songs like Confessions, don't compare to Nice & Slow, or Slow Jam. He did pave the way for more modern and messy R&B, by crafting the whole concept around that whole situation.

"Slow Jam" beat is literally a re-make of Midnight Starr though...what's special about the beat? "Nice & Slow" is a classic but I'd argue most of Confessions has better beats than that single song.

 

[re'up]

"Slow Jam" beat is literally a re-make of Midnight Starr though...what's special about the beat? "Nice & Slow" is a classic but I'd argue most of Confessions has better beats than that single song.

Part of it is just age, I was maybe 12 when I heard "Slow Jam", I didn't know the original. The production on that late 90's R&B, especially Usher, is so influenced by that Devante/Jodeci style of production, I don't have the technical terms, but the depth of the sound, the instruments, aren't the same as more Rodney Jerkins style beats like "You Got It Bad", or "Confessions", "Burn". They aren't as crisp, they are lighter. Someone can explain this better.

I didn't really know "One Day You'll Be Mind" either. You Make Me Wanna is another classic beat.

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

"Slow Jam" beat is literally a re-make of Midnight Starr though...what's special about the beat? "Nice & Slow" is a classic but I'd argue most of Confessions has better beats than that single song.

Its the nostalgia talking, breh. The man clearly has tons of memories attached to those two albums so its likey the reason he prefers them over confessions

 

[JackRoss]

Wow that's crazy. I know this an old thread. Times change, people change. Damn

 

[JayStarwind]

Part of it is just age, I was maybe 12 when I heard "Slow Jam", I didn't know the original. The production on that late 90's R&B, especially Usher, is so influenced by that Devante/Jodeci style of production, I don't have the technical terms, but the depth of the sound, the instruments, aren't the same as more Rodney Jerkins style beats like "You Got It Bad", or "Confessions", "Burn". They aren't as crisp, they are lighter. Someone can explain this better.

I didn't really know "One Day You'll Be Mind" either. You Make Me Wanna is another classic beat.

Are you saying that the production on 8701 and Confessions is less crisp than on My Way?

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

As far as R&B was that the last “event”?

Cant think of anyone being universally anticipated after that

 

[JayStarwind]

As far as R&B was that the last “event”?

Cant think of anyone being universally anticipated after that

Probably not on that scale but Anti by Rihanna was highly anticipated.

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

As far as R&B was that the last “event”?

Cant think of anyone being universally anticipated after that

Mariah Carey's Emancipation of Mimi the following year was a huge deal