Usher - Hard II Love (September 16, 2016) Album • Page 2

i dunno i dont think this is gonna be remotely as good as confessions, which is a classic

 

Probably a safe bet

 

Might not be on that level, but at this point I'm thinking it'll easily beat any of his albums since then (not a huge achievement, but still). Really really digging everything so far though, so I'm staying optimistic.

 

Confessions makes a fantastic EP.

 

lol on Tidal now
Try the TIDAL Web Player

 

Hmm

 

Lol of course it is

 

I'm in a library and almost lost my shit to "Tell Me" like 3 times during the song... Jesus.

 

Overall I really enjoyed this... a couple tracks that weren't that memorable on first listen, but I did NOT expect the highs to be nearly as high as they were. If you'd told me a few months ago that an Usher album in 2016 would be this good I would've laughed.

 

Also the movie soundtrack song should've been a bonus track rather than the "closing track"... kind of a pointless distinction but that one doesn't really fit at all imo.

 

TIDAL posted like a 24 million dollar loss last year they better keep these exclusives coming

 

The most surprising part of this album is that a lot of it is blatant trend-hopping just like he's tried on a lot of his more recent albums... but this time it's just done really, really well. He's found modern sounds that actually work great for him, this album actually has a consistent "sonic identity", and it even has an ark... starting with the "bangers" and getting to a stretch of more emotional songs at the end. And "Tell Me" is just straight-up phenomenal, I was not expecting him to ever have a single song that good in this decade. I'm very surprised to say the least.

 

He put out "Climax" and "Crash" this decade which are as good as anything he's done imo.

 

True... there's songs on here that easily top "Crash" though imo

 

I'll be the judge of that! That would make me super happy, honestly one of my favourite songs of the year.

 

I'm very impressed with this so far if you can't tell by my 5 other posts hah... I think you'll enjoy.

 

correct

 

Missed the news this dropped last night, excited to check it out at some point today

 

This has some good stuff but feels like he thought he had to sound like PND, Tory Lanez, Bryson Tiller at times

 

i would love usher's track by track ripoff of late nights

 

Yeah after a couple more listens I agree with this... overall I enjoy it and think the highlights are REALLY strong, but it could stand to be a bit more original.

 

out on apple music now, i assume spotify as well

Usher Is A Huge Star, So Why Isn’t There More Hype For His Great New Album?

 

I liked most of this but much like Climax on his last album, nothing even came close to how much I love Crash.

 

This sounds like a more mature/diverse record compared to his previous releases; lots of different sounds going on. Reminds of kind of what JT did with his first 20/20 album

 

"Bump" is a very easy highlight for me.