Usher Wants Sexy Back

via bossip:

Here’s what Usher had to say in regards to FALLING OFF BIGTIME after marrying Tameka Foster and putting out Here I Stand

“I had checked out,” the singer acknowledges. “I went all the way into being super husband and super dad, thinking, ‘I’ve got to be serious all the time. I’ve got to be the man.’ I put my swagger down for a minute, but I didn’t throw it away. Now it’s time to get it back.”

Somebody get this dude some bengay, he sounds like an old cornball with that swag sh*t!

Usher’s team doesn’t sound much better… even his A&R agrees Ush’s image has become stale as hell, detailing how the game plan for the new album involved some major freshening up.

It was more about “we’ve got to get this old-man shit off you; you’ve got to have some fun,” says Mark Pitts, who A&R’d the project and is president of black music for Jive Label Group. “We said, ‘We’ve got to get the guys wanting to be him and the girls wanting to do him.’ That was our approach.”

The story also confirms that Usher has ditched momager Jonetta Patton again and has AEG Live CEO Randy Phillips managing him now… Sounds extra nervous to us.

And while Usher worked with Dre & Vidal, Pharrell Williams, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Polow Da Don, Johntá Austin, Jermaine Dupri, Bryan-Michael Cox, Sean Garrett, the Runners, Jim Jonsin, Rico Love, Ester Dean and Jive labelmate Miguel, many of these names are the same ones that failed to help Ush deliver the last time around.

It also sounds like most of his team seems to be hinging the success of the new album on his Nicki Minaj collabo “Lil Freak.”

Do y’all think that joint is even good enough to be getting anybody’s swagger back??? Is Usher still that guy, or should he go ahead and start plotting on Brian McKnight and other “old heads” audiences?

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