208. Usher – Climax

Usher, one of our era’s great entertainers (honestly) has proved himself willing to follow the trends – the boisterous likes of euro-dance hits like “Scream” and “DJ Got Us Fallin In Love” prove that. However, it takes no skill to follow a trend – more one to buck against it. And really, that’s what Climax does – produced by trend setter, Diplo, it sits against the obvious “boom boom” movement and instead opts for some subtlety and delicacy, traits that are painfully missing in modern pop music.

True, I doubt Usher is suddenly on his way to becoming a wholly interesting artist seeking to buck trends but it’s a relief to see this kind of genre breaking from the world’s biggest.

Let’s hope he doesn’t finish here, there’ll be a lot of cleaning up to do

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