ITS BEEN AWILE SINCE I HAVE HEARD THE FEELINGS OF ARTIST COME OUT THROUGH HIS/HER MUSIC…USHER GOT HIS SWAG BACK …I’M HAPPY FOR HIM, JUST GOES TO SHOW MOMMY ALWAYS KNOWS BEST..

H-TOWN GO TO HELL YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TYPING ABOUT.

same old same old RAYMOND

I LIKE DIFFRENT VARIETY OF MUSIC, DO A SINGER HAVE TO SING THE TYPICAL R&B MUSIC, WHICH IS” SEX, OR I CONFESS THIS OR CONFESS THAT OR SAME O , SAME O. THANK GOODNESS FOR POP AND ROCK, ITS HAS SO MUCH VARIETY, NOT THE SAME STUFF OVER AND OVER. THE AUDIENCES ACCEPT CHANGE, UNLIKE MOST R&B FANS, THEY EXPECT THE ARTIST TO BE THE SAME WAY FOREVER. PEOPLE CHANGE, THEY GROW, OPEN YOUR MIND UP TO DIFFERENT GENRE OF MUSIC, EATING THE SAME CORNFLAKES EVERYDAY GETS BORING, SOMETIMES YOU NEED NUTS, BERRY , RAISINS,A ND DATES FOR A DIFFERENT TASTE. GET OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE.

I LIKE DIFFRENT VARIETY OF MUSIC, DO A SINGER HAVE TO SING THE TYPICAL R&B MUSIC, WHICH IS” SEX, OR I CONFESS THIS OR CONFESS THAT OR SAME O , SAME O. THANK GOODNESS FOR POP AND ROCK, ITS HAS SO MUCH VARIETY, NOT THE SAME STUFF OVER AND OVER. THE AUDIENCES ACCEPT CHANGE, UNLIKE MOST R&B FANS, THEY EXPECT THE ARTIST TO BE THE SAME WAY FOREVER. PEOPLE CHANGE, THEY GROW, OPEN YOUR MIND UP TO DIFFERENT GENRE OF MUSIC, EATING THE SAME CORNFLAKES EVERYDAY GETS BORING, SOMETIMES YOU NEED NUTS, BERRY , RAISINS,A ND DATES FOR A DIFFERENT TASTE. GET OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE.

thats a grown up ass pic… love it!

oh, the mama drama was real… with all the internet lies, I didnt know…. wow!

Raymond v Raymond is a dope album title and with a song like “Papers” it could have been a concept album…. Monster = WTF?

The song “Papers” is more suited for someone like BB King who had the blues all his life: “Don’t Nobody Love Me But My Momma, and She Could Be Jiving Too”. Po, po, Usher.

Or, maybe Johnny Taylor could have sang it better: “It Cheaper To Keep Her”, but she left me no options. Its all her fault “I’m Ready To Sign Them Papers”.

@155 Ana, you sound like you’re gonna have one of those “open marriages” where you and your husband can sample a little nuts, berries, rasins and dates on your flakes, so you don’t fall into a boring comfort zone. Oh, were just speaking about music? lol!

He stood by her when all yall jumped on him for being with her. I respected Tameka regardless of her age and looks. Since the marriage is over, he wants to jump sides of the fans and regain his swagger. This marriage could have worked, he was just missing the bachelor lifestyle.

I like it….you can tell he is singing from the heart.

I don’t think the title is supposed to be his alter ego. When I read Raymond vs Raymond, I took it as Tameka Raymond vs. Usher Raymond. I don’t really care for the song. The track sounds liek something i’ve heard many times before and I don’t know why he’s trying to make a comeback at Tameka’s expense. She didn’t force him to marry her, he was the one fighting the media for her. I just want him to put out good music again like Confessions, then I will be a happy fan.

USHER RAYMOND v. TAMEKA RAYMOND

DON’T YOU GUYS GET IT. GO USHER YOU GOT IT THIS ROUND THAT’S FIRE.

TREADY,READY READY.. TO COP THAT ALBUM

I like it but he pulling a Ciara on us, releasing this slow sht as the 1st singles… like no one wants that first, we want to dance and see you dance. Urgh. I swear he needs to get next single together and Ms. Ciara better not comeback with her new album for of pop slow sht either or else Im done with both of their asses.

But I do love the Confessions sound but Confessions tracks is lightyrs stronger this.

Whew! Being his girl means be prepared to get ya biz aired to the world via his songs.

Raymond vs Raymond is OBVIOUSLY a throwback to the classic movie Kramer vs Kramer about Divorce. All his albums should be considered concept albums.

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Usher should be ashmed of himself..putting his wife/mother of his kids out there like that, just to gain fans back! (And yall say, they don’t care about what WE say..yeah okay!!!!)

He thinks if he talk about Tameka this way, all of his dumb groupie fans will run back to him and he will be back on top again………….well not me! I don’t appreciate these artists now days making everything a gimmick! I work too hard for my coins to waste on these celebrities any longer. The same celebrities that will see you in the street and will put a bodyguard on you if you even smile to hard at them!

GTFOH Usher…because this BS song is lame…sounds just like any other song he has made! NEXTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!

Team Tameka!

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someone give him his walking “papers” right out of the music industry.

Mmm, the song is OK but I have a feeling that Usher will have a lot of success this time around, contrary to what most on here say. People will really feel what he’s saying with this album(if it is indeed about his past marriage with Tameka). Plus i think all his young female fan base are coming back to him and they will support.
However, It’s impossible for him try to repeat the 2004 Usher- nobody gets that amount of success and hype twice. Take MJ’s Thriller for an example.

I don damn near lost my mamaaa…damn Ursh. I love it:)

i love my baby usher!!! XOXO… the song is hott!!!

All the Pleasure Ps, Trey Songzs and Marios step aside…. Usher is what the games been missing. Straight Fiyah!!!

I’M READY TO SIGN THOSE PAPERS…. PAPERS….

NOW THATS THE USHER I LOVE!!!! I LOVE THIS SONG!

Well I’ve read all of the comment posts are they’re all interesting! Everyone is entitled to their opinion and this song and usher’s career choices will be an endless discussion, so basically we all agree to disagree.

Listen people the confessions album success wasnt planned. Things like that just happen but fate or chance. The only thing you can do as an artist is try to make good music for the world to listen to. They can’t predict if it will be pass/fail, so for us to compare every song he does to the confessions album isnt fair. How can we say it sounds repetitve or predictable but in the same breathe say its nothing like confessions. How can you want the same thing but want it to be different?

Ok ok I understand using divorce and his relationship issues to sell his records may not be acceptable to some but we all know in the back of ours heads we want to know the juicy gossip. If he were to release an album without any song about her then all of you would feel cheated. Hell you all bought confessions in part to hear the cheating and foul shit he did to chilli and yall still want that usher but frown upon the same formula when he discusses tameka.

For months the majority of you all dogged tameka and her looks and age and even stated that he’s washed up, he turned his back on family, and was trippin. None of you actually were going thru this but had every opinion on how he went wrong, so when the man who was actually living through it wants to discuss it he’s wrong?

In that song he states how the relationship was and how it failed and crumbled. Never once did he call her a bitch or hoe. The same things stated in that song would be the same comments as if he were on oprah, tom joyner, or talking to essence magazine. Yall say he foul for airing out his marriage in this song but we are the same people that run to these websites looking for the latest gossip on all of our celebs. We’re backwards… Why are we so ready to see him fail? We dont put this much scrutiny on t-pain, dream, or any other artist that gives you the same type of music each album. So why are we all looking for him to fail?

One last question is it more acceptable for female artist to air their biz thru music than men? We’re comforting when the woman has been hurt and she wants to discuss but not for the man??? ummmm ok???

This beat is stolen!!! Gorilla Zoe has the same beat for his song So Sick off his album Don’t Feed Da Animals….The song is ok but i kinda lost my interest in Usher with Here I Stand..and producers who dont know how to make new beats consistantly

Great song & I’m ready to sign so papers my damn self.hahahah Black please sign those papers, so Tameka can continue to receive your financial papers and continue running her newly formed foundations.

U losers Raymond vs Raymond is what they have on a divorce file.

USHER THIS IS THE WORST WAY TO OUT UR EX, ESP WHEN U HAVE TWO SONS WITH HER! THATS MESS’D UP BC ITS CHILDISH IN A WAY.

TAMEKA STAY STRONG. AND USHER U GROW STRONGER BONES! MUCH LOVE AND BLESSINGS.

USHER GONNA RENIG ON THIS SON AND HIS NEXT SING IS GONNA BE “TAMEKA I CANT SIGN DEM PAPERS” LOL! THERE CUTE!

AND U HATERZ ON HER MIND UR OWN AND HANDLE UR OWN BAGGAGE!! OW!

Wow….I really thought I wasn’t going to like it, but surprisingly I did.

The light-bulb finally went off in his head that what all the blogs and his family and friends were telling him were true. It wasn’t going to last. It’s sad for a marriage to end, but when it didn’t even start off right, what other outcome could there truly be?

I really like this though. Now Usher, if you can give us this great music consistently, not just when you’ve screwed up then I would feel you are 100% relevant again. These young boys are coming at you, so consistentcy is the key. Also Quality or Quantity is not only what your fans look for, but we demand because your fans (me included) stuck by you during all of your relationship woes, so we Thank You for this.

We hear the sincerity and appreciate your honest reflection.

(This is all MY Opinion so don’t BASH me)
And, why is everyone acting like Usher shouldn’t speak his mind??? Tameka is in the new Ebony magazine talking about the marriage, like it wasn’t all that anyway. She may be a stylist, but she knows she wanted new clientele!!!!! Marrying Usher was not for love and I am not speaking on Blogs. They did not carry themselves like a married couple. The first, I say…6 months, they were always together. Then you see her partying in EVERY club like she didn’t have a care in the world. I know they have nannies, but when was she EVER with her CHILDREN??? That was the only main gripe i had with the relationship. She seemed like she felt as if she “arrived” and now she was going to Live it up. She and Usher were NOT READY!!! I truly think he was just trying to save face by marrying her becuase she was pregnant. She is not an ugly woman, but women know other women and men know the way other men think. As soon as I saw them photo’d together, I FELT he was about to be used. Usher seems as if he tried to stay in it just because he was being rebellious, but this decision had him kicking himself all the way to the courthouse. They both need to learn from this, move on and stay cordial for the kids. PERIOD.

He should have Let this one BURN! LOL

I always thought Tameka had “something” on Usher which is why he agreed to marry her. She was part of his backroom camp and probably saw a lot of stuff that he would never want to get out to his fan. I always believed this marriage was a “arrangment for damage control”. I remember reading about high profile male stars in the 40s and 50s like James Dean, Montgomery Cliff and Steve McQueen having to “give in” to powerful gay directors and producers in order to get choice roles and put their career on the fast track. I believe I read that Steve McQueen looked at these “favors” as a necessary evil but was not happy about it and never, ever wanted it to “leaked” out to the public especially with the type of roles he use to play. A lot of that information stayed buried until they past away and old girlfriends, actors, actresses put them on blast in their books. And some old hollywood actors were gay but was encouraged by the studio heads to marry or it would ruin their career. Just something to thing about………the “casting couch” was alive and well back then and it the same way in the music business today, which is also dominated by a lot of powerful gay men. (and for those non-history buffs - if you don’t know what the “casting couch is” google it.

CONTROVERSY SELLs! Just like with confessions. Usher knows what he is doing with this song.