Usher - My Way (3.5 Stars)
Added 5/9/2008
See the biggest thing that kept this album from being something truly speacial, was its shortness. Given it only has 10 tracks, one being a remix of another track on the album, it just didnt leave you with enough matireal to really stick with you. But this album was definetly Ush's coming out party. He had a album before this one, but it went pretty much unnoticed and barely even charted. But with the help of three massive hit singles, the mid tempo dance song, "U make Me Wanna", the baby maker, "Nice & Slow", and the more danceable track and title track "My Way", he had a fan base wait for this album. Now, there are some great songs on this album. But there are also some songs that make me wonder. And when you only have a ten track album, that doesnt leave alot of room for error. One of the few good album tracks is "Bedtime" written and produced by the legend Babyface. Its another slow jam. Speaking of slow jams, "Slow Jam" with Monica, is another stellar track, but this song has more of a... well slow jam feel to it, not so much baby making feel. But where he goes wrong on this album is when he does songs like the attempted street banger "Just Like Me", where you can obviously tell that he was trying to come off as a thug on this song. And on "Comeback", you get teased really bad with the really sweet mellow piano intro, but then when the song starts up, it turns into another thug song. And then, i honestly dont under stand why he put the identical remix to "You Make Me Wanna" on this album. The only difference between the original and the remix is that the remix has a 50 second intro. Otherwise its the exact same song. But, overall this album isnt bad, it just doesnt establish Usher as more than just another R&B singer.
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B-
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Usher is starting to really establish himself with this disc. You can hear all the elements coming together as he develops into the 'star' who eventurally creates 'BURN' and 'CONFESSIONS'
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Not as good as I remembered it being when I was younger. Probably still the best out of all of his music.
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no matter how old this cd this is....it is still awesome! usher always has awesome dance music and i absolutely love some of the slow songs on this cd!
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Sophmore Album From R&B superstar
Added 12/14/2006
I initially thought Usher would be another causality in the game of R&B but he came back onto the scene hard with his My Way CD. The lead single U Make Me Wanna didn't really impress me much but his follow up Nice & Slow is the song where I finally gave Mr. Raymond his props. Usher is the strongest at ballads which is ever evident on this CD with Nice & Slow, Bedtime, his cover of Slow Jam and the timely I Will. My Way is the album that pushed Usher to the forefront it severs as his maturity album the same way Don't Be Cruel did for Bobby Brown.
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Decent Live Album
Added 12/14/2006
Let's face it, Usher Live was only released to milk all the soon to be superstar but it's still a decent Live album. All of Usher's singles up to this point expect for Can U Get With It were featured in LIVE renditions.Usher really shows promise and apperication of old school music with his all too brief but excllent covers. The covers start out with the intro from Bobby Brown's Don't Be Cruel and then blends into Every Little Step. Usher then goes into ballad mode covering Rock Witcha, Roni, I Need Love and Tender Love which leads into his own slow jams Bedtime and the classic Nice & Slow. I really would like to hear Usher do an album of covers, I'd think he'd kill Marvin Gaye's Sexual Healing and Prince's Adore. All in all a decent Live album.
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Usher does too many remakes and versions of each song
Added 7/31/2005
Usher is a great talent but at least a third of these songs are remakes. Bobby Brown did Roni (written by Baby Face in 1988; this is a lackadasical version). Tender Love, Every Little Step, Don't be cruel, etc... are all remakes. If you search some of these songs on the internet, Usher even gets credit for them. It's almost like he did this CD to make money only. He seems to be going through the motions on this CD and doesn't have that great energy he usually shows. It's almost as disappointing as having 3-4 versions of one song (Part 1, Part 2, etc...) and calling each part a song (he does this now). I've seen him live and this CD sucks compared to what he can do. Very disappointing. It was released in 1999 when people forget he wasn't exactly burning up the charts all of the time; which may attribute to the remakes and his lack of energy. He seems to give just enough to get by.
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Good But Far From His Best
Added 1/21/2003
Usher has taken the world by storm with all of this albums.
Personally i think MY WAY was this best album yet.
8701 was jammmin' too.
Live is a good album 4 usher fans but the cd does get boring..
If u want a really good Usher album buy My Way or 8701.
This album could've been better, however i'm not sorry i got it because some songs do sound nice in the Live version especially Nice and Slow.- Dat song Rockz!!
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