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Usher has called Here I Stand his “grown and sexy” album, and he’s half right. Apart from a couple of Aup-tempo tracks by Danjahandz (“Appetite”) and Scandinavians-of-the-moment Stargate (“What’s a Man to Do”), the production is cocktail-lounge crunk, full of splashy cymbals, jazzy electric guitar and tinkly pianos.
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As it is, it merely stands him in good stead amongst the many contenders for his throne.
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A little too sitting-on-the-dock-of-the-bay for Chris Breezy–trained earbuds, perhaps, Here I Stand is pure grown-man bidness.
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R’n’B lothario sings the praises of monogamy on patchy fifth album.
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Now that he's got the American Dream, he sounds like he's stopped trying.
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Usher always delivers musically, but his perpetual claims of excellence and of being on the "cutting edge" (though it's unclear by whose definition and compared to what), his music is almost always just one notch above mediocrity.
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So smooth nothing sticks, there's no guts, no depth and no matter how much he protests to the contrary, nothing to believe.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 24 out of 34
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Mixed: 3 out of 34
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Negative: 7 out of 34
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JamarioP.Jul 16, 2008
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marionc.May 30, 2008Of course it won't sell or be a spopular as confessions or 8701 bc the radio played so many big singles but overall this was a good cd.
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DJKNIGHTXIIIMay 27, 2008Lovely album from Usher. If we are just to talk about the stunning ballad Moving mountains then the album deserves a 10 for that track alone.