So innuendoes about his tempestuous relationship with Ms. 1 singles, two Grammy awards and much gossip about how closely they mirrored Usher’s real life. Gone are the ballads about marriage and family that were the hallmark of “Here I Stand,” back are lyrics about seductions, reckless infidelities and bitter breakups that helped “Confessions” spawn four No. (Rico Love, in a phone interview, admitted the nod was intentional: “I always thought Chili and Usher were a great couple, so I did that to spark something.”)Ĭoming after a broken marriage and a 2008 album, “Here I Stand,” whose sales were roughly a tenth of the 10 million that his 2004 “Confessions” sold, Usher finds himself in the midst of an image makeover. “Rico’s crazy, right?” he said with a laugh, referring to Rico Love who wrote the song’s lyrics. But when asked if a particular lyric “Like waterfalls, your hair falls down to your waist” was intended as a nod and wink to his former girlfriend, Rozonda Thomas, Chili of the R&B group TLC, who scored a career-defining hit with 1994’s “Waterfalls,” Usher smiled broadly. Given that Usher was recently divorced, one might think he was contemplating life with his ex-wife. “No matter how long it takes to make it through whatever issues pull you apart, something pulls you back together. “The feeling of it is if you have a true connection with somebody, no matter what happens in life, it will always come back,” he said.
When the song ended, this 31-year-old singer, who records under his first name, motioned for an engineer to shut the sound system off and launched into an explanation of the tune’s origins.
Raymond” (Jive), played over the sound system, occasionally picking up an unlighted cigar, which he rolled in his mouth. ON a recent afternoon at an airy recording studio here, Usher Raymond IV leaned back in a chair and sang along as “There Goes My Baby,” a slow-burning ballad from his forthcoming album, “Raymond v.
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