In the United States, the album sold 1.1 million copies in its first week. The album's themes generated controversy about Usher's personal relationships however, the album's primary producer Jermaine Dupri claimed the album reflects Dupri's own personal story.

Primarily an R&B album, Confessions showcases Usher as a crooner through a mixture of ballads and up-tempos, incorporating musical genres of dance-pop, hip hop and crunk. Recording sessions for the album took place during 2003 to 2004, with its production handled by his longtime collaborator Jermaine Dupri, along with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and Lil Jon, among others. It was released on March 23, 2004, by Arista Records.

We want My Boo, Red Light, That’s What It’s Made For, and Burn remakes please!Ĭlick the button below the player to download this set for free.Confessions is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Usher. Our complaint is that this is entirely too short. It can be a little hard to tell which song he’s singing (initially) without looking at the tracklist, but that spin makes this a great tribute. The new style gives The Chicago Kid a chance to do adlibs without making the songs sound odd. The change in instrumentation, which lends more to the acoustic side that the original album, give you all the R&B realness that a young Usher gave but adds just a little more soul. Taking on three songs from the album’s special edition (the Confessions, Part 2 (Remix) was not included on the original album) and including audio from interviews that Usher gave when promoting the project, The Chicago Kid does a great job of giving you the essence of what made that album so great and yet still giving us some of himself as well. It’s been 13 years since the release of Usher’s Confessions, an album that is still very playable from beginning to end, and one person that was not willing to let the occasion go by without commemoration was BJ The Chicago Kid.

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