.:PALOMA LUZ REVIEW:. USHER'S LATEST

HERE IT IZ...

In order to fairly critique an album you must judge it as a standalone work of art; not based on the merits of past works of art. Being the follow-up album to 'Confessions', 'Here I Stand' overall is a good album. It will definitely be on heavy iPod rotation. It is not a flawless album, which you might expect it to be. Usher did raise the bar with 'Confessions'. Based on lyrics, composition and vocal quality he met that bar on a lot of the tracks. The theme of this album is nice…The world definitely needs some good R&B. I do wish there was at least one more dance track cuz the Will.I.Am song didn’t give it to me like I wanted. 'Here I Stand' is definitely grown and sexy. If I was to give it a rating out of 5 I would give this album 4 out of 5 stiletto pumps!

Top Tracks
Love in This Club: This song cranks no matter where you are…
Moving Mountains: The song is well composed, well written and beautifully sung
Something Special: Nice feel good track…adding it to my wedding reception playlist
Best Thing: Nice collabo with Jay-Z
Love you Gently: I got another playlist in mind for this song ;)
His Mistakes: Real talk and overall a great song… love it!
Appetite: I’m not a man so I can’t personally identify, but hot song minus the verse he spits. He should’ve left that to the professionals.
Love in This Club, Pt. 2: This does everything a great remix should do
Here I Stand: Beautiful song to his wife…another one for the wedding playlist
Trading Places: quite sexy although there is one questionable line (

Take Em or Leave Em
What’s Your Name: descent dance track with Will.I.Am but its missing that usual Usher stank
This Ain’t Sex: Head Boppin Michael Jacksonish song
What’s a Man to Do: It’s aight… LOL… Nothing wrong with it per se just not loving it
Lifetime: It’s a nice ballad, but the album would’ve been ok without it

Keep it sexy ;)

-Paloma Luz