We had a sound going for Aretha and we came together and started writing the song. When I was watching the video and thinking about the songwriters - I wrote the song with Trina Broussard and Trey Lorenz - and since it sampled Luther Vandross it had three or four other people’s names on there as writers. Yesterday we celebrated Aretha Franklin’s birthday and I posted a clip on my Instagram of one of the songs I did for her on the album. What’s the best part of writing and producing as part of a team? You’ve always been a big collaborator in your songwriting. I haven’t written anything down since I started working with JAY-Z. If you’re driving in the car, you don’t have the song lyrics in front of you but you hear a song on the radio and memorize it from that. We memorize them tone for tone, without looking at a piece of paper. And then I started realizing, it might be easier than writing it down because we all memorize the songs that we really love. He said, “I wrote it, I just didn’t write it on paper.” I had never seen this done before. He came to the studio and I saw him do that and I was like, “What the hell was this?” And he said, “I had my rap,” and he didn’t write one thing down in the studio. It took about an hour, and the process was me saying the lyrics to him. I stopped writing lyrics down on paper after me and JAY-Z did “Money In the Bank.” They’re something I just hold in my mind. Sounds like the second song came together pretty quickly. I just had to put it in the right words that would make it fit for being Usher’s story. Those lyrics for part two were something that I had actually gone through in my life they were a reliving of a situation. There’s a part two to this story.” And immediately, as soon as Usher said there’s a part two, my brain clicked and every word of “Confessions Part II” flew out of my mouth. This is crazy.” And then Usher was like, “You can’t stop right there. Once that version of “Confessions” was finished, Usher and myself was all like, “This is it. It’s a guy feeling bad about himself, about what he had been doing to the girl, so he just came out and told her. In that song, I talked about how everything I’ve been doing is all bad. When we did “Confessions,” we really had started with another song called “All Bad” and the “Confessions” part was in parentheses. What’s the story behind the song and the sequel? Let’s talk about “Confessions” and “Confessions Part II,” both recorded by Usher. I don’t know if I’ll do it with Usher, it might be with someone else, but I believe I have the 50 million in me. That album has sold 15 million copies so far, and I was looking at that and saying, one of my idols, Quincy Jones, the first album he did with Michael Jackson did 25 million and then he did Thriller and that did 50 million. We just celebrated 14 years of Usher’s Confessions a couple days ago. I put my mind to something and was like, “This is what I’m going to do.” And at the same time I have so much music and so many songs inside of me, and I’m still that same person. “These songs will give guys that opportunity to put the record on and say, ‘Look, this is what I’m going through,’ or just feel confident that they’re not goin’ through it by themselves.”įor the sexy track “Wifey,” Usher joined up again with the Neptunes, with whom he won a Grammy for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance in 2003 for “You Don’t Have To Call.” Singer-songwriter Robin Thicke collaborated on “Dot Com,” a song about cybersex that’s also a nod to Seventies funkster Roger Troutman’s “Computer Love.” And Stevie Wonder showed up to add a harmonica solo to “All Bad.Jermaine Dupri Celebrates Silver Anniversary with 'So So Def 25': Exclusive “A lot of times guys can’t really find it in themselves to be honest with their mates and tell ’em how they really feel,” he says. The R&B singer, who just turned twenty-five, hopes the album will be a source of comfort for his male fans. “It takes guts to talk about the stuff I talk about on this album,” says Usher, who cites his own infidelity and an unplanned pregnancy in the title track. For his fifth album Confessions, due in January, Usher is peppering his sweet soul with something new: brutal honesty.
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