“Launchpad,” Particle: This jam band takes you on an intergalactic head trip with their trippy album. No spacecraft needed here, though, just dizzying guitar solos and a pulsating rhythm section. By the time the record ends, you’ll be wanting another ride.Ĩ. “Afrodisiac,” Brandy: At this point, many of you will surely be saying: “Brandy came out with an album this year?” Her third disc, “Afrodisiac,” came and went faster than her faux marriage - a shame, because this disc, with major production work by Timbaland, was surely her best. From the tell-all, autobiographical themes to the hypnotic beats, this album captures your attention from the first note and refuses to be ignored. “The Grey Album,” Danger Mouse, Jay-Z and The Beatles: Danger Mouse must be kicking himself right about now: The DJ/producer cleverly mixes the lyrics from Jay-Z’s “Black Album” and the music from legendary Beatles “White Album” to create the widely downloaded “The Grey Album,” one of the most ingenious mashups to date - then Jay-Z and Linkin Park make a subpar mashup that goes on to sell almost 400,000 copies in its first week. But he can take solace that his was the better project, and, being free, was probably heard by many more.ġ0. “Finally Woken,” Jem: Yes, this British import does sound awful lot like fellow U.K. But what sets her debut apart is now how similar she is - and how different. She entranced listeners with a gorgeous, delicate blend of haunting ballads, chill-out grooves and whimsical tunes. The melodies are lushly arranged, and her lyrics are just as ear-catching. In a year when we heard more female voices from the alternative music scene, Jem’s was the strongest.But the deception worked on multiple levels. In constructing the narrative around Confessions, Usher omitted certain facts.
While it was true that he wasn’t entirely sold on marriage, he told Rolling Stone in 2004 that he did once buy Chilli a 10-karat diamond ring and proposed to her in the most R&B way: in the middle of sex. He said he co-wrote the album’s core breakup ballad, “Burn,” while he and Chilli were still together. A decade later, executive producer Jermaine Dupri said the song was indeed about her but admitted Confessions wasn’t just Usher’s experience, rather a compilation of its male creators’ infractions, promoted as one man’s expunging of sins.
The album’s most salacious track, “Confessions Pt. II,” a saga about creeping and getting another woman pregnant, was based on Dupri’s life, not Usher’s.
WHO WROTE USHER CONFESSIONS ALBUM LICENSE
“We wanted the media to ask us questions,” the producer told Vibe in 2014, comparing their artistic license to that of Michael Jackson. “Nobody knows who the fuck Billie Jean is.
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