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. At least listening to it now filled me with a sense of nostalgia from my early 20s.Confessions is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Usher. I’ll never understand how this album was so massive. Finally, ‘Do It To Me,’ reminded me a lot of a Prince slow jam but without the magic. That makes total sense to me that it pricked my ears up.

I see it was written and produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, frequent Janet Jackson collaborators. I quite enjoyed ‘Truth Hurts,’ but not enough to listen to the album again. Inescapable), but then immediately shuts it down and trudges along until the semi-upbeat hit, ‘Caught Up.’ ‘Bad Girl’ sound promising, but once again, doesn’t go anywhere. Lil Jon & Ludacris)’ starts the party (that song was everywhere in 2004. The album is smooth and sultry, slow and sexy and 16 years later it still drives me nuts. Many of the songs are about the breakdown of his relationship with Chilli from TLC. The album was nominated for 8 Grammys and won 3. It broke multiple sales records which resulted in its being the second best selling album of the 2000s. In the States, this album sold 1.1 million copies in the first week. I remember having to go to Receiving multiple times a day to see if we’d received new stock of the record. That’s not because I loved it, it’s because I was working in a CD store at the time, and this album was flying out the door faster than we could rack it.

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