Usher has teamed up with "Look At Me Now" producer Diplo for an icy, distant break-up ballad
that brews and bubbles with all the angst of a teenage melodrama. If Mr. Freeze wrote another sad love song, it'd probably sound like this. But Diplo described it more as "Radiohead quietstorm."
Impressively, Usher sings the bulk of the song in falsetto, which along with the production, lends it an airy, ethereal feel. Good luck reproducing night after night on the tour though, Mr. Raymond.
The bittersweet lyrics paint the picture of a good love gone bad clearly: "I gave my best, it wasn't enough / You get upset, we argue too much / We made a mess of what used to be love, so why do I care, I care at all."
The song is a bold shift in the dance-pop trend. It's still unabashedly eletronic music, but Usher is fusing the genre with more of his trademark soul stylings and avoiding the extended dance break frenzy that Rihanna's "We Found Love" has seemed to make popular.
But Usher has plans for "Climax," and they involve a scantily clad woman, a lot of one dollar bills and a pole.
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