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7 Best Moments From Usher’s Past Present Future Tour Stop in New York City
Usher dazzled Brooklyn’s Barclays Center with an all-absorbing, career-spanning spectacle during his Past Present Future Tour on Sept. 6, 2024.
As concupiscent shrills showered him through “Nice & Slow,” he operated with the eros of the moment — stripping down to a white tank top, jeans and his signature “U” diamond pendant — and saucily mime-humped the mic stand after having already turned up the heat with “Lovers and Friends.” If that wasn’t enough, the rapt audience melted at the knees once his sterling silver vocals belted out that well-known falsetto to “Superstar.” As the night wound down, with energy levels depleted following run-throughs of “OMG” “There Goes My Baby,” and “DJ Got Us Fallin’ in Love” among others, Ursh, now wearing a glittering blue leather Vanson motorcycle jacket, sent the capacity-sized arena into a tizzy when he finally unleashed “Yeah!” without interruption. That’s why a “Lovers and Friends” almost always elicits a squeal (or three) mere seconds after “Uhh, oh-oh-oh.” The messiness of “You Make Me Wanna…” immediately pulls listeners into a trance recalling that one time, while the firewood crackle of “Nice & Slow” almost instantly draws “It’s 7 o’clock, I’m in my drop top cruising the streets” being sung in unison.
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