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Usher Dazzles With a Wild Career-Spanning Journey on Opening Night of His ‘Past Present Future’ Tour: Concert Review
Usher may have delayed the launched of his career-spanning 'Past Present Future' tour due to injury, but he was in top form on opening night Tuesday.
Throughout the night, the cube also acted as a gigantic set-piece with a penthouse floor on top and a section at the bottom where the screens rose like a garage door, revealing quarters that alternately evoked a room in a house, a strip club or a dance performance area. Despite a delayed start due to a neck injury he’d gotten during rehearsals — “Past Present Future” was scheduled to launch in Atlanta last week — Usher brough his A-game to the tour’s actual opening at the TK in Washington, DC on Tuesday night. It’s also a celebration of a stellar career: While it took Usher a few years to find his footing after his initial success, he and producer Jermaine Dupri found a chemistry in the studio during the production of of 1997’s “My Way” lofted him to enduring superstardom that peaked with his blockbuster 2004 album “Confessions” and goes all the way up to the present with his newest outing, “Coming Home.”
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