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Usher Rolls Out the Complete R&B Experience
The Atlanta legend’s halftime show was a message to never doubt him again.
That made his Super Bowl LVIII halftime show on Sunday feel like every bit the post-victory embrace between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce was: a collision of the endless reevaluation of history afforded by social media, of our shifting attitudes toward celebrities, and of raw, unmitigated drive. His accompanying new album, Coming Home, hosts a batch of the “Caught Up” star’s bubbliest songs in years — the stately Afrobeats tune “Ruin,” the giddy Billy Joel flip “A-Town Girl,” the zesty Lionel Richie–type beat in “BIG” — and features both past and present hip-hop and R&B heavyweights: Jermaine Dupri, Pharrell, and Bryan-Michael Cox but also H.E.R., Summer Walker, and Hit-Boy. Amid a slow-boiling Super Bowl peppered with unsettling religious and political ads, Usher descended from a throne emblazoned with his logo to deliver the “singing, dancing, sweating, gyrating, possible relationship issues” a mock red-band trailer advisory before the performance warned about.
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