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Usher’s 50 Best Songs: Staff Picks
Best Usher Songs: 50 Top Hits from the R&B superstar, the 2024 Super Bowl Halftime Show headliner.
2 hit “You Make Me Wanna…” for her arousing Over It single “Come Thru.” The original acoustic guitar melody and atmospheric hi-hats give the modern hook-up jam a nostalgic feel, but rather than finding herself stuck in the middle of a love triangle, Summer is debating if her collaborator is worth dropping the rest of her roster for. Following in the loverboy footsteps of LL Cool J’s “I Need Love,” this Diddy number signals that it’s a rap hit for the ladies by enlisting Usher’s silky vocals and yearning ad libs (and a gratuitous ab-revealing shirt lift in the music video for good measure). 1 smash for Usher in 2008, stands as a bleary-eyed ode to getting a little too frisky on the dance floor; its remix, which swaps out Jeezy for Beyoncé and Lil Wayne, is more opulent and thoughtful, with Ursh’s sexual declarations turned into a sultry dialogue with Queen Bey and the hook re-fashioned into a more open-hearted yelp.
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