Today is the day Usher performs at the Super Bowl. It’s a moment both right on time – as he’s enjoying a resurgence in prominence that he hasn’t enjoyed since maybe the height of his fame in 2004 – and long overdue since he’s the biggest star of his generation still around who hasn’t done the Super Bowl yet.
Icons like Usher wax and wane in popularity, but they never really go away because they stay lodged in your brain and your heart even if they slip from the top of the charts. Usher has released 4 albums, a forgettable collaborative album with Zaytoven (A), and an EP (Versus) in 2010 since Here I Stand, which I’m marking as the turning point in his career (read more here).
And in that time, there has been some really great stuff that maybe we all just didn’t fully appreciate. So let me just share with you the 10 best late-era Usher songs that are as good – and in some cases – better than his output during the height of his fame.
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