Looking 4 Myself

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USHER’s seventh studio album, <i>Looking 4 Myself</i>, perhaps more than any of the ones that precede it, is a spot-on time capsule for when it was released. The production (especially on tracks like “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop,” “Scream,” and “Numb”) leaned so heavily on the Top 40, dubstep-inspired pop of the day that it’s hard not to visualize disorienting blinks of strobe lights and fog machines clouding up a crowded nightclub when listening. The album also found USHER in an experimental mood, something that appears to be the result of his confidence to contort himself to fit any form of pop music. And he pulled it off in many instance, even if the album isn’t one that is revisited as much as his classic. As with all USHER project, <i>Looking 4 Myself</i> has such surefire hits sprinkled throughout that when you revisit them, you somehow still know all the words without realizing they were tied to any album. The Diplo-produced single “Climax'' is the best example of that: The song teases some EDM-like synths at its start, but they quickly dissolve into a syrupy sweet home for USHER’s falsetto. In hindsight, it’s one of his more memorable post-<i>Confessions</i> single. .

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