Track Listing

1. Intro
2. Yeah! Featuring Lil Jon & Ludacris
3. Throwback Featuring Jadakiss
4. Confessions
5. Confessions Part II
6. Burn
7. Caught Up
8. Superstar (Interlude)
9. Superstar
10. Truth Hurts
11. Simple Things
12. Bad Girl
13. That’s What It’s Made For
14. Can U Handle It?
15. Do It To Me
16. Take Your Hand
17. Follow Me
18. My Boo – Duet With Alicia Keys
19. Red Light
20. Seduction
21. Confessions Part II Remix Featuring Shyne, Kanye West & Twista

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3237 in Music
• Released on: 2004-10-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Special Edition, Extra tracks

Album Description
Includes four new tracks including the "My Boo" duet with Alicia Keys!

Amazon.com
A CD is always more compelling when you know it's lifted from the artist's autobiography, and that's certainly the case with Confession, Usher's first record since 2001's 8701. The Atlanta singer's string of hits over the past decade have been decidedly PG-13 rated, almost veering towards teen pop, but he's changed all that on this co-produced offering, which he claims is "the real him." It would be too simplistic to just brand this record a break-up record, chronicling his public split with TLC's Rozonda "Chili" Thomas; it is that, but so much more. It would be more accurate to call this Usher's coming of age record, bridging the gap from boy to man, as he navigates the emotional fallout from the disintegration of his relationship, and the events that led up to it--real or imagined. But other than a guilty conscience, it seems unclear why Usher feels compelled to disgorge his secret life, as he documents his infidelities, transgressions, and emotional perfidy in the album's prodigious twenty one songs, that range from insinuating sultry R&B grooves to the decidedly crunky "Yeah," which pairs an insistent keyboard romp with Lil' Jon's assertive beats, and Ludacris' rather humid rhymes. --Jaan Uhelszki

Customer Reviews

My favorite!!!!!
This is my favorite Usher c.d. Second favorite is his first self titled "Usher" c.d. it didn't get much airplay like most of his songs now, but it should have. A secret only a true Usher fan would know about.

WOW
For some reason, this entire CD has all his greatest hits or maybe this album itself was just da bomb. There are over 20 songs and I will guarantee that you know the words to more than 15 of them. That's really good because most people don't know that many songs on an entire album. Get it. You won't regret it.

Usher - Confessions
Usher really out did himself on this one. Sometimes I wonder if he even knew how big of an album he created. Not since Thriller, has there been a album that combines the popularity & quality that Confessions does. Usher created a modern day classic. And not to take anything away from Usher, because i have always been a big Usher fan, but honestly of all the R&B singers that were out and popular at the time of Confessions, i honestly wouldnt have expected Usher to make an album of this level. This is the type of album you would have expected R. Kelly or Ginuwine to make, because they were both way bigger than Usher at that time. And Usher was still popular back in 1997-late 2003, but he wasn't a worldwide superstar like he is now. And i think that Usher owes everything he is now, to Confessions. Because honestly, if Usher wouldnt have made this classic album, i think he would still be just another R&B singer. Because his three previous albums Usher, My Way, & 8701 were all decent albums that sold pretty well, but they werent anything that caused people to say "Usher is the King of R&B". Well Confessions is the best R&B album of the last 20 years, and alot of superb R&B albums, still arent even close to Confessions. Now, four long years after the Diamond selling classic that is Confessions, we are just starting to get into that "Usher Craze" again because now he is just about to release his follow up to Confessions, Here I Stand, and the anticipation for that album is even higher than that of Confessions. But we are talking about Confessions now, you'll have to wait until May 27th to here my take on Here I Stand, and i will be very critical on that album. But Confessions is a front to back classic. I can honestly listen to every single song on this album without skipping a single one. My all time favorite has always been the bouncy but sexy song "Thats What It's Made For", theres something about this song that every time i hear it, it puts me in a good mood. Another classic song is "Follow Me" which was a great way to close the album. Its a more mid tempo song with blaring horns and synths, its pretty much Ushers song saying "This is my life". It's a great song. Another great song is the more slow song "Truth Hurts" where Usher confronts his girlfriend after suspecting shes been cheating, but in the end he confesses hes the one whos been cheating. And then there is the timeless classic hit singles, "Yeah" which was the party anthem of 2004, "Burn" which was the break up song of 2004, and "Confessions" which was just the song of 2004. I mean, this album really shoke up the music industry after it's release. No one ever thought that any album would even come close to Thrillers record for sales in a week. Most people and critics considered that record untouchable, as did i. But not only did Usher break the record for album sales in a week with Confessions, he shattered the record. And then he added four number one hit singles (Yeah, Burn, Confessions, and Caught Up). And on top of all of that the album is a classic. Usher really showed that he is here to stay, and now hes got the music world in his hands, and with Here I Stand (his follow up album to Confessions) on the edge of being released, dont be surprised if he breaks his own record again, and if that happens... lets just say anyone who was able to say they were alive while Usher was around is a very lucky person because he just might be the greatest overall musician to ever walk the earth. We'll just have to wait and see...


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