Usher, turns 34 today, gets personal in his brand-new heartfelt music video for his up-tempo dance ballad, "Numb," the fourth single to be lifted from his newest seventh studio album, "Looking 4 Myself." The visual reflects his hardships and looks back on all the loved ones that have passed away. Usher is doing what he does best, dancing, to distract himself from the painful emotion bottled up inside him.
"Numb" is a dance-pop, electro-pop and euro disco song with R&B elements which contains revolutionary pop music influences. Lyrically, the club-oriented production is an inspirational song about finding one's destiny, and becoming numb to the negativity and just following your dreams. The song received generally positive acclaim from contemporary music. Everything is included, from his breakdown when he was booed for walking off stage during a concert in Berlin last year to the passing of his father and stepson, complete with some fancy choreography.
The song finds Usher singing lyrics about forgetting your troubles on the dance floor. It does have the mind-numbing, body-activating effect the song is so explicitly searching for. These are his confessions. Usher explained that the cut, "is about having no fear. Sometimes we take for granted moments that allow us to make it thru, ability to just wake-up every morning&take a breath." Usher added the song, "is what happens when you encounter that wit's end in life, like the only way to move forward is to allow yourself to go numb and go for what you feel."
Directed by Chris Applebaum and Grace Harry, the clip is a fast-paced montage of Usher's life in the near past and features several dramatic scenes of him including taking care of his sons, standing towards a microphone unable to perform and lying towards a woman in a hospital. It begins with a footage of Usher walking offstage during a show part of his OMG Tour in Berlin. From there, the video shows both the glamour of Usher's life, as well as those darker moments as he tries to shake off the pain by channeling his energy into a passionate dance inside a glass cube. "I felt like a failure, hopeless, paralyzed, numb," Usher shares, and the video ends with he managing to break that glass cube.
"Numb" is a dance-pop, electro-pop and euro disco song with R&B elements which contains revolutionary pop music influences. Lyrically, the club-oriented production is an inspirational song about finding one's destiny, and becoming numb to the negativity and just following your dreams. The song received generally positive acclaim from contemporary music. Everything is included, from his breakdown when he was booed for walking off stage during a concert in Berlin last year to the passing of his father and stepson, complete with some fancy choreography.
The song finds Usher singing lyrics about forgetting your troubles on the dance floor. It does have the mind-numbing, body-activating effect the song is so explicitly searching for. These are his confessions. Usher explained that the cut, "is about having no fear. Sometimes we take for granted moments that allow us to make it thru, ability to just wake-up every morning&take a breath." Usher added the song, "is what happens when you encounter that wit's end in life, like the only way to move forward is to allow yourself to go numb and go for what you feel."
Directed by Chris Applebaum and Grace Harry, the clip is a fast-paced montage of Usher's life in the near past and features several dramatic scenes of him including taking care of his sons, standing towards a microphone unable to perform and lying towards a woman in a hospital. It begins with a footage of Usher walking offstage during a show part of his OMG Tour in Berlin. From there, the video shows both the glamour of Usher's life, as well as those darker moments as he tries to shake off the pain by channeling his energy into a passionate dance inside a glass cube. "I felt like a failure, hopeless, paralyzed, numb," Usher shares, and the video ends with he managing to break that glass cube.
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