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Lyric usher burn8/18/2023 ![]() The only reason why people are taking this generic and souless piece of R & B seriously is that it is about two people who are famous and how one of them fucked around, right? There cannot be anything interesting in this maudlin dreck? 3 (Anthony Easton) “Burn” is an absolutely inoffensive wash of Urban elevator music, only about a tenth as compelling as “Feelin’ On Ya Booty”, which I just queued up to clear the palate. Usher’s a fine crooner, but after ten listens I think I still would have trouble picking this track out of a quietstorm lineup. Synth strings, predictable beats, lyrics that were old when Jodeci sang them. This track falls into the weak category for me. When he’s not, he’s tremendously disposable. Usher is a SOMETIMES turn on for me when he’s hot, he’s real hot. What a load of todgers! On the plus side, the beats remind me a bit of Ignition (Remix), but you know. ![]() Imagine being stuck in a conversation with him! Stop this Nu-Man nonsense right now! I blame “Mens Health” magazine. Quite frankly I couldn’t stand more than 2 minutes of this song, after being CONVINCED it had already lasted a Yes-style epic 8 minutes. Goodness me, isn’t Usher meant to be all SMOOVE? Instead of the coolest be-capped King o t’Dancefloor who sang to us YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! we now have a sniffly little sod wiping his nose on his sleeve before going to his mam’s house for some roast beef crisps. Stevie: “I don’t either, honey, but I know one thing: this song is really boring.” 0 (Stevie Nixed) What I’m trying to say is that I love you, I just I feel like this is coming to an end. ![]() “Burn”‘s the face-saving story you, the unlucky listener cornered and hemmed for a round of solitary sadness, get to hear. ![]() You get to the end of it to find that the music’s too cheerful and the man’s too evasive. The swain’s refrain fails mainly to explain, over four minutes and eighteen seconds, what’s left of him after fifty-‘leven days and umpteen hours. But not ‘being there’ now, my head is feeling this one more than my heart: there are lots of little touches I like (the quiet shuffle of electronics at the start, for instance) but that climax is the only point where the song stops being decent and grabs me. Having ‘been there’, it’s hard not to cheer the pivot-moment ( “till you return”), especially when the tremulous voice and the heavy arrangement are playing nice-cop/nasty-cop on you. It’s not working, is it? – Damn, it was working. ![]()
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