![]() We wanted to give him something that wasn’t predictable.” “I feel like Usher is probably one of the greatest R&B superstars of this generation. “We wanted to give Usher a record that would be game changing for his career again, and we also wanted to give him some superhero music, something that today people just don’t necessarily think about from all aspects of life,” Garrett said. Testing the limits of Usher’s vocal capabilities is exactly what Sean Garrett intended to do when creating the song. But it’s Usher’s voice that truly defines the song. Produced and written by Sean Garrett, The Avila Brothers and Lil Jon, “GLU” features booming 808s and chronicles a steamy, sticky night of passion. Adding to the song’s sensual appeal, model and bonafide it-girl Lori Harvey will star in the upcoming music video. Only the indelible falsetto chorus of 2012′s “Climax,” for which Usher earned a best R&B performance grammy, comes close to mirroring the tone and texture of “GLU.” But his latest single is more sultry and supple - reminiscent of the funk-tinged amatory pleasure and desire that soundtracked ‘80′s R&B. The song, out today, is about four minutes of Usher singing almost entirely in his upper range, more than he has on any song he’s dropped in the past. It’s his first release under Gamma, the new music company created by former Apple Music executive Larry Jackson. ‘GLU,’ Usher’s first solo single in roughly three years, does just that. ![]() “People were probably expecting us to do an up-tempo or a club song for him to start, but to show him on this ballad and show his range and his singing ability, he’s still got it. He’s singing in a falsetto in this song, and it just shows his range,” he said. “That definitely was crossing all our minds when we were making it just to show people how talented he is.
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