Usher ft. Young Jeezy: 'Love In This Club'

Released on Monday, Apr 28 2008

Published Monday, Mar 31 2008, 12:03 BST | By Nick Levine | 12 comments

Usher ft. Young Jeezy: 'Love In This Club'

Despite taking a four-year break between albums, a period in which he got married, became a father and made his Broadway debut, Usher's popularity remains undimmed. 'Love In This Club', the R&B superstar's first solo single since 'Caught Up' back in March 2005, recently became his eighth US number one hit.

It's not hard to see why, because it's essentially the classic R&B slow jam given a gleaming 2008 makeover. The lover-man lyrics and bump 'n' grind rhythm are the same as ever, but writer/producer Polow Da Don cranks up the drama with some massive, space age synths and plenty of post-'Umbrella' "eys". A gruff rap from Young Jeezy boosts its credentials too, adding a nice bit of grit to proceedings. Hardly the most original of comeback singles, especially considering how long Usher's been away, but this does sound very, very now.

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yOUR NAME (YOUR LOCATION), on October 14th, 2008
Terrible terrible song! TERRIBLE!

Lily, on September 7th, 2008
what has happened to usher!!!!! confessions was a n.o1 album with hit after hit and fab tracks. love in this club is ok but he can do better and moving mountains is an disgrace in it's self and they even tried to remix it to make sound better....... his album was sucessful in it's first week but then just took a fall. now he's had to rehire his mum as manger so hopefully we'll get some great tunes from him like the confessions days.

Sam, Leicester, on May 13th, 2008
Didn't like it at first, but it grew on me, bit by bit, until I bought it the other day.

Danny, London, on May 13th, 2008
nice song, great to dance to in the club

bex stockie, on May 6th, 2008
cool song

yolanda, Bristol, on May 5th, 2008
Love this song one of the best songs out there right now its good that usher is back.

Sophie, Bangor, on April 29th, 2008
omg it is so good lv him xxx

Makson, on April 26th, 2008
quality stuff. love the synths. this song has really high replay value too. Timbaland wishes he could produce something this good.

Denis T, Malaysia, on April 25th, 2008
don't like this song. It's got a structure of a trance music, except the drum beat, but in a much slower tempo. This is not right.

JP, London, on April 18th, 2008
A safe sure-fire single choice to prepare us no doubt for an underwhelming album filled to the brim with all the mid-tempo Usher could muster. Having released a new fragrance and filled his video with sparkling lights and bucket loads of suggestive and very sexy dancing Usher is doing as his many advisors have been suggesting: pumping out another "Yeah!", reworking it and hoping to make as much money as possible. This song is commercial R&B in its purest.

Mel, Durham, on April 12th, 2008
A good song. Very sexy.

Sarah, South London, on April 11th, 2008
A good comeback from Usher.