It also uses an effect which created several clones of Usher. It shows Usher dancing in several colored rooms and backgrounds. The music video was directed by Bille Woodruff. It also reached the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100, Pop Songs, Canadian Singles Chart, Dutch Top 40, and the ARIA Singles Chart. It was number one on the UK Singles Chart and the US Hot R&B Singles chart. "You Make Me Wanna." reached several music charts. It won a Billboard Music Award, a Soul Train Music Award, a WQHT Hip Hop Award, and a nomination for a Grammy Award. Usher uses a pick-up line "You make me wanna leave the one I'm with and start a new relationship with you". The song is about a relationship between Usher, his girlfriend, and her best friend, who Usher really likes. The song's instruments are the acoustic guitar, hi-hat, and bells. The song is written in the key of E major. The song was written by Usher and Jermaine Dupri and Manuel Seal. It became the lead single from Usher's second album My Way (1997). It was released by LaFace Records and Arista Records on August 5, 1997. And what is Mr." You Make Me Wanna." is a song by American singer Usher. If you’ll notice, Usher is back with the back his background dancers who aren’t Usher in this clip. One last time, because the gliding here is just too good to gloss over: Remember peak Miami LeBron, when he could both play and guard all five positions at the highest level? And you would watch him and think, “Man, the perfect NBA starting lineup would just be five LeBrons.” That’s what’s happening here. Sometimes, in order to get the best results, the job can only be done by the best. But other times, the choreography can be only be performed by the person is was meant for. He doesn’t NEED them, but they’re nice to have for a rainy day. You see, sometimes Usher wants background dancers. We have the typical background dancers, but we also have…MULTIPLE USHERS. What we thought we were getting is not what we are getting. FINGER?Īnd then the moment where you realize you’re witnessing greatness: But how many of those guitar players had or have the ability to start off one of our classic jams with ONE. Now, history has given us plenty of phenomenal guitar players.
But how to start it? If only…wait, is that a guitar over there? Just waiting for the perfect late 90s R&B singer to strum it? His agenda is, he wants his damn song to start. This is a more difficult task to complete for some, but fortunately for us, Usher isn’t concerned with hiding his agenda. To truly understand an artist, you have to get inside their head. The brilliance is so effortless it’s easy to miss. Look at how nonchalantly he strums the first guitar chord of the song: Only 19 at the time of this song’s release, the first word that comes to mind with this video is ‘confidence’. Leading off “My Way” is the mid-tempo banger, “You Make Me Wanna…”.
Usher released a self-titled album in 1994, but his sophomore effort, “My Way”, three years later catapulted him into the mainstream, selling over 7 million copies worldwide. To kick things off, we’re taking look at Usher’s breakthrough track about longing for a new love, “You Make Me Wanna…”.
Welcome to the inaugural edition of TGS’s Video Breakdown Series, where I take a look at the music videos of some of our favorite artists and point out the awesome, the absurd, and the inexplicable.