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List Price: $11.94 | | Label: Jive
Salesrank: 6445
Released: May 13, 2008 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Here I Stand Track Listing:
1. Intro
2. Love In This Club featuring Young Jeezy
3. This Ain't Sex
4. Trading Places
5. Moving Mountains
6. What's Your Name featuring will.i.am
7. Prayer For You Interlude
8. Something Special
9. Love You Gently
10. Best Thing featuring Jay Z
11. Before I Met You
12. His Mistakes
13. Appetite
14. What's A Man To Do
15. Lifetime
16. Love In This Club Part II featuring Beyoncé & Lil Wayne
17. Here I Stand
Editorial Review:
2008 album from the R&B superstar. Here I Stand is Usher's follow-up to his history-making, nine-times platinum-selling Confessions. The album tells the story of growth: triumphant, reflective, somewhat defiant and it marks a new period in Usher's life and creative expression. Here I Stand finds Usher working with some of the best producers and writers around including Polow Da Don, Jermaine Dupre, Dre & Vidal and Dream & Tricky Stewart. Features the first single 'Love In The Club'. Laface.
Here I Stand Reviews:
EXCELLENT ALBUM 
2009-11-21 - This is an excellent album. The songs are great and Usher has matured! I cannot wait to hear his new album.
Not As Good as Confessions 
2009-06-09 - I just knew this one would be "bangin" just like Confessions, but the collection of songs are not as good to me. There are some good singles, but I was not as impressed as I was with Confessions.
"I'M HOPING THAT THIS IS AINT TOO HARD TO BELIEVE... 
2009-05-06 - With any artist, it is hard to follow up a classic. Once your have hit your ceiling, how do you stay relevant? Usher choose to reinvent himself. On "Here I Stand" he shows a more grown up vibe. A married man with a new son. He stopped gyrating woman and humping the stage to deliver a softer more adult side.
When comparing this album, I ask that you not compare it to "Confessions". I'd compare it more to R.Kelly "12 Play". With songs like "Trading Places", "Love Me Gently" and "Love In The Club", Usher delivers sex reminiscent of the way R. Kelly did back in 93. Then Usher shows his more mature side on "Moving Mountains"," Something Special" and "His Mistakes" and the "Prayer For You" interlude is dedicated to his newly born son. But this is not a perfect album, "Whats Your Name" is horrible. I know its produced by will.i.am, but it should not have made the cut. And "Best Thing" misses the mark with a weak 16 from Jay-Z. But Usher bounces back with the outstanding title track. In it he shows growth that would never have been on his previous work.
Your only as good as your last album. That's the music industry motto. When Usher released "Confessions", he raised the bar on any of his previous work. It is his most complete work and highest selling CD to date. But what it failed to do was show much growth for Usher as an artist. Too me he just perfected what he was good at before. But I believe that if Usher can find a way to blend the hip hop vibe from "Confessions" with the mature side of "Here I Stand", we will be in store for another classic R & B album.
Where I stand
2009-05-05 - I love the cd from start to finish. I've grown up with Usher and have to say that this is his best album yet. I guess you have to go through it all to like it.
Rihanna should've known... 
2009-04-06 - Death metal superstar Usher takes the genre to a whole new level with his 2008 release "Here I Stand." Unfortunately, that level is just beneath the streets: the sewer. "Best Thing" and "His Mistake" are the only songs that sound remotely like Usher's original and unique music that made him famous in Slovakia before he hit it big in the U.S. Instead of his trademarked grunge/metal sound, "Here I Stand" offers a mellower, acoustic vibe. Not good, as Usher couldn't sing a ballad to save his life.
Although he had a promising acting debut in Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, it appears that his acting career will be cut short, as now the only thing he'll be remembered as is someone who did Rihanna wrong right before the Country Music Awards. Better luck next time, Usher.
