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" It&amp;#039;s easy to forget that Usher, in many respects, was the Justin Bieber of the &amp;#039;90s. Nurtured and refined for pop-stardom since the age of 13, he has continued to maintain a music career that now spans 20 successful years. His ability to switch up his style on his carefully selected hits have always kept him in the upper echelons of the charts; and it&amp;#039;s a tactic he continues to refine on his new album Looking 4 Myself. He&amp;#039;s embraced current musical trends on lead single &amp;#039;Climax&amp;#039;; a carefully contained R&amp;amp;B ballad with ambient dubstep wobbles that isn&amp;#039;t a complete style overhaul. However, it&amp;#039;s on new single &amp;#039;Scream&amp;#039; - a seductive club number of chest-popping beats and sex-fuelled lyrics (&amp;quot;I see you over there so hypnotic/ Thinkin&amp;#039; &amp;#039;bout what I&amp;#039;d do to that body&amp;quot;) - where he sounds at ease.  The combination continues on Swedish House Mafia-produced cuts &amp;#039;Euphoria&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Numb&amp;#039;, both of which include the DJs&amp;#039; glimmering synths while he croons in his coolly-controlled falsetto. Elsewhere, he&amp;#039;s experimented to largely great success; particularly with Aussie knob-twiddler Luke Steele for title track &amp;#039;Looking 4 Myself&amp;#039; - a light and funky number that recalls Empire of the Sun&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Walking On A Dream&amp;#039;.  Usher&amp;#039;s seventh studio outing thrives on a mixture of genres, arming him with potential hits to satisfy the current chart&amp;#039;s unpredictable palate. Between the sample of Billy Joel&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Uptown Girl&amp;#039; on will.i.am-helmed &amp;#039;Can&amp;#039;t Stop Won&amp;#039;t Stop&amp;#039; or the stripped-back hip-hop vibe of &amp;#039;Lemme See&amp;#039;, Usher has produced some of his most varied and commercially relevant music to date.  Tracks to download: &amp;#039;Climax&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;Euphoria&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;Numb&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;Looking 4 Myself&amp;#039; If you like this, you&amp;#039;ll like: Chris Brown, Swedish House Mafia Listen to Usher&amp;#039;s new single &amp;#039;Scream&amp;#039; below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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