Music Video single's shortlist- Usher

Usher is an American recording artist, dancer, and actor. He rose to fame in the late 1990s with the release of his second album My Way which included the number one single “You Make Me Wanna”.In his follow-up albums 8701 (2001) ,Confessions (2004) ,Here I Stand (2008) ,Raymond v. Raymond (2010) ,Versus (2010) have all been very successful in the charts. Usher has sold over 65 million albums worldwide. He has won numerous awards including seven Grammy Awards, four World Music Awards, six American Music Awards, and nineteen Billboard Music Awards.

In early 2010 Usher collaborated with singer song writer Nikki Minaj to create the some Lil Freak. The song was from Ushers 2010 album Raymond v. Raymond but did not make it higher then 40 on the u UK singles chart.Click Play below to hear song With Lyrics

The lyrics in this song are very sexual and provocative lyrics such as “Really f*ckin with me” lyrics such as these are mainly to show love and passion.throughtout the whole of the song we hear usher telling us about a journey he had with a girl would like to impress and be with He does this by singing what he is doing like the lyrics “You let her put her hands in your pants”.

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The music sounds like people clapping and a drum kit with string instruments this R&B and Hip-Hop single has many of the music conventions like a temped beat being the bass throughout the whole song.

If we chose to do this song we would have a club party environment with the men and the women dancing to synchronised dance routine in parts of the video, a lead male which is trying to impress a lead girl it would also have a back story which could be blended in with club scene and a intimate scene where the lead male and woman are enjoying each other. The club scene would be in low lighted room where there are many people dancing and drinking.

In this video we would see loads of R&B and Hip-Hop conventions for example ,a key bass beat ,women being represented as a sexual object.

For this particular video we would need a club like setting with low lighting and flashing disco lights we would also need loads of other people dancing in the room whiles the lead male is lip singing to the song .for the props and costume we would want a contemporary look witch the actors can provide themselves with but also we would need drinks and glasses to make it look like people are drinking alcohol.