Producers involved with its production included Jermaine Dupri, The Runners, Ester Dean, Polow da Don, RedOne, Jim Jonsin, |Danja, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Bangladesh and Tricky Stewart. The album was recorded at the Studio at the Palms in Vegas and Atlanta. Prior to the filing, Usher relocated to Las Vegas in 2009 to begin working on his sixth studio album. Usher's interpretation of Here I Stand 's low performance. Here I Stand was very specific to where I was in my life. People felt like I'd stepped away from the perception I'd sold for all the years I'd been doing this, when people buy my albums, they buy them for the connection. The divorce was highly documented by the press. Once the divorce was finalized on November 8 that year, Usher explained that there was "no reasonable hope of reconciliation" and their marriage was "irretrievably broken" both Foster and Usher had been living separately since July 2008. A year and a half later on June 12, 2009, following his marriage, Usher filed for divorce from Foster, with no initial reasoning. It featured more mature, adult-oriented themes, influenced by his marriage to Foster this thematic shift ultimately led to the album becoming less successful with fans and sales than his previous work. Usher released his fifth studio album Here I Stand on May 13, 2008. Foster gave birth to Usher Raymond V later that year. In December 2005, Usher became romantically involved with stylist Tameka Foster, whom he then married on August 3, 2007. Usher promoted the album with a supporting international tour, OMG Tour, in 2011. Nonetheless, the album earned Usher several awards, including Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary R&B Album and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance. Raymond received generally mixed reviews from music critics, who were ambivalent towards its songwriting and themes. The album also produced five singles that achieved chart success, including US hits " Hey Daddy (Daddy's Home)", " Lil Freak", " There Goes My Baby", and international hits " OMG" and " More". It sold over one million copies in the United States and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 329,000 copies in its first week. Production for the album took place in 2009 and was handled by several producers, including Jermaine Dupri, The Runners, Ester Dean, Polow da Don, RedOne, Jim Jonsin, Danja, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Bangladesh, Zaytoven, and Tricky Stewart.
Raymond is the sixth studio album by American singer Usher, released on March 26, 2010, by LaFace Records. “Mars vs Venus,” a very slow jam, soars, while “Pro Lover” is a breezy, casual number filled with sweet dub accents.Raymond v. Two of the best happen to be collaborations with Jam and Lewis and the Avila Brothers. (The combination is as wrong as Eugene McDaniels' “Compared to What” and a soft drink commercial.) Otherwise, the slow jams and the few moments when Usher sounds as if he's having actual fun win out. (Either way, it’s evident that long-term relationships might not be for him.) The sleek dancefloor track “So Many Girls,” one of a few songs in which Usher sounds dead in the eyes, going through the motions, desensitized by the bounty of women at his feet, is followed by the sarcastically titled “Guilty,” where he whines “I guess I’m guilty for wanting to be up in the club” - which warrants a response like “Yes, attached 31-year-old man, that’s correct.” A few songs before that is a quasi-redemptive ballad “Foolin’ Around” he humbles himself, seems to take responsibility for his actions, then casually drops “Guess that’s just the man in me, blame it on celebrity.” The album’s catchiest uptempo song, “Lil Freak,” featuring Nicki Minaj, is effective despite itself, swiping the synthesizer line from “Living for the City” - a classic containing Stevie Wonder's most angered social commentary - for the sake of Usher’s lesbian tryst.
Many of the songs on the album have to be taken on their own, stripped of context otherwise, determining what applies to Usher’s real and fantasy lives can be problematic.
He pours himself into that song more than any other on the set, and breakup lyrics don’t get much more specific than “You don’t think I know what’s up, but sweetheart that’s what ruined us” or “I done damn near lost my mama.” The song was awarded the top spot on the R&B/Hip-Hop chart, most likely for its lyrical uniqueness since the song does not break out of an exceptionally repetitive twiddle. “Papers,” the early buzz single for Raymond V Raymond, bears the closest relation to the turbulence he experienced. The making of Usher’s sixth studio album was inevitably affected by the end of his marriage and its aftershocks.
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