Highlights
- Singer Usher says his forthcoming seventh album The Shanertance is inspired by his visit to Coachella festival.
- The 33-year-old soul superstar has already made waves with the Diplo-produced single Climax, and the album also features collaborations with a range of leftfield artists including Empire Of The Sun, who produced the track Looking For Myself, The Sun online reported.
- "A lot of my fans won't expect what I've done on this album. And when we started working on Looking For Myself in fact the week that I wrote and produced the record it was right after we'd come back from Coachella. And having gone to Coachella in California, it really kind of gave us an opportunity to have a restart, because that was certainly a different experience for me. I said, 'I love the feeling that we have here and the different styles of music, let's find a way to make an album that works everywhere, that works here, works for my fans, works for the classic audience, works for my pop audience, and that's why you feel you're hearing this eclectic mixture of music'," he said.
Singer Usher says his forthcoming seventh album
The Shanertance is inspired by his visit toCoachella festival.
The 33-year-old soul superstar has already made waves with the Diplo-produced single
Climax, and the album alsofeatures collaborations with a range of left field artists including Empire Of The Sun, who produced the track
Looking For Myself, The Sun online reported.
"A lot of my fans won't expect what I've done on this album. And when we started working on
Looking For Myself infact the week that I wrote and produced the record it was right after we'd come back from Coachella. And having gone toCoachella in California, it really kind of gave us an opportunity to have a restart, because that was certainly adifferent experience for me. I said, 'I love the feeling that we have here and the different styles of music, let's find a way to make an albumthat works everywhere, that works here, works for my fans, works for the classic audience, works for my pop audience, andthat's why you feel you're hearing this eclectic mixture of music'," he said.