His whole “OMG” experience must’ve been so humiliating. If I’d recorded “OMG,” I’d be looking to blame someone else, too.Īs far as I know, T-Pain did not hold a gun to Usher’s head and force him to record “OMG.” I would instead venture a guess that Usher was speaking from a place of bruised ego on that plane. In 2013, Usher was three years removed from “OMG,” his last #1 hit.
Instead, Usher had to keep himself relevant by making garbage-ass dance-pop. It’s that Usher suddenly found himself in a world where the music that made him a megastar, the smooth rap-flavored R&B of his blockbuster Confessions, was no longer commercially dominant. It’s not that T-Pain’s brazen use of Auto-Tune really bothered Usher. Usher is the clear asshole in this story, but when I look at it from his perspective, I understand. T-Pain told the tale on the Netflix show This Is Pop in 2021, and I got into it in the column on T-Pain’s “ Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin’).” To briefly summarize: In 2013, Usher and T-Pain were both on a flight to Los Angeles for the BET Awards, and Usher cornered T-Pain to tell him that he had “really fucked up music for real singers.” T-Pain was flabbergasted, and the conversation sent him into a depressive tailspin. You probably already know the story about Usher and T-Pain. Book Bonus Beat: The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music.
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
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