‘Confessions Part II’

Usher, 2004

R&B as soap opera, in which Usher’s “chick on the side” — with whom he’s already admitted to strolling “hand in hand in the Beverly Center” (!) — calls him bearing most unwelcome news: She’s “three months pregnant and she’s keeping it.” Summery-ness ranking: 18

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