Fresh off a year that included the 2024 Super Bowl Halftime show and a critically acclaimed Las Vegas Residency, Usher brought Round Two of his Past Present Future tour for a two-night special in Brooklyn.
The crowd embraced Usher, one of the most influential artists of the early 2000s — eight-time Grammy-winning, multi-platinum influential and is one of the best-selling musicians of all time. The R&B phenom dazzled Brooklyn’s Barclays Center with an all-world, shining spectacle that added to his allure.
At around 9:30 p.m., the luminary touched the stage, commanding the landscape with a kind of mesmerizing aura and opened with “Coming Home,” the title track from his latest chart-topping outing. He followed that up with “Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home),” which quickly summoned ecstatic gasps from the audience mid “I just wanna get your attention…” Like that, the sold-out audience went down memory lane singing right along.
Between the hits (“You Make Me Wanna…,” “U Got it Bad”), (“Yeah!,” “OMG”), and (“There Goes My Baby,” “Throwback”), Usher’s undeniable collection of classics was undeniable.
With each performance, each song sounded just as fresh as they did in 1997, 2001 or 2004 and is a testament to the singer’s enduring catalog. The show carefully curated these times by traveling through these eras as a way to illustrate the singer’s transformation through the years.
Above all things, if anything was clear from the two-hour extravaganza other than that an Usher concert is top-tier experience, it’s that one of the world’s greatest entertainers of all time and is still at the top of his game.
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