It sold over 20 million copies worldwide and was certified Diamond by the RIAA. It sold eight million copies worldwide and won his first two Grammy Awards as Best Male R&B Vocal Performance in 20.Ĭonfessions (2004) established him as one of the best-selling musical artists of the 2000s decade, containing four consecutive Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles-" Yeah!" (featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris), " Burn", " Confessions Part II", and " My Boo" (with Alicia Keys)-and the top-ten "Caught Up". His third album, 8701 (2001), produced the number-one singles " U Remind Me" and " U Got It Bad", as well as the top-three single " U Don't Have to Call". Billboard Hot 100 number-one single " Nice & Slow", and the top-two singles " You Make Me Wanna." and " My Way". He released his self-titled debut album Usher (1994), and rose to fame in the late 1990s with the release of his second album My Way (1997). At the age of 12, his mother put him in local singing competitions before catching the attention of a music A&R from LaFace Records. He was born in Dallas, Texas, and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee, until moving to Atlanta, Georgia. And, in short, he ruined it for real directors of the future.Usher Raymond IV (born October 14, 1978) is an American R&B singer-songwriter and recording artist. In short, I wanted to scoop my own eyes out and replace them with cartoon bomb-jacks. Instead, he created the single worst movie on the planet (in every conceivable sense) with material that would have gifted a talented directorial new-start with a plethora of creative devices and opportunity. Shooting adverts for spam products might have been a challenge for him. The Director of the Bruce should be trialled for Cultural crimes and then, publicly, carted naked through the old streets of Edinburgh, before slowly being drawn against 'The Maiden'. Consequently, 'The Bruce' served only to mutilate and befoul not only history itself, but the chance of one day exploring that history in a better capacity than Braveheart ever did - through film - by simply telling the story (trust me, a Screenwriter's dream - as it is, left well alone) on the back of a good budget and high-profile pitch. Yes, Braveheart was a movie that *deserved* to be made, in it's identification and selling of Scottish history - I applauded it's success - but in doing so I also openly acknowledged the fact that it was a bad film. In 1996 Scotland deserved a 'proper' movie. We're talking about a time that, when the Scottish defensive wall at Berwick developed a weak spot, children and woman were sent to fill the place to keep the invader out. It saw some of the most deftifying, heroic, savage, heartbreaking and bloodthirsty history that's ever been. The quest for Scottish Independence was decades in the making. To me, however, there was a general eclipse of all that. The fact that one of the most important battles in 14th century Europe looked more like a disorganised pub fight, with no discernible cues to the viewer as to who was English or Scottish? The incomprehensibly boring narrative? The most ham-fisted, cheesiest, cliché ridden 'tottie-scone' dialogue, ever? Perhaps all of the above. What was the most irritating thing about this film? The appalling acting? The revelation that medieval knights apparently fought with an assortment of *very* wobbly rubber axes and other assorted joke shop armaments (honestly, a Pythonesque cow flip would not have been misplaced).
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