Usher tends to be a little hit and miss with me. "OMG" was interesting, but didn't have enough to keep me hooked, while "DJ Got Us Falling In Love" and "More" were both very catchy and dancy, but not particularly unique. However, "Scream" has got to be the worst one yet.
The song follows the basic pattern that we've heard in Usher's other dance songs, as well as most dance song today. It never does anything interesting, it doesn't build, there's nothing at all to keep me listening. It's not even that catchy, maybe on the first listen you'd be able to dance a bit, but after that it just becomes incredibly boring and repetitive.
The lyrics are even worse. It's the same old, same old, "I want to get with that hot girl" sort of thing. So that on it's own is boring, and the lyrics don't anything clever or creative to it. It's just a recycled old message. But it goes one step further by filling the rest of the song with filler lyrics like "Yeah" and "Ooh, baby baby." In fact you hear the phrase "Ooh baby baby" so much that it gets really annoying. It doesn't mean anything, it's just a clear sign that they're trying to fill a dance track with whatever reusable lyrics they can find.
Like I've said, there is no reason to want to listen to this song again. It is so tremendously boring with the same thing over and over. The music itself is not enticing and the lyrics are meaningless. But do you want to know what the worst part of this is? The worst part is knowing that this song is going to become a huge hit, and it'll be overplayed on all the pop radio stations where I'll be forced to listen to every time I turn on my radio and I'll just get more sick of a song that I already hate. I'm not looking forward to it.
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