Usher has launched the video for his newest tune “Boyfriend,” impressed by and starring Keke Palmer.
The sultry video arrived Wednesday, and sees Usher proclaiming on the high of the tune, “Any individual mentioned that your boyfriend’s searching for me” earlier than occurring to sing, “Nicely he ought to know I’m fairly straightforward to seek out, simply search for me wherever he sees you.” At different factors within the tune, Usher guarantees that he’s “wherever” she is, together with “while you gradual dance by your self,” including, “in your head, since I’m not in your mattress, you simply think about.”
The duo first teased the video for Usher’s newest single on Tuesday in their very own separate social media posts. Every shared a quick 15-second trailer, which noticed the Nope and Hustlers actress strutting down a resort hallway after giving the digital camera seductive seems whereas seated at an arrogance and sipping champagne, whereas the “Burn” and “Yeah!” singer-songwriter seemingly walked the warmly lit halls of a live performance venue.
The complete video is a tongue-in-cheek reference to a social media drama that transpired in early July after Darius Jackson, the daddy of Palmer’s first baby, criticized her in quite a few tweets about her determination to put on a black, partially sheer outfit with a bodysuit beneath to an Usher live performance in Vegas.
Jackson’s preliminary and now-deleted assertion quoted a put up from the producer-actress and new mother that featured her being serenaded by the eight-time Grammy winner. “It’s the outfit tho… you a mother,” he mentioned on the time, earlier than receiving a wave of social media backlash that he additionally responded to in one other deleted tweet.
“We dwell in a technology the place a person of the household doesn’t need the spouse & mom to his youngsters to showcase booty cheeks to please others & he will get informed how a lot of a hater he’s,” Jackson wrote. “That is my household & my illustration. I’ve requirements & morals to what I imagine. I relaxation my case.”
At one level, Jackson deleted his Twitter earlier than reactivating it amid the web drama, and has since eliminated photographs of him and Palmer from his social media, studies Folks. Palmer, in the meantime, subtly addressed the web consideration by releasing a line of T-shirts, which she promoted on her Instagram.
“One factor is for certain and one factor is true, IM A MOTHA, by way of and thru! ‘IM A MOTHA’ and ‘Stevie to the bullshit’ shirts out there NOW!” Palmer wrote within the video put up’s caption. “To all my mother’s on the market, how did your child change you?? Mine empowered me! On such one other degree, my perspective modified as a result of when my child is sweet I’m GREAT! Have a look at that face! Gratitude galore.”
In an interview with Folks, Usher addressed the viral live performance video, telling the outlet, “I believe everyone’s imaginative and prescient or a model of what they felt occurred there simply leads you again to only actually having a very good time in Las Vegas. And that’s what I hope got here out of it.”
He continued, “It was a dialog of what was occurring with us having enjoyable in entrance of the viewers or dialog about that tune. Each night time I’m fascinated about how the world now could be going to react to this second that I’ll have with whoever I’m selecting to sing to. However it was a pop second, and it was enjoyable to have not less than dialog going and we simply preserve it gentle. I don’t see something adverse taking place in Las Vegas.”
