Usher

Does anyone know how many music videos he goes shirtless in?
  1. You Make Me Wanna (1997)
  2. Nice & Slow (1998)
  3. U Got It Bad (2001)
  4. U Don’t Have To Call (2002)
  5. Confessions Part II (2004)
  6. Trading Places (2008)
  7. There Goes My Baby (2010)
  8. Lemme See (2012)
  9. Dive (2012)
  10. Numb (2012)
  11. Good Kisser (2014)
  12. Rivals (2016)
  13. Boyfriend (2023)
  14. Good Good (2023)
  15. Risk It All (2023)
Other videos with semi-shirtless moments where he raised up his shirt or had minimal shirtless shots.
  1. I Need A Girl (2002): raised up his shirt
  2. Burn (2004): very brief shots of him in the bed
  3. My Boo (2004): raised up his shirt
  4. Looking For Love (2011): same as above
 
  1. You Make Me Wanna (1997)
  2. Nice & Slow (1998)
  3. U Got It Bad (2001)
  4. U Don’t Have To Call (2002)
  5. Confessions Part II (2004)
  6. Trading Places (2008)
  7. There Goes My Baby (2010)
  8. Lemme See (2012)
  9. Dive (2012)
  10. Numb (2012)
  11. Good Kisser (2014)
  12. Rivals (2016)
  13. Boyfriend (2023)
  14. Good Good (2023)
  15. Risk It All (2023)
Other videos with semi-shirtless moments where he raised up his shirt or had minimal shirtless shots.
  1. I Need A Girl (2002): raised up his shirt
  2. Burn (2004): very brief shots of him in the bed
  3. My Boo (2004): raised up his shirt
  4. Looking For Love (2011): same as above
Lemme See and U Don’t Have To Call>>>>
 
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  1. You Make Me Wanna (1997)
  2. Nice & Slow (1998)
  3. U Got It Bad (2001)
  4. U Don’t Have To Call (2002)
  5. Confessions Part II (2004)
  6. Trading Places (2008)
  7. There Goes My Baby (2010)
  8. Lemme See (2012)
  9. Dive (2012)
  10. Numb (2012)
  11. Good Kisser (2014)
  12. Rivals (2016)
  13. Boyfriend (2023)
  14. Good Good (2023)
  15. Risk It All (2023)
Other videos with semi-shirtless moments where he raised up his shirt or had minimal shirtless shots.
  1. I Need A Girl (2002): raised up his shirt
  2. Burn (2004): very brief shots of him in the bed
  3. My Boo (2004): raised up his shirt
  4. Looking For Love (2011): same as above

Thanks. A few of the later ones there I'm not really familiar with though of course the U Got It Bad, U Don't Have To Call, Confessions and Trading Places videos are etched into my brain.

Seems a shame that he only really showed skin in a video once during the Confessions era tbh.
 
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Thanks. A few of the later ones there I'm not really familiar with though of course the U Got It Bad, U Don't Have To Call, Confessions and Trading Places videos are etched into my brain.

Seems a shame that he only really showed skin in a video once during the Confessions era tbh.
Everything's on YouTube and in 4K so you're in luck. You're right that he didn't show a lot of skin in his videos during Confessions. I think he wanted his videos to be more cinematic, which I think left little room for gratituous shirtless shots, lol. Yeah takes place in a club, Burn plays out like a drama, Confessions was the one time but we had to wait until the end, My Boo was filmed like a rom com and Caught Up was like a an MJ music video.

I don't know if you are familiar with Rhythm City: Caught Up but it's a mini movie with Caught Up and a few songs that were on the deluxe edition of Confessions and an EP he released. He goes shirtless during Seduction so I guess that counts as another moment. Usher went shirtless so many times during Confessions outside of videos, tbh. Performances, the tour, photo shoots, magazine covers, the In The Mix movie etc. I think this recent era (Vegas 2022, Coming Home era and PPF tour) was him making up for lost time because the latter half of the 2010s were some of his unsexiest years.
 
Too damn good. What a missed opportunity. I guess he didn’t wanna repeat Trading Places to an extent.
I think you’re right bc it would be quite similar and topically it fits better with Trading Places even though both talk about dynamics in the bedroom.
I don't know if you are familiar with Rhythm City: Caught Up but it's a mini movie with Caught Up and a few songs that were on the deluxe edition of Confessions and an EP he released.
A music video for Dot Com from that EP would’ve been interesting
 
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