Current:Home > reviewsUsher setlist: All the songs on his innovative Past Present Future tour -Infinite Edge Capital
Usher setlist: All the songs on his innovative Past Present Future tour
View
Date:2025-04-12 16:04:58
Usher is (finally) returning to the road.
Coming off of his 2024 Super Bowl halftime show in February, his Essence Festival show in July and 100 shows of a critically acclaimed Las Vegas residency, the singer kicked off his tour Aug. 20 Washington, D.C. after a neck injury forced him to reschedule the first three shows.
Embarking on the Past Present Future tour, his first in eight years, Usher is firing on all cylinders as he takes the stage for a two-hour extravaganza. Somehow even better at 45 than he was at 25, when his 2004 chart-topping, hit album "Confessions" dropped, the R&B legend runs through more hits than most fans realize he has and weaves in tracks from his latest album, "Coming Home."
"I'm promoting a legacy: past, present and future. I've been doing this long enough to celebrate the legacy of my music from the beginning of my career up until an incredible moment that I'm having," he tells USA TODAY ahead of the tour.
48 hours with Usher:Concert preparation, family time and what's next for the R&B icon
Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.
Cruising through each section of the show, Usher uses that tech to connect different eras of his career in a new way. He reimagines versions of his life, including an older Usher from 2044 who made different life decisions, and mimics a video call with younger iterations of himself talking and smiling back at him.
Usher oozes ease as he makes his way around the stage, bumping and grinding and crooning and seducing the mainly aunties and nieces in the audience. His quick changes produce silky, bejeweled look after look, replete with overcoats, larger-than-life sunglasses and slinky tops, all of which manage to find a way off of him to get to the core
The Usher: Past Present Future tour has more than 45 songs that span 30 years of music.
The Essentials:As Usher prepares for Super Bowl halftime show, here are his must-haves
Usher: Past Present Future tour setlist
- "Coming Home"
- "Hey Daddy (Daddy's Home)"
- "Big"
- "Call Me a Mack"
- "Think of You"
- "Can U Get Wit It"
- "My Way"
- "U Make Me Wanna"
- "8701 Interlude"
- "U Remind Me"
- "U Don't Have to Call"
- "Caught Up"
- "Don't Waste My Time"
- "Love In This Club"
- "Tell Me"
- "Say What U Want"
- "New Flame"
- "Margiela"
- "Party"
- "Lil Freak"
- "Lovers And Friends"
- "Nice & Slow"
- "U Got It Bad"
- "Climax"
- "Burn"
- "Confessions Part II"
- "Monstar"
- "Euphoria"
- "OMG"
- "DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love"
- "Without You"
- "Superstar"
- "There Goes My Baby"
- "I Need a Girl"
- "Invented Sex (Remix)"
- "Trading Places"
- "The Matrimony"
- "Good Love"
- "I Don't Mind"
- "Throwback"
- "Bad Girl"
- "Good Kisser"
- "Ruin"
- "Peace Sign"
- "Seduction"
- "Good Good"
- "Yeah!"
veryGood! (621)
Related
- See you latte: Starbucks plans to cut 30% of its menu
- Questlove charts 50 years of SNL musical hits (and misses)
- This was the average Social Security benefit in 2004, and here's what it is now
- Tree trimmer dead after getting caught in wood chipper at Florida town hall
- Trump invites nearly all federal workers to quit now, get paid through September
- The Grammy nominee you need to hear: Esperanza Spalding
- Which apps offer encrypted messaging? How to switch and what to know after feds’ warning
- Nevada attorney general revives 2020 fake electors case
- IRS recovers $4.7 billion in back taxes and braces for cuts with Trump and GOP in power
- Meet first time Grammy nominee Charley Crockett
Ranking
- A White House order claims to end 'censorship.' What does that mean?
- Are Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp down? Meta says most issues resolved after outages
- Meet first time Grammy nominee Charley Crockett
- Average rate on 30
- 'Kraven the Hunter' spoilers! Let's dig into that twisty ending, supervillain reveal
- Charges tied to China weigh on GM in Q4, but profit and revenue top expectations
- Could Bill Belichick, Robert Kraft reunite? Maybe in Pro Football Hall of Fame's 2026 class
- Woman dies after Singapore family of 3 gets into accident in Taiwan
Recommendation
Travis Hunter, the 2
Don't let hackers fool you with a 'scam
Are Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp down? Meta says most issues resolved after outages
The city of Chicago is ordered to pay nearly $80M for a police chase that killed a 10
Alex Murdaugh’s murder appeal cites biased clerk and prejudicial evidence
McConnell absent from Senate on Thursday as he recovers from fall in Capitol
California DMV apologizes for license plate that some say mocks Oct. 7 attack on Israel
EU countries double down on a halt to Syrian asylum claims but will not yet send people back