Video: Usher - Pumped Up Kicks in the Radio 1 Live Lounge

Much, much love for Usher’s  live cover of  Foster The People’s megahit “Pumped Up Kicks”. While successfully adapting his smooth vocals to the rock hit, the baby-making music genius shows that he can slappa da bass, as well. Usher just dropped a new album,  Looking 4 Myself , and will certainly be enjoying the frenzy surrounding the latest record from his protégé (some guy named Bieber, you might have heard of him), which was released yesterday.  Usher - “Pumped Up Kicks (Foster The People cover)”

Apparently Usher didn't get the memo that folks stopped endlessly covering "Pumped Up Kicks" once they discovered they'd rather focus on coming up with infinite personal twists on "Somebody That I Used To Know" and "Call Me Maybe", but we gotta say...the R&B superstar gets a pass for his tardiness cause his remake actually slams. Performed for BBC's Live Lounge , Ursh surprisingly makes hearing the Foster The People jam for the eleventy-billionth time a welcome occurrence, jazzing up the song with a fuzzy, stadium-friendly rock n' soul reading [...]

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This week the superstar that is known as Usher popped in to the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge to deliver, among his own silky RnB tunes, a pumped of cover of 'Pumped Up Kicks'. Introducing the tune as "one of my favourites..." playing the bass himself as he and his band rattle through the song, it's pretty damn good if you ask us. Poppier than a poppyfield of poptarts drinking fizzy pop, its actually a pretty faithful rendition. Check it out and download it below. Download: Usher - Pumped Up Kicks [...]

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Exciting things happened at Usher ’s recent BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge appearance! Not only did he wear a truly excellent denim vest, but Mr. Raymond personally laid down the fantastic, relentlessly catchy bassline from Foster the People ’s smash hit “Pumped Up Kicks.” We didn’t think this song could get any poppier, but Usher’s full-band, R&B-inflected version brings the multiple keyboards, the fuzzy guitars, the backup singers… We’re kind of crossing our fingers for a studio version. Continue reading: Check Out: Usher covers Foster the People [...]