{"id":974033,"date":"2019-12-13T03:27:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T10:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=926597"},"modified":"2019-12-13T03:27:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T10:27:04","slug":"hear-usher-team-up-with-ella-mai-on-dont-waste-my-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/hear-usher-team-up-with-ella-mai-on-dont-waste-my-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Usher Team Up With Ella Mai on \u2018Don\u2019t Waste My Time\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/download.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/usher\/\" id=\"auto-tag_usher\" data-tag=\"usher\">Usher<\/a> has released a new song, \u201cDon\u2019t Waste My Time,\u201d featuring British singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ella-mai\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ella-mai\" data-tag=\"ella-mai\">Ella Mai<\/a>. The track, co-produced by Bryan-Michael Cox and Jermaine Dupri, is a smooth-talking R&amp;B pop number.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood lovin\u2019, no questions,\u201d Usher croons on the hooky track. \u201cReach out, and you\u2019ll touch me\/ Bad habits, don\u2019t judge me\/ Just don\u2019t waste my time.\u201d Mai jumps in midway through the song with her own verse as the pair trade off lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>Usher\u2019s last release was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/usher-zaytoven-a-review-736842\/\"><em>A<\/em><\/a>, an eight-track album he dropped as a surprise last year. The effort followed his 2016 solo album <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-usher-comes-clean-on-brooding-adventurous-hard-ii-love-101819\/\">Hard II Love<\/a>&nbsp;<\/i>and was a collaboration with Atlanta rap producer Zaytoven. Mai\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/ella-mai-review-debut-album-735192\/\">self-titled debut album<\/a> dropped last year as well, following the success of her R&amp;B-inspired single \u201cBoo\u2019d Up.\u201d \u201cR&amp;B is not dead,\u201d Mai <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/ella-mai-interview-bood-up-trip-album-732451\/\">told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>. \u201cWe can make it mainstream again. Clearly, people love it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/usher-ella-mai-dont-waste-my-time-926597\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usher has released a new song, \u201cDon\u2019t Waste My Time,\u201d featuring British singer Ella Mai. The track, co-produced by Bryan-Michael Cox and Jermaine Dupri, is a smooth-talking R&amp;B pop number. \u201cGood lovin\u2019, no questions,\u201d Usher croons on the hooky track. \u201cReach out, and you\u2019ll touch me\/ Bad habits, don\u2019t judge me\/ Just don\u2019t waste my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 17:44:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}