{"id":805659,"date":"2020-03-25T08:59:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T14:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=972332"},"modified":"2020-03-25T08:59:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T14:59:46","slug":"ushers-dont-waste-my-time-video-is-a-reminder-that-humans-used-to-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/ushers-dont-waste-my-time-video-is-a-reminder-that-humans-used-to-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Usher\u2019s \u2018Don\u2019t Waste My Time\u2019 Video Is a Reminder That Humans Used to Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/usher-video.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/usher\/\">Usher<\/a> dances his way through an opulent house party in the video for \u201cDon\u2019t Waste My Time,\u201d the star\u2019s new collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ella-mai\/\">Ella Mai<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/snoop-dogg\/\">Snoop Dogg<\/a>, the singer-songwriter Eric Bellinger, and the actor Evan Ross all make cameos in the clip, which is cheerful, frothy and carefree, a jarring reminder that humans were once able to party.<\/p>\n<p>When Usher was on top of the world between 1997 and 2004, his key collaborator was Jermaine Dupri. Together, the two men came up with five Number One singles during that period: \u201cNice and Slow,\u201d \u201cU Got It Bad,\u201d \u201cBurn,\u201d \u201cConfessions Part II,\u201d and \u201cMy Boo.\u201d Usher has endured a turbulent decade, so it\u2019s good to see him reunite with Dupri for \u201cDon\u2019t Waste My Time.\u201d The track is also co-produced by Bryan Michael-Cox, who played a prominent role in \u201cU Got It Bad,\u201d \u201cBurn,\u201d and \u201cConfessions Part II.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dupri and Cox serve Usher a minimal, throwback beat that evokes an old New Jack Swing hit from the group Hi-Five. The instrumental is little more than a blurt of drum programming and a synth line, which frees Usher to sing in swooping, giddy arcs. \u201cDon\u2019t Waste My Time\u201d has become a modest hit \u2014 it has accumulated around 20 million streams, and it reached an audience of 5.8 million on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rb\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rb\" data-tag=\"rb\">R&amp;B<\/a> radio last week, according to Mediabase.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/usher-dont-waste-my-time-video-972332\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usher dances his way through an opulent house party in the video for \u201cDon\u2019t Waste My Time,\u201d the star\u2019s new collaboration with Ella Mai. Snoop Dogg, the singer-songwriter Eric Bellinger, and the actor Evan Ross all make cameos in the clip, which is cheerful, frothy and carefree, a jarring reminder that humans were once able [&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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 10:05:41","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}