After 4 years since the album “Confessions” has hit the market, Usher releases “Here I Stand”, an album that comes as proof to the fact that the musician has grown up both as a man and as an artist.

People who loved the bouncing songs on Usher’s last album and who are waiting for the same thing from “Here I Stand” might not be very happy with it. The album has a much less macho-clubbing attitude and reveals Usher embracing family responsibilities, and tasting the joys that come with it.

The idea that lies in most of the tracks is the artist’s joy and bewilderment at how his life used to be and how his loved one changed it for the better. Even the more club-anthem-like track, “Love in This Club” has Beyonce singing: “I got a man, you got a lady.”

The musician’s family life is present everywhere throughout the album and his feelings for the loved ones take all forms, from the hesitation a man who is about to cheat feels, to his desire to do all the small things that could show his love for his wife. Usher’s commitment to family life goes even beyond lyrics, with the artist’s baby son being recorded on one of the tracks.

Usher has married stylist Tameka Foster in a quiet ceremony in Atlanta on August 3, 2007. On November 26, the two became the parents of Usher Raymond V.

On his latest album, Usher collaborates with some of the best known and well appreciated names of the music industry like Beyonce, Jay-Z, Young Jeezy or Wii.i.am.