Walking out in a glistening silver suit and eyes hidden behind a giant pair of pink lemonade-coloured aviators, R&B legend Usher opened a fourth consecutive night of Paris shows with so much charisma that it was easy to overlook the fact he was dressed like a cross between a human disco ball and a Miami Vice villain.
Rolling his shoulders, moon-walking, and doing pop and lock dance moves that not many 44-year-old men could ever get away with, Usher glided across the stage with the grace of Fred Astaire, moving perfectly in time with the booming, ascendent synths of his 2008 smash Love In This Club. With those trademark buttery smooth vocals, he cooed the words “I’ll set you free / Sexually, mentally, physically, emotionally” directly to a screaming 30-something woman in the front-row .
