At first listen, Usher’s Boyfriend would seem to be yet another in a long line of steal-your-girl songs from R&B’s king saboteur. “Somebody said that your boyfriend’s looking for me,” the song starts. “Oh, that’s cool / Well, he should know I’m pretty easy to find / Just look for me wherever he sees you.”
The music video has Keke Palmer, the child singer turned Nickelodeon star turned Good Morning America host turned Nope lead, on a girls’ trip to Usher’s buzzy Las Vegas residency. The video ends with a still-in-bed Palmer realizing it was all a dream and disappointed in herself for sleeping through the Usher show. “Shit, I’m so tired,” she sighs. “You know, I’m a mother. After all.”
