The fan froze, Usher stopped the song in the middle: "I don't think she wants to be here"
The sexy serenade turned into a particularly viral and embarrassing moment, as the young woman chosen from the audience recoiled from the singer's touch. After taking heat on social media, she certainly didn't remain silent: "I looked bomb, don't be bullies against me."
Embarrassment at a concert: musician Usher stopped in the middle of a sexy serenade for a fan who went up on stage with him in Nashville, after it seemed she felt uncomfortable. This happened on Saturday, during his joint tour with Chris Brown, when the fan was chosen from the audience for the regular segment where Usher sings to someone on stage. Only this time, in front of a shirtless Usher touching her chin and face lightly, she mostly looked frozen — the video has already gone viral and sparked reactions.
"I don't think she wants to be on stage, huh?" Usher said to the audience, after he tried to get her to lean on the bed placed on the stage and she moved backward stiffly.
The 47-year-old singer moved away from her, looked confused and later also annoyed, and signaled with his hand to have her taken off the stage — while part of the audience started booing. The fan did not remain silent. After she was criticized on social media for going up on stage even though she didn't want to be there, she wrote: "First of all, no one refuses to go up on stage. I looked bomb, you think I wouldn't let thousands of people see me?".
According to her, she arrived at the concert with her mother to her seats, and even before the show started she was moved to the VIP area because of what she defined as "pretty privilege". "They don't tell you who you're going up there for," she wrote later. "You wanted me to go up there and f*** him or what?". Yesterday she already uploaded a selfie with the caption "unbothered" and a kiss emoji. "You will not go on the internet, call me names and belittle me, and then expect me to keep my cool," she wrote on Instagram. "Don't think you'll manage to be bullies against me because of an experience you didn't get."
Usher has long since turned intense interactions with fans into part of the show. About two weeks ago he provided fans with a rather revealing moment in the middle of the performance. During a show in Maryland, the singer got up from a bed placed on the stage, and while performing Seduction, exposed his buttocks to the audience. Of course, it was documented and ran on TikTok as is customary these days.
