Rap-Up.com || Usher Covers Foster the People’s ‘Pumped Up Kicks’

Usher unleashed his inner rock star during his appearance on BBC Radio 1Xtra’s “Live Lounge.” With a guitar in hand, the R&B crooner and his band performed a rockin’ cover of Foster the People’s Top 40 hit “Pumped Up Kicks.”

According to HITS Daily Double, Usher’s new album Looking 4 Myself is expected to debut at No. 1 on next week’s charts with around 120-130,000 copies. His previous album, Raymond v. Raymond, sold 329,000 in its first week.

Did Ursh kill it with his cover? Weigh in below.

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17 Comments

th3v3rdict
June 13th, 2012 at 11:37 am
interesting cover. not bad tho

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Vince
June 13th, 2012 at 11:44 am
Awesome! They totally rocked it!

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Jordan Gabriel
June 13th, 2012 at 11:59 am
The band ripped it apart!!! Usher didn’t bring anything. I’m not hating on him but seriously.. what did he bring to the song??? no energy, can’t hear his guitar playing (just for show), flat all the time. Props to the band that’s it.

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Mentamir Reply:
June 13th, 2012 at 3:54 pm
@Jordan Gabriel, does he need to jump up and down the stage, for this performance to be considered energetic? He definitely had energy and vocally it was aight.

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Jordan Gabriel Reply:
June 14th, 2012 at 6:08 am
@Mentamir, it’s not about jumping up and down, it’s about conveying some emotion. All the emotion I got, personally, was ”shit I have to remember the chords on this guitar and the words of this song”. you can’t deny that the band was ON POINT, he wasn’t. When I think Usher I don’t just want ”aight vocals” I’m used to much more than that from him, maybe I’m too reminiscent. Usher has become an average singer. This was average.

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Jordan Gabriel Reply:
June 14th, 2012 at 6:09 am
@Mentamir, did he give you life??

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Diego
June 13th, 2012 at 12:25 pm
Lmao only selling 130 thousand I expected more especially all the promo he did lol

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LAURYN
June 13th, 2012 at 12:30 pm
LOVED IT… GREAT COVER!!!

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hhhhhhaa please!
June 13th, 2012 at 1:39 pm
this era USher’s been making all the right moves, like i am in love with him all over again though i wasn’t sure why he needed a guitar, his vocals were on point as usual, the band was live the back up vocalists were dope great performance!

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SMH at your life
June 13th, 2012 at 1:41 pm
those sales are just sad

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Yo
June 13th, 2012 at 1:46 pm
I don’t see how artist like Usher Rihanna Jay and Kanye first week sales aren’t like all of Young Money but something isn’t right.

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TEAM WORLD Reply:
June 13th, 2012 at 2:51 pm
@Yo, Except for Rihanna the have at least one hit before the album come out and they each have real talent

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Kenyon Green
June 13th, 2012 at 6:17 pm
Didn’t this guy once sell a million records in one week? Boy have times change.

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iilxxxix
June 13th, 2012 at 6:46 pm
So…the background singers gave me more life than he did. Lol. That one with the braids was gettin’ it!

Anywhore. It was a cute performance. I would’ve liked to hear him sing the chorus. I didn’t know he played guitar. I’d give the performance an A. I enjoyed it.

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croqqe
June 13th, 2012 at 8:48 pm
he’s playing bass children

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TheDreamer
June 13th, 2012 at 8:56 pm
He did great. But those sales are just sad.

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GSTAR
June 13th, 2012 at 10:32 pm
@ all: as if everyone will buy hard copy these days. me as a TRUE fan bought his album. people keep on complaining bout his record yet his so called fans cant even buy 1. smh. not until a radio freindly song with top the chart! so dont blame ursh if he sells 130k in its frst wk. the dude don’t need to prove somethin cuz he done a great job with this.

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