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Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Usher: Super Bowl Bonus

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Pushkin Industries

Music, Society & Culture

4.54.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Four decades into his career, Usher is at the peak of his powers. In the year since he was on Broken Record, Usher became the king of the Las Vegas strip. According to Billboard, he grossed over $100 million dollars during his beloved Vegas residency.

To celebrate his much anticipated halftime performance at this year's Super Bowl, along with his upcoming arena tour, and the release of his new album “Coming Home,” here's Justin Richmond's conversation with the one and only, Usher.

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Pushkin

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I'm Alex Schwartz I'm Nomy Fry I'm Vincent Cunningham and this is Critics at Large, a New Yorker

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podcast for the culturally curious. Each week we're going to talk about a big idea that's showing up

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across the cultural landscape and we'll trace it through all the mediums we love.

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And I always want to talk about celebrity gossip too.

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Of course.

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What are you guys excited to cover in the next few months?

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There's a new translation of The Iliad that's coming out, Emily Wilson.

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I'm really excited to see whether I can read the Iliad again, whether I'm that literate.

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I mean, the jury is out. I can't wait to hear Adam

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driver go again in an Italian accent in Michael Mann's Ferrari. He can't stop.

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Who would have thought that in the fourth decade of his career, Usher would still be at the peak of his powers?

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Since I spoke to him on this podcast exactly a year ago, not only did he add more dates to his incredibly successful Las Vegas residency, but he spent most of those

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added dates seducing all the starlets who turned up, re-establishing himself as the consummate

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