Usher's Facing Quite The Dilemma In "Climax"

Usher is tempted to steal back the woman of his life from his love rival and lets his emotions get the best of him in his latest moody visual offering for the ultra-sexual song "Climax," the lead single from Usher's upcoming seventh album, features juicy scenes in which he makes love to the camera and is so passionate and full of rage he nearly bursts through the screen and places Usher in a difficult position as he battles heartbreak.
This slow break-up jam finds the 33-year-old R&B superstar in lover mode as he croons in his falsetto, "Where are you now, when I need you around?" over Philadelphia producer Diplo's rippling synths. "It's odd that people view 'Climax' as a sexual song," he said in an interview. "It's not. It's not even about sex. It's really about the ultimate experience or finale of an experience of love and life." The song was released via Twitter on February 14 as a Valentine's Day present for his fans. It's a doubly satisfying departure from Usher and Diplo's respective strains of club-ready fare!
As if Usher's single "Climax," which details the struggles of loss and yearning when a relationship goes south, wasn't dramatic enough, the music video adds a whole new dark element to the song. Directed by Sam Pilling, this dramatic, highly-suspenseful and attention-gripping clip was shot in Atlanta, and visually captures the energy and extreme intensity of Usher's game-changing and "Sexxxxxxy" (Rolling Stone) single, as Usher looks suitably anguished throughout the promo while he croons and takes us through a few twists and turns of a very complicated situation.
Sitting outside his love interest's house in his car contemplating his next move with a gun loaded before he reaches his climax. Usher mentally goes through all the possible scenarios that can go down if he tries to get his girl away from another man. Though the video's narrative is a little muddled, but it essentially features bits and pieces of a forbidden relationship and allows Usher to really live in the pathos of the song's heartbroken lyrics, and it is difficult to look away from Usher when he sings so passionately. Unlike true Usher style, the clip is a purely cinematic affair that casts him as a jealous spurned lover.