Tameka Foster: Don't blame me for last album

Recent Raymond divorcee' Tameka Foster says don't pin Usher's last album, "Here I Stand," on her. The followup to the 2004 smash "Confessions," didn't hold up well with Usher adapting the music and lyrics to a married lifestyle.
Foster says don't blame her. “People say it’s my fault he made all those songs,” she told the New York Times recently.
Foster, who's had to defend herself in different ways since the breakup became public, says the problem is with Usher's fans, who haven't grown with the singer.
“It was saddening,' she says. "For a man to find a mate and profess their love publicly, and then for fans to be mad at him just shows the immaturity in so many of them.”
Does she have a point? Usher has been taking his shirt off on stage and on videos since he was 14. When the sex appeal ran into a brick-wall-realization that he wasn't the same person, fans deserted him. But "Here I Stand" wasn't a disaster by any means.
The single "Love in This Club" proved popular to younger fans, and Usher actually sold 443,000 copies in the first week. But "Confessions" sold 10 milli.
Now, Usher hopes "Raymond v. Raymond" returns him to the raw, scandalized, bedroom secret success of "Confessions."
Foster probably wanted him to cater to older fans ala Brian McKnight, or Joe, but Usher's DNA screams otherwise. Since he just got a divorce, so will his wallet.


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The Hate-Motivatin' Life of Stephanie CalhounPorshe Foxx

Atlanta radio personality Porshe Foxx is kind of like that Kenny character on the adult animated cartoon "South Park." They'd kill Kenny in every episode, next show, Kenny would be back. Foxx knows what Kenny feels like. She's been fired (and almost fired) and brought back by radio station V-103 more times than one can count.
She still hasn't updated her Myspace page, which announces that she has been rehired by V103. That's so, so last year.
She was let go again last week under suspicious circumstances, according to Foxx.
Foxx, winding up a two-year contract, said she didn't know why the station let her go but that it wasn't because of drugs or alcohol.
But then she was named as a "person of interest" in a suspicious fire that burned down a townhouse in Union City outside Atlanta.
For her part, Foxx released a statement: "I had nothing, absolutely, positively, to do with any fire and I don’t know anyone involved."
Foxx was cleared in the fire a few days ago, but questions still linger.
See, several witnesses put Foxx at the scene of the blaze. Also in 2005, Foxx's home on Carriage Gate Trail in southwest Atlanta burned down as well.
Are we dealing with a pyromaniac or just a "mis-confrused" radio DJ?
Stay tuned: The plot will thicken for sure!