In reply to Tino.

I know that this is a waste of time, that the average TGJ reader/commenter has the maturity level of green banana and simply comes to this blog to use the anonymity that the 'net gives them to cowardly post what they wouldn't have the nerve to say to anyone's face in real life, but I'm bored so I'll respond to a few things...

1. No one would be talking about Justin in the first place if certain silly commenters here hadn't brought him up out of the blue, just to smear him. Timberlake is completely irrelevant to the topic, but rather than keep the excitement focused squarely on this latest news about Usher, the bitchy queens here at TGJ instead tries to use it to smear an artist totally unrelated to him. No one is acting like a "JT booty sniffer" (how very 3rd grade of you, by the way.) The real "haters" here are those anti-JT zealots who decided to give phony kudos to Usher simply to slight another singer. Sounds to me like you're not even a real Usher fan, you just have some peculiar grudge against Justin and are pretending to be 'Team Usher' to extol it. You probably didn't even buy Usher's last album.

2. Learn the difference between an underperformance and flop. Beyonce's '4' album didn't match her previous album sales, or live up to full previous commercial expectation, but it sold a million copies and was RIAA certified platinum in the US (a feat Usher's previous album did not do, real talk)...which for the past 3-5 years has been the current performance standard for a 'hit album'. When you take into account that it was an R&B album, and the only and last thoroughly R&B album to go platinum since 2011 before her current album, it was actually a feat for her...even if it didn't produce "Crazy In Love" results.

Every artist has a "peak," and they all are going to dip from it at some point. But if an album released performs to decent market/sales criteria, which '4' did, then it isn't a "flop."

3. I don't know about you, but I can't be "manipulated" into buying a $16 album. Those who bought Beyonce's current album did it because they wanted it. Marketing and commercial success is a strategic game for all artists/performers and their camps, and Beyonce's played it well with her latest album.

4. Grow up.