Usher says he'll continue to be vulnerable on next album: “I'm gonna give you my honest feelings”

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Usher kicked off his Dolby Live at Park MGM Las Vegas residency over the weekend, and the eight-time Grammy winner is planning to drop his first new album in six years soon.

He tells Entertainment Tonight that the project, his ninth studio album, will be a continuation and “celebration to the story that we’ve been building throughout all of these years.”

“I try to be open, honest, vulnerable and direct with my audience,” the singer says. “It’s meant so much to have these songs and why they were done — they were done to help us kind of