Usher’s Nashville Serenade Goes Wrong When Woman Freezes On Contact

Usher invited a woman onstage at the Nashville R&B Tour stop and she froze solid, so he sent her back with a laugh and kept it moving.

Usher pulled a woman onstage at Saturday’s R&B Tour stop in Nashville, and she froze solid the second the spotlight hit.

He clocked her unease fast and chuckled to the crowd: “I don’t think she want to be on the stage.” He sent her back to her seat without missing a beat, and the 38-second clip has been running as a meme ever since.

To understand why this is so funny, you have to understand what this tour is built for. The R&B Tour with Chris Brown is a two-hour seminar in making women forget they have sense.

Both men show up extremely prepared for that assignment, and the Nashville woman declined to participate.

Usher’s set runs on intense eye contact, slow serenades and cherry dangling that have triggered full system shutdowns in women across multiple countries.

It started with a viral Taraji P. Henson moment and has since melted Gabrielle Union, Issa Rae and a steady rotation of lucky civilians. The woman in Nashville did not receive, or chose to ignore, all prior research on this topic.

Social media immediately had two dominant theories about what happened. A large portion of the comments suggested she was simply holding out for Chris Brown’s set, which is a defensible strategy.

Others credited Usher for immediately acknowledging her discomfort and handling it with grace rather than pushing through.

The Raymond and Brown Tour is a co-headlining stadium run named as a double entendre, with Usher’s last name, Raymond and Brown’s last name, Brown, spelling out R&B.

The two legends have been selling out stadiums all summer with a combined catalog of over 50 songs per night, bringing women onstage as a signature element of the experience at every stop.

Usher once said the serenade makes everyone in the room feel what one person feels, and the Nashville crowd felt her panic loud and clear.

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