Caught Up

In this song, a girl has turned the tables on Usher. He's usually the one in control, but this lady has some kind of power over him and he's all caught up. His homies tell him it's cramping his style, but he's powerless to resist.

Usher used a few different production teams on the Confessions album. "Caught Up" was courtesy of Andre Harris and Vidal Davis, known as Dre & Vidal. They wrote the song along with Ryan Toby and Jason "Poo Bear" Boyd. Toby also has credits on "Miami" by Will Smith and "What Would You Do?" by his group City High; Poo Bear went on to write songs for Usher's protégé Justin Bieber, including "Change Me" and "What Do You Mean?"

The opening lines, "I'm the kind of brother who's been doing it my way, getting my way for years," are a reference to Usher's second album, My Way, released in 1997 when he was 18.