Usher Warns Fans After Viral Nashville Incident: “Don’t Bring Your Ass Up Here If You Don’t Want To Be Here”

Usher Warns Fans After Viral Nashville Incident: “Don’t Bring Your Ass Up Here If You Don’t Want To Be Here”

The onstage seduction routine has been a part of Usher's live show for a very long time. He basically does a variation on Janet Jackson's old "miscellaneous uncs shoot poison" routine. Usher tells the crowd that he needs one sexy lady to share the stage with him, and then that one sexy lady comes up and grinds on him while he sings to her. Usher is good at that kind of thing, but it can lead to some extremely funny awkwardness if the one sexy lady isn't into it. That's what happened last weekend in Nashville.Right now, Usher is on a co-headlining tour with Chris Brown, which is an issue that we're not even going to get into here. On Saturday night, that tour came to Nashville's Nissan Stadium, and the one sexy lady clearly was not comfortable with the idea of Usher grinding on her. She just kind of froze and didn't make any eye contact. Usher stopped, made a Jim Halpert face, and told the crowd, "I don’t think she wanna be on the stage" before kind of shooing her off. The video of that moment quickly went viral after the Shade Room posted it.As Complex reports, the story got funnier when that particular sexy lady chimed in. On Facebook, a woman named Gabrielle Cheyenne claimed to be that one sexy lady, and she offered her perspective on the whole episode: First off NOBODY is declining to go on stage. I looked good asf, you thought I wasn't gonna let THOUSANDS of people see me?? On the big screen, where you bitches will never be ???? My mom and I had FLOOR SEATS. Their team approached us and moved us to VIP before the show even started !! PRETTY PRIVILEGES something you hoes will never know about !! They don't say who you're going up there for !! Y'all wanted me to get up there and fck him atp ?? CHATT FOLKS AREN'T USED TO ANYTHING. That's the most exciting thing that would've happened in y'all little ass lives !! Fck yall, DISRESPECTFULLY [kissy face emoji]Poetry. On Tuesday night, that same tour made its way to Birmingham, Alabama's Protective Stadium. This time around, Usher had to make sure that he and the audience were on the same page, and he referenced that Facebook post: "Before we get started, don't bring your ass up here if you don't wanna be here. God don’t like ugly, but he most certainly don’t feel too good about pretty privilege either, do he?" He said it playfully. It didn't seem harsh or anything. And he must've gotten his point across, since that night's one sexy lady turned out to be much more receptive to his "Can You Handle It?" performance. @tmz ? Usher made sure to let the crowd at his next tour stop know NOT to come on stage if they don't want to be there! ?: YT/CultureBitez ♬ original sound - TMZ - TMZ

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