He offers a briefcase to the gangsters, which explodes after being opened and a grenade starts to blow. Usher appeals to the police, who are apparently of no help, and proceeds to locate the gangsters' lair himself. Usher and Simmons drive across a bridge, and midway they are confronted by several gangsters, who kidnap and cage Simmons and beat Usher. As the day becomes night, Usher is seen wearing sunglasses playing the guitar and dancing shirtless in front of the Eiffel Tower. Interspersed are low-angle shots of Usher dancing on a sidewalk. Usher and Simmons prepare for their date and meet each other before sightseeing around Paris in a convertible. He is shown shirtless in a hotel room having a telephone conversation with his love interest, consisting of the song's spoken intro.
The video opens with the caption "4:00 pm Paris" as Usher gets out of an airplane. Kimora Lee Simmons plays Usher's love interest. The music video for the song was directed by Hype Williams and shot in Paris in February 1998. On the UK Singles Chart, "Nice & Slow" reached number 24. It remained atop the chart on February 21, but on February 28 it was replaced by Celine Dion's " My Heart Will Go On". "Nice & Slow" continued to ascend the Hot 100, reaching number one on February 14, succeeding " Together Again" by Janet Jackson. On February 2, 1998, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) awarded the song a gold certification, following up with a platinum one on February 12. "Nice & Slow" debuted at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 on the chart dated January 24, 1998, as " You Make Me Wanna.", the first single from My Way slipped from number seven to number ten. In 2016, Complex ranked the song number seven on their list of the 25 greatest Usher songs, and in 2021, American Songwriter ranked the song number eight on their list of the 10 greatest Usher songs.
A writer for Jet praised Usher's "tender" vocals on the "sensuous ballad", stating that he displayed romance on the song. Critical reception Ī writer for the Daily News called it "warmly engaging". In the United Kingdom, "Nice & Slow" was issued as CD single, a 12-inch single, and a cassette single on April 20, 1998. A maxi single was released on March 2, 1998, and a remixes CD was made available on March 9, 1998. On February 3, 1998, it was serviced to US contemporary hit radio. "Nice & Slow" was released via CD single and cassette single in the United States on January 6, 1998. Usher said to Time that "Nice & Slow" is "somewhat of an intimate story between a man and a woman." Release "Nice & Slow" features a spoken introduction, while in the middle of the song Usher performs a melodic rap, which Billboard 's Shawnee Smith compared to the syle of Do or Die. Usher's voice spans from the low note of E ♭ 4 to the high note of A ♭ 5. Set in the key of A ♭ major, it follows the basic chord progression of Fm 11–Cm 7–D ♭maj 13–E ♭ 9sus. According to the sheet music published at by Universal Music Publishing Group, "Nice & Slow" is written in common time with a slow tempo of sixty-eight beats per minute.
Ripani wrote that "Nice & Slow" is an example of the typical "R&B ballad style that became widely popular" in the late 1990s. "Nice & Slow" is a slow R&B, pop and soul ballad with hip hop influences. The composition and recording of "Nice & Slow" took four hours, according to Dupri. The beat was created first, and the lyrics were fitted to it. Dupri recalled telling Usher he needed a ballad to "knock out the world". Tan and Dupri mixed the record with assistance from John and Brian Frye at Studio LaCoCo, in Atlanta, Georgia. "Nice & Slow" was recorded by Phil Tan at the Somewhere in College Park studio in College Park, Georgia. Jagged Edge provided background vocals in the record. "Nice & Slow" was written by Usher, Jermaine Dupri, Manuel Seal, and Brian Casey, with Dupri producing the tune and Seal serving as co-producer and responsible for the guitar work. The song was written by Usher, Brian Casey of the R&B group Jagged Edge, Manuel Seal Jr. Released on January 6, 1998, the song became Usher's first number-one single on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in February 1998. " Nice & Slow" is a song from American singer-songwriter Usher's second album, My Way (1997).
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