Good Good
by Usher (featuring Summer Walker & 21 Savage)

Album: Coming Home (2023)
Charted: 25
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Songfacts®:

  • "Good Good" is a post-breakup anthem where both sides remain on good terms and can newly coexist as friends.

    I'll be happy for you when you find another
    We ain't good good, but we still good


    Though they are not together anymore, Usher and his ex are still good people. They still care about each other and they still want the best for their former romantic partners.
  • Summer Walker duets with Usher on the song from the perspective of his former lover. She acknowledges they tried their best to make their relationship work, but it wasn't meant to be. Now it is time to move on, and they're both ready to find love again.
  • 21 Savage raps a verse is about how he still wants to be friends with his ex-lover. She loved him for who he was, even when he was broke and ashy. Now that he's rich and successful, he wants to help his ex and offers to help her pay for her new salon.
  • Usher previously collaborated with Summer Walker on her 2019 single "Come Thru." 21 Savage performed "My Boo" with Usher during one of his Las Vegas residency shows in April 2023.
  • Usher and 21 Savage wrote "Good Good" with Caleb Ishman, Jaylyn Denaie Macdonld, Keith Thomas, Hollywood Hot Sauce, Rafael D. Ishman, Tauren Stovall and the song's producers, Mel & Mus.
  • Mel & Mus is a production duo comprising Rivelino Raoul Wouter and Melvin Hough. They have produced a number of hit songs, including "Runaway Love" by Justin Bieber, "Don't Think They Know" by Chris Brown and "Barbie Dreams" by Nicki Minaj.
  • The song deals with an amicable breakup. "'Good Good' is not necessarily the most positive, but it is not bad," Usher explained to Apple Music. "It's not toxic. It's still a romantic song in the sense that we ain't got to be enemies. That's still a romantic way to have a conversation."

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