Los Angeles, California – His white coat shining bright underneath a lone spotlight, Usher found a way to lighten up a packed house at Club Nokia on November 19th.

“Ladies, I brought you here for one reason…a one-night-stand,” the singer said in a romantic voice that can only be outdone by the likes of Marvin Gaye or Teddy Pendergrast.

“And what happens here, stays here,” he continued, causing just about every woman in the joint to drop their panties and toss them at Usher’s chest.

Dubbed “One Night Stand,” the show was advertised as a “Ladies Only” tour.

“This night was supposed to be for the ladies only,” Usher told a raucous crowd of screaming women, somewhat facetiously. “I was hoping to have you all to myself.”

Clearly, some men –- including this writer –- did not get that memo.

Nonetheless, there was a memo all of us did get from Usher –- we should all be enthralled and entertained.

Enthralled and entertained we were, Mr. Raymond.

As the solo R&B artist took the stage amidst women with weak legs and men with mutual respect, Usher worked his Los Angeles audience with a performance with equal parts romance and energy.

With his best music ranging from slow jams for the ladies to bass-thumping songs for the dudes, it was impossible to limit his show to just the ladies. There were definitely moments when even the most yoked-out of security guards had to loosen up a bit and dance to the beat of Usher’s drum (in the manliest of ways, of course).

The females definitely had their fill of Mr. Raymond, whose face glistened with sweat underneath the bright spotlight shining on him from the balcony-level seats of the just-opened Club Nokia.

For nearly two hours, Usher captivated the hearts and minds of the 1,000-plus fans who filled Los Angeles’s newest venue on the southern outskirts of downtown.

While romancing women during the first hour with a medley of songs only lovers could appreciate, the 30-year-old Atlanta native pumped it up a notch during the second hour with some of his more up-beat songs, turning Club Nokia into an epicenter of human-induced earthquakes and bass-thumping, speaker-generated aftershocks.

In between, he managed to throw in a few old-school songs written before he was conceived, shortly before bringing a white piano on stage to serenade four hand-selected female fans from the crowd.

Not to completely outdo himself, Usher even performed two steamy, provocative numbers with two of his female dancers, virtually stripping down to his boxers at the screaming pleasure of his fans.

All the while, Mr. Raymond proved why he is a five-time Grammy award-winner –- his music is such that couples and individuals can vibe to, with his skills as songwriter and performer enough to make any woman melt in his arms or get off the wall to dance in the club.

While the female-themed concert managed to shore up a sizeable male turnout, “Ladies Only” was true to its name in another regard –- “One Night Stand.”

Just as quickly as the lights flared up at the end of the show, Mr. Raymond was off to his next performance in another area code –- next up, the 702 of Las Vegas.

Yet his fans in sunny Southern California were so entertained, they will not live by the credo of that city in its backyard. What happened in Club Nokia definitely will not stay in Club Nokia. Instead, everyone will be talking about the entertaining concert until the Atlanta singer returns here on his next tour.

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