I personally do not like the song. For an album like "Confessions" that has done so well for it to be followed up with Here I Stand and an album that is going to talk about a marriage he was just defending just seems weird. I think he would have done better with releasing a party track.
I hear Papers on the radio alot and I think it would have been better on his "here I stand" album. All his songs are starting to sound alike to me, he still is a great singer but he starting to go downhill a little bit.