Mary J Blige - The Breakthrough
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Canadian Music Store Music CD CoverArtist: Mary J BligeBrand: Baker & Taylor Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 2005-12-20 Music Label: Geffen Records Soundtracks:
Free Music Notes for The BreakthroughFree Music Review: Mary J. Blige does is again with "The Breakthrough"
I have been a Mary J. Blige fan since 1992 when she released "What's The 411". On "What's The 411" Mary J Blige caught my attention because she used hip hop samples mixed with r&b to create a sound that I wasn't use to. Tracks like "Love No Limit", "Real Love", "Reminisce", "Changes I've Been Through", basically the whole CD, remained in heavy rotation for awhile. However, when Mary J. Blige released "My Life" in 1994, I knew that I would be a Mary J Blige fan for life. This CD, 'til this day is my favorite CD of all time. At the most difficult time in her life, caught up with bad relationships, drugs and alcohol, Mary was still able to release one of the best r&b CDs I have ever heard. In certain songs, you could tell that Mary was crying for help and in others you could tell that she just wanted to give an honest perspective on various events that were going on in her life. Just as "What's The 411" could be, "My Life" could be played from beginning to end. There aren't many people who can release 2 CDs and have them be CDs that could be listened to in their entirety. "I Never Wanna Live Without You" is still one of my favorite slow jams of all time. In 1997, Mary J. Blige released "Share My World" and that CD would end up being a new beginning for Mary because she was no longer working with Sean "Puffy" Combs on her CDs. However, Mary still kept things going with tracks like "Everything", "Seven Days", "Love Is All We Need" w/Nas, "It's On" w/R Kelly and the title track. In 1999, Mary J Blige pulled a switch on us with "Mary". Mary J Blige turned in the hip hop and r&b sound and acted as if she wanted to be an adult contemporary r&b artist. She had a lot of ballads and midtempo tracks on this CD and some people were unable to relate to the Mary J Blige on this CD. However, once I heard "All That I Can Say" I knew that I wouldn't have a problem with this CD. "The Love I Never Had" is still one of my favorite Mary J Blige ballads and the duet with her former boyfriend K-Ci of Jodeci, "Not Lookin'", is still a classic in my opinion. In 2001, Mary returned with "No More Drama". She started the party with the Dr. Dre produced "Family Affair", she was ready for a vacation on the Neptunes' produced "Steal Away" and she definitely proved that she was ready to straighten her life out with the powerful "No More Drama", where Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis sampled the theme song to the soap opera, The Young & The Restless. I also can't forget the Missy Elliott produced "Never Been". After declaring that she didn't want anymore drama and even working with Puffy again on the "No More Drama (Remix)", Mary decided in 2003 to work with Puffy on another CD, "Love & Life". The CD was energized with the first single, "Love At First Sight" with Method Man and also featured other tracks that I enjoyed such as the Dr. Dre produced "Not Today" w/Eve, "Ooh" which sampled the same beat that ED OG & Da Bulldogs used back in the day on "I Got To Have It", "Willing & Waiting" and the powerful slow jam, "Special Part Of Me".
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