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Music CD - Mary J. Blige: Growing Pains
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Music CD: Growing Pains
Artist: Mary J. Blige
List Price: $13.98
Our Price: $6.49
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Manufacturer: Geffen Records
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Tracks:
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1. Work That
2. Grown Woman featuring Ludacris
3. Just Fine
4. Feel Like a Woman
5. Stay Down
6. Hurt Again
7. Shakedown featuring Usher
8. Till the Morning
9. Roses
10. Fade Away
11. What Love Is
12. Work in Progress (Growing Pains)
13. Talk To Me
14. If You Love Me?
15. Smoke
16. Come To Me (Peace)
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0602517520301
Label: Geffen Records
Manufacturer: Geffen Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Geffen Records
Release Date: 2007-12-18
Studio: Geffen Records
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Mary J. Blige is back and upbeat!!!
Comment: I love this WHOLE cd...without skipping a song. My favorite song on the whole cd is "Work In Progress." When she breaks this song down it practically brings me to tears. I can definitely relate to every word she sings. My son is almost 15 years old and he loves this whole cd. When he gets in the car he's ready to pop it in too and hit the repeat on several of the songs. Great job Mary and keep 'em coming!!!
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Summary: Horrible!!!
Comment: This has to be the worst album Mary has ever made. I listened to it 1 time then gave it away. What a waste of money
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Summary: the break what!
Comment: if music is about the collaboration of the soul and the beat, mary j. blige's " Growing Pains" is a prime example. on her eighth album, mary blends the rawness of hip hop, smooth r and b, and even ventures to soft rock to emphasize different emotions. for example, "smoke" a song about the insecurities one has in a relationship, is midtempo soft rock ballad that compliments her hesistant but strong voice. " just fine", the lead single from the album, is a one on one therapy session with a life coach that makes you feel good because she's good...fine. with a micheal jaxckson's off the wall feel, you cant help but to get up and celebrate life for what it is. on the other hand, when mary is pissed, we know to run for the boarder with tracks like "roses". however, the track that stands out is " till the morning" which i personally think should be the next single with its tribe called quest inspired beat. overall, " Growing Pains" is the standard for r and b albums for 2008 because it blends , expresses every emotion of love, tries different genres of music and is the truth. beyonce take note!
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Summary: A healed Mary
Comment: Mary J. Blige said on VH1's Storytellers that most people were saying they don't like her music now that she's happy. My friends and me have been having this discussion since after "No More Drama" was released and news of Mary's happiness and marriage and salvation had made news all over.
I am the rare person who loves to see another person rise, even an artist. I know artists are supposed to suffer to create good art, but Mary did that in the early to mid-90s -- now she's grown up. I love "Grown Woman" with Missy Elliott and Ludacris, it's a great summer single; "Roses" answers those who think that a happy life is unfettered by drama; "Stay Down" is inspirational love music for those who are not sure whether they're going to stick with that relationship. There's something for everyone on this album, if you can stand Mary's maturity.
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Summary: MJB: Never a disappointment.
Comment: I'm very late on this review, but I love the newest installment. It's great. Don't hesitate to purchase it. Every song on the CD is excellent, and representative of Mary's versatility. She is a true songstress.
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Editorial Reviews:
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"I'm talkin' 'bout things I know," Mary J. Blige wails on "Work That," the second single and opening track of Growing Pains. The album squeaked into 2007 too late to make best-of lists but otherwise would have stormed its way up several, for sure. She needn't have hit us with such a pronouncement: In 16 songs that ring as remarkably, unflinchingly true as those on 2005's landmark The Breakthrough, the queen of hip-hop soul keeps "keeping it real" a specialty. There's no sense in trying to assign credit for the skin-tight grooves and funked-up retro vibe here; with nine producers padding Blige's emotion-rich voice and the lyrics she so obviously lives by, what we're left with is a melange of sounds. But it's a measure of an artist who has mastered her own identity and left nothing to chance that this, her eighth studio album, comes off so free of wild cards and loose edges. "You ask what love feels like," she sings on "What Love Is," one of the disc's less fierce tracks. "It feels like joy, and it feels like pain, and it feels like sunshine, and it feels like rain," she continues, answering the question. The album feels the same way, a passel of complex feelings all wrapped up in love. No one knows struggle, heartache, and triumph over mediocrity like Blige. --Tammy La Gorce
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