“The reason why we were dealing with those criticisms were people who loved R&B saw her ushered in as a hip-hop vehicle,” says Burrowes.
She wasn’t trying to prove her singing style to herself, but to critics who consistently put her distinctive voice under scrutiny. “The Mary album was supposed to break her out, establish that she could straddle any genre, still be herself and reach her audience,” Kirk Burrowes, executive producer of Blige’s fourth album, exclusively tells Rated R&B.īlige made a point on Mary to challenge herself to inhabit the songs and render them with more vocal depth. Mary was intended to introduce Blige as a supreme presence in the music realm that could shift her artistic thinking and deliver another quintessential album. It was created and confessed to get me out of a dark situation, and I learned confessing positive things begins to manifest," she said.Much deeper, Mary also served as an aspirational plane for Blige to position herself as more than a hip-hop entity who had built her career on street-styled R&B with legacy soul samples. Mary added that she was in a dark place when she began working on the album. I had to say something that was really powerful, that I didn’t even believe, to say it to myself in the morning because who looks good in the morning?" While explaining the title of the album's title track, Mary told ET, "I couldn’t give up on myself. The event was sponsored by Sun Goddess Wines, Pepsi, 300 Entertainment and Amazon R&B Rotation.
Henson, DJ D-Nice, Ella Mai, Ne-Yo, and more. Guests included Bruno Mars, Anderson Paak, Nas, Taraji P. The 51-year-old entertainer, who is performing at the Super Bowl Halftime Show this weekend, hosted the part at The Classic Cat on Thursday night (February 10) in West Hollywood, Calif. Blige just released her new album Good Morning Gorgeous and she was joined by lots of celebs to celebrate the drop!
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