Mary J. Blige - Growing Pains
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Track List: Growing Pains
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- Work That
- Grown Woman
- Just Fine
- Feel Like A Woman
- Stay Down
- Talk To Me
- Shake Down
- Till The Morning
- Nowhere Fast
- Roses
- Fade Away
- What Is Love
- Work In Progress (Growing Pains)
- Hurt Again
- Smoke
- Come To Me (Peace)
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Album Details: Growing Pains
- Release Date:
- 11/27/2007
- Label:
- Geffen Records
- UPC:
- 602517520301
User Reviews: Growing Pains
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ONE OF HER HOTTEST ALBUMS YET
, March 2, 2008Reviewer: Sultry - See all Sultry's reviews -
Growing pains/ just fine
, February 20, 2008Reviewer: bear - See all bear's reviewsPros: strong black woman
Cons: nothing
I am just fine has good lyrics and no matter what you go through you will be just fine because God will see you through.stand up for what you believe in.
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Pro Reviews: Growing Pains
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Eight albums into her career and comfortably settled into married life and, for the most part, herself Mary J. Blige continues to prove her versatility and strength, building off 2005's The Breakthrough, but not copying from it. Her increased selfconfidence, some of which comes from confessing her alltoohuman flaws, makes Growing Pains a mature, polished, and utterly professional set of wellcrafted songs. Blige, as always, is in great vocal form: her clear, distinctive voice carries the record with its dips and swoops and cries, but the embellishments never get in the way of melody, never replace the meaning of words with excessive vibrato or melisma. Musically, in fact, the album takes an even greater step toward pop (foreshadowed, no doubt, by the cover of U2's "One" on her previous release), with songs like "Fade Away," which borrows heavily from '80s pop, and "Talk to Me," which is informed by classic soul and uses an Emotions sample underneath the guitars and keyboards, helping to set the overall tone. Blige certainly hasn't lost her title of Queen of HipHop Soul the opening, iTunessanctioned track, "Work That," is all swagger and affirmation with a great urban beat, the Neptunesproduced "Till the Morning" is funky and warm, and "Stay Down" takes a look back at mid'90s RB with rambling lyrical lines, including a fantastic reference to The Jeffersons, but she's opened herself up to more styles here, and successfully. She has been able to do what few others before her have: cater to her crossover audience without losing the essence of what she really is and where she came from, and so all of Growing Pains, from its upbeat beginning to its reflective, personal ending (though the last track, "Come to Me [Peace]" is the only real miss on the entire album), doesn't seem forced or calculated. These are strong songs, songs that keep hooks in mind, and while Blige's lyrics can occasionally border on cheesy like on "What Love Is," for example the very sincere passion she expresses, both in her voice and her words, is enough to erase, or at least fade, the platitudes, leaving only the emotion, the doubt and the love and the insecurity and the confidence and the talent, making for a very complete and satisfying listen. - Marisa Brown, All Music Guide |
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When her debut album, What's the 411?, hit the street in 1992, critics and fans alike were floored by its powerful combination of modern RB with an edgy rap sound that glanced off of the pain and grit of Mary J. Blige's Yonkers, NY childhood. Called ...Full Mary J. Blige Biography
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Pros: STRAIGHT TALENTED THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY
Cons: NONE
THIS IS ONE OF MARY'S BEST ALBUMS I HAVE HEARD YET.DON'T GET ME WRONG ALL HER ALBUMS ARE GREAT BUT THIS IS THE BEST MAYBE ITS BECAUSE SHE HAS GRWON AS AN ARTIST BUT YOU HAVE TO GET THIS...