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Although the hey!s, haw!s, oh!s and groans in the first song remind you of two people in their seventies having sex, the album works relatively well – but rather as an EP… and not as a Mary J Blige EP.
The best musical moment in the first half of the album can be listened to in the preview: “…that you can’t find nowhere else”. So much for soul. The rest of the first 2/3 is mostly poppish, musically uninspired or uninspiring.
I have high expectations of Mary because I consider her one of the absolute best singers out there now… so imagine my disappointment hearing a row of songs swatted by the most terrible Akon-esque dead shouts into an echo-nothingness, the plastic, flat songwriting, the fake clap effects… The echo effects drive me up the wall anyways, they don’t mean anything and do not compensate for the lack of real melodies that I love Mary so much for.
She’s in good form vocally. And overall, the album is solid.
What makes this album so strange is that Mary is, somehow, not present. There are moments when you find yourself forgetting she’s there, that it’s her album. All kinds of half-human noises, auto-tune, unmotivated shouts, steely space effects drag the songs on or distract them, pop clichés rule the first half like most of Growing pains. There are moments Mary’s voice sounds as if coming from inside a scaphander. “The one” is so catchy but where’s the flesh & blood? Listening to this album and Growing pains, I feel her incredibly great voice is being wasted on some awkward and lackluster euro-pop or Ciara melodrama imitation that is about “how many words can you yelp on the same note in a row?” Where is the spirit, the funk, the raw soul, the musicality, where are the goosebumps?
And why oh why do you, the indisputable greatest singer in the whole scene, have to resort to 20some r&b chick jodeln? There is a wagon of those and we know their style. Mary, you’re incomparable and you deserve and are capable of 100 times more than this syrupy pseudo-house Ne-yo and whatever-kind-of mess.
But there are a few painfully awesome moments, harmonies, melodies, atmosphere, vocals. Half of these are like left halfway, unexploited. The other half is worthy of any of her earlier songs.
Thank God for “I can see in color”, “I can do bad by myself” and the Bocelli duet that make me sure she hasn’t lost it but she’s just holding it back and in a strange phase. She could be greater than ever. Maybe next time.
Rating: 3 / 5
This is by far Marys worst album (after “Love & Life”). This album doesn’t sound like the Mary we know and love. Someone please tell me why they didn’t put the best song from the album on here? Stronger is a powerful and amazing song. I gave the album 3 stars only because of certain songs.
Songs that are good are:
“The One”
“Good Love”
“I Feel Good”
“I Am”
“Each Tear”
The worst songs are as follows:
“Tonight”
“Said And Done”
“I Love U (Yes I Du)”
“Hood Love”
“Kitchen”
“In The Morning”
“I Can See In Color”
Rating: 3 / 5
As always, Mary puts it down and it is stronger then ever.. How in the hell does she continue to do it year in and year out.. Must get..
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a very uplifting album. It is like a breath of fresh air. I don’t have skip any tracks and the whole album flows together. Excellent.
Rating: 5 / 5
Everyone needs to listen to IN THE MORNING…. MARY IS THE QUEEN
OVERALL – GOOD ALBUM
GREAT PRODUCTION.. AND MARY SINGS FROM THE HEART.. GOTTA LOVE HER!
Rating: 4 / 5