Mary J. Blige - My Life II... The Journey Continues (Act 1)
Has anybody got a chance to pick up a copy. Fantastic album in my opinion. Has a real 90s feel to it and goes all the way back to Marys days when she began music. It's a follow up to her 1994 album 'My Life':D
Stand out tracks - Mr Wrong (feat. Drake), 25/8, Love a Woman (feat. Beyonce), Midnight Drive, Empty Prayer.
It's a shame that 'My Life' got to #2 in UK and this is sitting at #29 on itunes, but I put that down to her fanbase not being as strong as in the states and lack of UK promotion. I want Mary back in the UK performing hard
Stand out tracks - Mr Wrong (feat. Drake), 25/8, Love a Woman (feat. Beyonce), Midnight Drive, Empty Prayer.
It's a shame that 'My Life' got to #2 in UK and this is sitting at #29 on itunes, but I put that down to her fanbase not being as strong as in the states and lack of UK promotion. I want Mary back in the UK performing hard
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She seemed to really enjoy herself as well.
In fact, after her appearance I dug out my copy of 'The Breakthrough' album. Bloody good it is too.
Mary was great on Chatty Man, she has a great sense of humour
I would love to see her perform on X Factor or possibly Strictly. But it doesn't look likely
I even got a tweet from the lady herself yesterday, was so unbelievably happy
I think Mary will definitely be back in the UK next year.
:O The Queen actually tweeted you, damn lucky you:eek: Though I like that Mary connects with her fans through twitter. I'm glad I'm not the only one loving her album, it's a fantastic piece of work. Hopefully she can grab herself a few more grammys next year
Unfortunely, in the US Rihanna will probably get #1 but we all know Mary been holding her genre for nearly 20 years
I know, I was so shocked! My husband was in fits laughing at me, I kept sayin' 'Oh my God' over and over again before bursting into tears ha ha! Made my day I can tell you.
Rihanna is everywhere at the moment, a case of overload for me. Mary is pure class, enough said. What are your standout tracks from My Life II?
Pretty much all of them
25/8 is amazing, from the get-go. Then When I heard Mr Wrong I wasn't feeling it, I thought it was similiar to Motivation by kelly Rowland but after more listens I love it. Also love 'Need Someone, 'Empty Prayers' 'Love a Woman' 'Midnight Drive' and then the bonus of 'Someone To Love Me' is very good. She never strays from her hip-hop/soul which is what I like.
It's true Mary is pure class. What are your stand-outs?
Is it bad I keep my focus on Itunes to see if she keeps moving up:o I just hate when artists don't get success they deserve
I absolutely adored the song 'Someone To Love Me (Naked)' that she did a video for a while ago, I love that song. So this album was always going to be something special.
Mine are 'Mr Wrong', 'Feel Inside', 'Midnight Drive', 'Love a Woman', 'Empty Prayers', 'Need Someone' and 'One Life'....in fact I just love the whole album!! 'You Want This' reminds me of MJ's Baby be Mine/Thriller era, so I'm likin that too.
I hope she does well, we need her back in the UK on tour
Agree
Feel Inside and Next level are fire, I was blown away by Empty Prayers, and I was dubious when i first heard she'd covered Ain't Nobody but she did a great job. The production is stellar.
True true, the only thing is Rihanna is EVERYWHERE at the moment. She is to say the least 'molesting' the charts with music:eek: (Not shading, I like me some Rihanna) But her songs do really well and I think this will be Rihanna's first #1 But Mary will have competition from Rihanna, Nickelback, Buble and possibly Daughtry. I felt as though Stronger With EachTear ended quite abruptly, I hope Mary churns out this album and gathers a lot of sales
And I agree about 'Stronger with each tear'.It wasn't a proper era and the new album deserves more singles :cool:
Sounds more like the Mary J of old, the past 5 years or so her material hasnt been that great imo. but thats probably because she set the bar so high with her previous albums.
My fave Mary album is her third share my world
http://thatgrapejuice.net/2011/11/rihanna-mary-blige-sales-predictions/#comment-1009802
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25/8 is my fave track..midnight drive second
:(Damn my instincts were right. I'm quite surprised that Daughtry are outselling Mary (though in saying that there album is good). A top 3 debut would still be good though. I would love to see Mary unexpectantly pull in more sales this week, I hope she has some pretty good promotion going on.
But people aren't warming to it here or in the US.
Feel bad for her.