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SEAN
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MARY J.
BLIGE - NEW ALBUM
GROWING
PAINS
Geffen
Records superstar and hit-making songwriter Mary J. Blige, is
set to follow-up the most successful album of her career, the
triple platinum The Breakthrough, with her eighth
(8th) studio CD Growing Pains on Tuesday, December
18th, one week before
Christmas.
Growing
Pains
includes her top ten single “Just Fine” which
has become an instant favorite on radio enjoyed by over 20
million listeners. “Just Fine” is in heavy rotation on MTV,
BET and VH-1, and Mary recently shot the video for her second
single, “Work That,”
which is currently featured in an Apple iPod
commercial.
After
selling over 40 million
CDs and garnering six Grammy Awards during her
phenomenal 15-year career, Mary is confident
that her fans will not be disappointed with Growing Pains.
“They’re going to get a sense of what my state of mind is and
how I view the world,” she says. “And hopefully, most of all,
they’re going to hear just the sincere honesty and love that I
have for them.” She adds, “Growing Pains represents accepting
that there’s pain that goes along with growing and change. No
pain, no gain.”
Growing
Pains,
with Mary co-writing
most of the songs on the album, features guest appearances by
Ludacris and
Usher and production by The Neptunes,
Jazze Pha, Johnta
Austin, Neyo, Stargate,
Bryan-Michael Cox, Dre and Vidal, Tricky, Dream, and
Sean Garrett.
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Mary
makes her message loud, clear and seriously funky on the first
release “Just
Fine” produced by Jazze Pha and Tricky and
co-written by Mary and Dream. A celebration of life,
“Just Fine” gives you Mary fierce, and as the video shows,
glamorous. The song’s vibe? “Sometimes it feels like you’re
having this miserable time, like all 365 days of the year are
tough. But then, you get one of those days; maybe when your
hair is great, or you’re not stuck in traffic; where it’s a
‘just fine’ day. At some point,” Mary laughs, “You’ve
got have one or two of those.”
The
party and positivity keeps on keeping on with the rump shaking
second single “Work
That.” Mary comments, “When I meet a
woman who doesn’t know what to do about her weight or her hair
I always say – ‘whatever it is that you have, make that work
for you, Work what you got.’”
After
releasing her bestselling anthology Reflections last year,
Growing
Pains is Mary’s first CD of
new material since The Breakthrough debuted at #1 in 2005,
selling over 700,000 copies its first week -- the best opening week for a solo
R&B female artist in SoundScan history.
The album’s first single, “Be Without You,” also made chart
history by holding down the #1 spot on the Billboard
R&B charts for a record breaking 16 straight
weeks; making it the longest-running No.
1 song on the R&B chart in over 40 years.
Mary led all artists with eight 2007 Grammy nominations for
the landmark album, and she took home honors for Best
Female R&B Vocal Performance, Best R&B Song (both for
"Be Without You"), and Best R&B Album. After
earning three Grammy Awards, she continued her award show
domination by winning nine Billboard Music Awards, two
American Music Awards, two BET Awards, two NAACP Image Awards,
and a Soul Train Award. The
Breakthrough lived up to its name selling over seven million
copies worldwide.
Mary
will also bring in 2008 on New Year’s Eve on MTV. |
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