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Perhaps the single finest moment in Sean "Puffy" Combs' musical career has been the production on this, Mary J. Blige's second proper album. The production is not exactly original, and there is evidence here of him borrowing wholesale from other songs. The melodic sources this time around, though, are so expertly incorporated into the music that they never seem to be intrusions, instead playing like inspired dialogues with soulsters from the past, connecting past legacies with a new one. This certainly isn't your parents' (or grandparents') soul. But it is some of the finest modern soul of the '90s, backing away to a certain extent from the hip-hop/soul consolidation that Blige introduced on her debut album. The hip-hop part of the combination takes a few steps into the background, allowing Blige's tortured soul to carry the album completely, and it does so with heartwrenching authority. My Life is, from beginning to end, a brilliant, wistful individual plea of desire. Blige took a huge leap in artistry by penning almost everything herself (the major exception being Norman Whitfield's "I'm Going Down") in collaboration with co-producers Combs and multi-instrumentalist Chucky Thompson, and everything seems to leap directly from her gut. Blige's strain is sleekly modern and urban, and the grit in it comes from being streetwise and thoroughly realistic about the travails of life. My Life, nevertheless, emanates from some deep, dark place where both sadness and happiness cohabitate and turn into one single, beautiful sorrow.
© Stanton Swihart /TiVo
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Chucky Thompson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Sean "Puffy" Combs, Producer - P. Diddy, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Mary J. Blige, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chucky Thompson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Sean "Puffy" Combs, Producer - Rick James, ComposerLyricist - P. Diddy, Producer, ComposerLyricist - TONY MASERATI, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Mary J. Blige, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Joel Hailey, ComposerLyricist - Chucky Thompson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Sean "Puffy" Combs, Producer - P. Diddy, ComposerLyricist - Ekundayo Paris , ComposerLyricist - Mary J. Blige, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Nelson R. Pigford, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chucky Thompson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Sean "Puffy" Combs, Producer - P. Diddy, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Mary J. Blige, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chucky Thompson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Sean "Puffy" Combs, Producer - Carl Thompson, ComposerLyricist - Curtis Mayfield, ComposerLyricist - Sean Combs, ComposerLyricist - P. Diddy, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Mary J. Blige, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chucky Thompson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Sean "Puffy" Combs, Producer - Nashiem Myrick, Producer - Keith Murray, ComposerLyricist - P. Diddy, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Mary J. Blige, MainArtist - Nashiem Sa Allah Myrick, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chucky Thompson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Sean "Puffy" Combs, Producer - Sean Combs, ComposerLyricist - P. Diddy, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Arlene Delvalle, ComposerLyricist - Roy Ayers, ComposerLyricist - Mary J. Blige, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Herb Middleton, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Chucky Thompson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Sean "Puffy" Combs, Producer - P. Diddy, Producer, ComposerLyricist - FAITH EVANS, ComposerLyricist - Mary J. Blige, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Big Bub, ComposerLyricist - K-Ci, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Herb Middleton, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Chucky Thompson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Sean "Puffy" Combs, Producer - P. Diddy, Producer, ComposerLyricist - FAITH EVANS, ComposerLyricist - Mary J. Blige, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Big Bub, ComposerLyricist - K-Ci, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chucky Thompson, Producer - Sean "Puffy" Combs, Producer - Norman Whitfield, ComposerLyricist - Mary J. Blige, MainArtist
℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chucky Thompson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Sean "Puffy" Combs, Producer - P. Diddy, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Mary J. Blige, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Big Bub, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chucky Thompson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Sean "Puffy" Combs, Producer - P. Diddy, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Mary J. Blige, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chucky Thompson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Sean "Puffy" Combs, Producer - P. Diddy, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Mary J. Blige, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Teddy Riley, ComposerLyricist - Chucky Thompson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Sean "Puffy" Combs, Producer - Aaron Hall, ComposerLyricist - GENE GRIFFIN, ComposerLyricist - Timothy Gatling, ComposerLyricist - P. Diddy, Producer, ComposerLyricist - FAITH EVANS, ComposerLyricist - Mary J. Blige, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Big Bub, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chucky Thompson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Sean "Puffy" Combs, Producer - P. Diddy, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Mary J. Blige, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Al Green, Composer - Mary J. Blige, MainArtist - K-Ci, ComposerLyricist - Mr. Dalvin, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sean "Puffy" Combs, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Prince Charles Alexander, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - TONY MASERATI, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Arlene Delvalle, ComposerLyricist - Mary J. Blige, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Poke, Producer - Jean C Olivier, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jerry Wexler, ComposerLyricist - Carole King, ComposerLyricist - Gerry Goffin, ComposerLyricist - Mary J. Blige, MainArtist - James Mtume, Producer
℗ 1995 Geffen Records
Album review
Perhaps the single finest moment in Sean "Puffy" Combs' musical career has been the production on this, Mary J. Blige's second proper album. The production is not exactly original, and there is evidence here of him borrowing wholesale from other songs. The melodic sources this time around, though, are so expertly incorporated into the music that they never seem to be intrusions, instead playing like inspired dialogues with soulsters from the past, connecting past legacies with a new one. This certainly isn't your parents' (or grandparents') soul. But it is some of the finest modern soul of the '90s, backing away to a certain extent from the hip-hop/soul consolidation that Blige introduced on her debut album. The hip-hop part of the combination takes a few steps into the background, allowing Blige's tortured soul to carry the album completely, and it does so with heartwrenching authority. My Life is, from beginning to end, a brilliant, wistful individual plea of desire. Blige took a huge leap in artistry by penning almost everything herself (the major exception being Norman Whitfield's "I'm Going Down") in collaboration with co-producers Combs and multi-instrumentalist Chucky Thompson, and everything seems to leap directly from her gut. Blige's strain is sleekly modern and urban, and the grit in it comes from being streetwise and thoroughly realistic about the travails of life. My Life, nevertheless, emanates from some deep, dark place where both sadness and happiness cohabitate and turn into one single, beautiful sorrow.
© Stanton Swihart /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 18 track(s)
- Total length: 01:07:50
- Main artists: Mary J. Blige
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Geffen*
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 1995 Geffen Records ℗ 1995 Geffen Records
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