{"id":4191,"date":"2022-03-01T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.streamapse.com\/?p=4191"},"modified":"2022-03-01T01:00:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T06:00:16","slug":"mary-j-blige-the-legendary-singer-returns-with-her-14th-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=4191","title":{"rendered":"Mary J. Blige – The Legendary Singer Returns With Her 14th Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

The centerpiece and title track of Mary J. Blige\u2019s 14th album is an emotional display of self-love\u2014the kind of song that, after three decades of heartbreak anthems, feels like the soft landing spot she\u2019s been searching for this entire time. \u201cAll the times that I hated myself, all the times that I wanted to be someone else, all the times that I should\u2019ve been gentle with me,\u201d she sings in the second verse. \u201cI wake up every morning and tell myself, \u2018Good morning gorgeous.\u2019\u201d Across the album, her voice sounds just as convincing as it has all these years, contoured in soul and grit. Her lyrics, though, beautifully reflect her life experiences, evolved and brimming with wisdom.<\/p>\n

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There are no histrionics to be found here; she knows what she wants and will put up with nothing less. On songs like \u201cLove Without the Heartbreak\u201d (\u201cI\u2019m so got\u2019damn sick of the pain,\u201d she cries on the hook) and \u201cEnough\u201d (\u201cYou can\u2019t see what you got at home, you dead wrong not to fight for it,\u201d goes that chorus), she sounds genuinely fed up, far from the wounded defeat of those beloved earlier releases. It\u2019s no small feat to have a career and catalog as long and storied as Mary J.\u2019s, and here she reveals some of the secret. Her brand of R&B is uniquely hers, ebbing and flowing with the waves of her own life; here, her take on love feels honest and lived-in without the pretense of autobiography. Good Morning Gorgeous stands up as not just a possible blueprint for artistic longevity, but also a model for how to love yourself even when others have failed to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The centerpiece and title track of Mary J. Blige\u2019s 14th album is an emotional display of self-love\u2014the kind of song that, after three decades of heartbreak anthems, feels like the soft landing spot she\u2019s been searching for this entire time. \u201cAll the times that I hated myself, all the times that I wanted to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[86,568,766,322,75],"class_list":["post-4191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-new-music","tag-album","tag-blige","tag-legendary","tag-returns","tag-singer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}