

It’s a drive reflected in the disc’s organizational flow, which begins with the hardest tracks and works its way down in BPM, dynamics, and overall production. If that’s the case, My Life II…The Journey Continues (Act 1) feels like a corrective, one which intends to restore soul back to prominence. It might feel lately as though hip-hop has all but devoured R&B, just as the cover art for Blige’s sequel/continuation/chapter has apparently swallowed the “Jane” from her “Mary.” Not that they were ever truly divergent fields, but My Life certainly made it feel like the two genres were falling in love for the first time. Blige’s latest installment of bass-heavy therapy (which feels like the cataloguing equivalent of her ever-present melisma), it takes a lot of salt to, decades after the fact, record a sequel to what is widely considered one of the most groundbreaking R&B albums of the 1990s, one which helped foster the merging of hip-hop and soul. It does not store any personal data.Even looking beyond the three-tiered title of Mary J. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies.

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