
Growing Pains
Album • Jan 01 / 2007 • 16 songs, 1h 5m 1s
Contemporary R&B
Noteable
B
Mary J. Blige has returned after 2005's triumphant The Breakthrough like a superstar athlete coming off a championship season: She's looking hard for some motivational adversity to stay on top. On Growing Pains, Blige finds it by reaching beyond the relative stability of her personal life and playing up the vulnerable…
It’s hard to get beyond the very title of Mary J. Blige’s eighth overstuffed collection of affirmations, self-definitions, and keepin’-it-real-isms.