![]() In order to get the right man, we gotta become the right woman to ourselves. The ones still stuck in misery, I want to let them understand everything is work and let's go work for it. And there's a lot of women who have grown up with me and a lot who have not grown and are still stuck in misery. "I've always done love songs but my biggest records were me being miserable. So what makes the song so powerful, people are thinking, 'God, I wish I had that.' It's like that relationship that everybody wishes they could have - it's a perfect relationship. " 'Be Without You' is a ballad that was produced by Johnta and Brian Michael Cox," the singer said. Mary is hoping some of her fans will be able to follow her evolution on the new single. They know when I'm for real and they know when I'm being pushed for something else." Don't do that? OK.' Turns out, that little feeling you get inside of you saying, 'Don't do it' - I didn't listen to it. Don't do this, don't do that.' I'm thinking, 'Oh, OK. "I wasn't being honest because I had record company people in my life saying, 'No, don't sing with that much emotion. "When we put the Love & Life album out, it was a dessert, because I don't believe I was being as honest with my fans as I normally am," the Queen said. On that note, Mary said the main pitfall of her last LP, 2003's Love & Life, was that she didn't stay true to herself or the fans. This is about making a choice to survive." Blige not being what everybody else wanted her to be," she continued. People are always gonna have something to say. As a human being, no matter how cool you are, you still are goofy sometimes, you still are corny sometimes and don't care what people say about it. "Going to a place where people are gonna talk about us. " The Breakthrough is about getting to or going to a place where we fear the most," she explained. ![]() The 14-track album features songs produced by Brian Michael Cox, Rodney Jerkins, the Black Eyed Peas' Will I Am, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Dre & Vidal, Johnta Austin, Raphael Saadiq and others, and like most of her albums, it has a unifying theme. It's almost there but we want it to be perfect."Īpparently, perfection was attained sooner than expected. "We're getting The Breakthrough to the point where it's unbreakable and it's bulletproof. " The Breakthrough is coming in February or March," Mary said in New York late last month. The song was slated to be the first single from Reminisce and has been moved over to The Breakthrough, along with the other three new tracks, "Can't Hide From Love," "MJB Da MVP" (which features Mary's vocal over the Game's "Hate It or Love It") and a duet with Bono on U2's "One." MJB is still carrying on with plans to shoot a video for "Be Without You" in Los Angeles Tuesday (November 8), the plot of which she said centers around a woman learning to love herself. A label source said the new LP was turning out so well that all parties agreed to get it in stores as soon as possible, and on Tuesday in Los Angeles, Mary said, "I'm glad is coming out and the other album is coming later." Now, plans for the greatest-hits set have been put on hold, and The Breakthrough is slated for release on December 20. Then the Reminisce release date was moved to December 6. Then she bumped it to 2006 and announced that she'd be dropping Reminisce, a greatest-hits LP containing four new songs, on November 22. Blige Gets Over Herself With The Breakthrough"). The Breakthrough was originally scheduled to come out this month (see "Mary J. ![]() Blige's seventh studio album has had as much drama as one of her songs.
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