What's so fantastic about Mary J. Blige?

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eventually the polluted river had to give him up, i suppose

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Friday, 16 February 2007 01:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Like a cockroach crawlin' on a white rug.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 February 2007 01:18 (seventeen years ago) link

That one-two punch of WTF is pretty impressive, tho.

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Friday, 16 February 2007 02:45 (seventeen years ago) link

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― The Many Faces of Gordon Jump (Leon), Friday, 16 February 2007 03:21 (seventeen years ago) link

She's a great singer because she forces you to ignore the awfulness of the therapeutic clichés in which she invests so much.

Change "ignore" to "buy into" and you've explained the appeal of maybe like 95 percent of R&B vocalists worth listening to of at least the last 30 years (and maybe forever).

I think what Mary does is the very opposite of forcing you to ignore. That's coming from within, dude.

― Richj (Richj), Friday, 16 February 2007 06:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, there's not much point to her *without* that stuff. That's like saying you dig Johnny Rotten except for all his champing at the leash, or George Jones except for the woe.

― cynical and vile (Factory Sample Not For Sale), Friday, 16 February 2007 08:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, c'mon, Blige's therapy-speak was less marked in the early/mid-nineties! (and George Jones is a lot funnier than Mary, but the comparison's not fair for either of them)

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I was just dropping some shorthand.

― cynical and vile (Factory Sample Not For Sale), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:28 (seventeen years ago) link

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