This is the 1st single from Mary's new album, "Growing Pains", to be release Nov. 20th.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...-cl9mhSLQY

i like it

I didn't really listen to her last CD all that much.

What was the consensus on that? Do I just not care anymore?

I thought the remake of "One" was pretty atrocious.

I heard this the other day and couldn’t believe it was her.

i think i know what that snare is from

Tricky Stewart is tagged on this video like he might have produced the song, and I heard Mary passed on Tricky's other banger "Umbrella" (I'm sure you've heard of it )

Cinnie said:

Oh no, is it a sample?

JackieBlue said:

Don't sound like it is (but the sound is '80s so anything's possible). I hope it's not. I dig it either way though.

One thing for sure it's not an obvious sample as Janet's "All for You" was, LOL!

Timmy84 said:

Well, Mary is famous for singing over samples so I don't know why you would be surprised

BUT I was only referring to the snare drum sound

I really like the song, but it does sound like it uses a sample. I just can't put my finger on it.

Cinnie said:

No I'm not surprised if it's a sample. Oh you were talking about the snare drum beat? Nevermind, lol. Sounds like an original song all the way through to me though.

haha her spoken intro to me sounds like she's going to start telling us about

the benefits of drinking milk or something

Cinnie said:

The intro reminded me of "Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough":

"The force, it makes me wanna, it makes me wanna... OOH!"
"This joint right here, this joint right here, it makes me wanna... OOH!"

Nothing has changed in the last 28 years.

This song got Janet Jackson's style written ALL over, it would've been a good comeback song for her.

what i don't get though about Mary is that as of late she's been coming cross real happy and radiant, and even singin' about it, like in this song, so why Growing Pains for an album title?

PricelessHo said:

I don't like the title either. Thing is, she been rehashing the same statement since No More Drama.

Harlepolis said:

Totally Janet....I like the song..I like Mary....

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VANITYSprisonBYTCH said:

OK I thought this too when I first heard it and saw the same comment on the okayplayer board

I thought I just had Janet on the brain

Harlepolis said:

sometimes i wonder if she fears she'd lose an authentic part of her had she given up the dramatic approach, esp. that it's what seems to have drawn a really massive fan base to her. 'Cause they found someone very humanlike they could relate to?

It's kinda like how Alanis had sunk commercially after doing mellow/love songs (i.e. the song Everything)

Cinnie said:

Yeah it's really a Janet-styled song.

Timmy84 said:

the verses remind me a bit of the static melody of "Show Me"

Timmy84 said:

The beginning reminds me of MJ's "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough" as well. Defenitely sounds OTW influenced. Nice song though, I like it.

I heard this on the radio this morning and I was loving it! It didn't sound like anything she had ever done before. I couldn't even tell it was Mary at first.

Only thing I didn't like was that growl at the end

This song is CLASSIC. I'm wanting to dance around in my cubicle right now, but that wouldn't be right.

the keyboard line sounds like its from "Peg" by Steely Dan.

When I heard this.. I just Rolled My eyes.. Janet Should have Recorded this..

.instead of that garbage that she released on her last album...

Blige Feeling 'Fine' On New Single, Album

Link

Sep 27, 2008
Billboard.com

Mary J. Blige has unveiled "Just Fine," the first single from her upcoming Geffen album, "Growing Pains." Produced by Christopher "Tricky" Stewart and Jazze Pha, the uptempo track comes ahead of the Nov. 27 release of "Growing Pains," the follow-up to 2005's acclaimed "The Breakthrough."

Little other information about the new album has yet been announced beyond contributions from Sean Garrett, Rodney Jerkins and Bryan-Michael Cox, who won a Grammy Award for co-writing Blige's hit "Be Without You."

That was one of several smashes from "The Breakthrough," which has shifted 2.96 million units in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.


A week after "Growing Pains" arrives, Blige will be heard guesting on Wyclef Jean's new album, "Carnival II: Memoirs of an Immigrant," which is due Dec. 4 via Columbia.

Scorpion said:

I like it!

a little bit of mj? isnt?

Cinnie said:

You should go listen to it again. I think it's her best since Mary.