
- Summary: The eighth album for the R&B singer was produced with help from The-Dream, Ne-Yo, Stargate, Dre & Vidal, and Timbaland.
- Record Label: Geffen
- Genre(s): R&B
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Top Track
Just Fine | |
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You know I love music And every time I hear something hot It makes me wanna move It makes me wanna have fun But it's something about this joint right... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 17
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Mixed: 3 out of 17
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Negative: 0 out of 17
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Busta Rhymes and Ludacris get her back to where she once belonged for the duration of their openers. After that, it's an expensive, honorable, credible sampler of the hottest current R&B brands.
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The various producers behind this all pull their weight, but as usual the star is Blige’s husky voice and that charming mix of vulnerability and over-the-top diva confidence.
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She has been able to do what few others before her have: cater to her crossover audience without losing the essence of what she really is and where she came from, and so all of Growing Pains, from its upbeat beginning to its reflective, personal ending (though the last track, 'Come to Me [Peace]' is the only real miss on the entire album), doesn't seem forced or calculated.
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Growing Pains finds Blige on chirpier form.
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Growing Pains is an edgier record than "The Breakthrough," but Blige has definitely lost or just outgrown the brassy urgency of her twenties.
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Growing Pains could use more of this insouciance, or another song that harnessed all her gifts as well as Breakthrough's "Be Without You" did. Confusing confessions with wisdom, Blige would be more fun if she'd shut up for a while and luxuriate.
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Although there are numerous pointers as to what might have been, had Mary retained greater creative focus, there is precious little to savour here.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 12
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Mixed: 1 out of 12
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Negative: 0 out of 12
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KennyH.Dec 20, 2007
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AntoinewDec 21, 2007
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[Anonymous]Jan 4, 2008
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FezFeb 18, 2008This is the best, let Alicia have a rest with her album with 4 hits, this CD has all the hits to rptate the radio in 2008.
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DillonH.Mar 4, 2008excellent album. but on track 2 she sounds constipated. other than that great grl
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PACMusicDec 24, 2007Growing Pains
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