{"product_id":"mary-j-blige-growing-pains-cd-used","title":"Mary J. Blige \/ Growing Pains - CD (Used)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary J. Blige\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeatures:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eBLIGE MARY J. GROWING PAINS\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Remixes included\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 18-12-2007\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Amazon.ca      \"I'm talkin' 'bout things I know,\" Mary J. Blige wails on \"Work That,\" the second single and opening track of Growing Pains. The album squeaked into 2007 too late to make best-of lists but otherwise would have stormed its way up several, for sure. She needn't have hit us with such a pronouncement: In 16 songs that ring as remarkably, unflinchingly true as those on 2005's landmark The Breakthrough, the queen of hip-hop soul keeps \"keeping it real\" a specialty. There's no sense in trying to assign credit for the skin-tight grooves and funked-up retro vibe here; with nine producers padding Blige's emotion-rich voice and the lyrics she so obviously lives by, what we're left with is a melange of sounds. But it's a measure of an artist who has mastered her own identity and left nothing to chance that this, her eighth studio album, comes off so free of wild cards and loose edges. \"You ask what love feels like,\" she sings on \"What Love Is,\" one of the disc's less fierce tracks. \"It feels like joy, and it feels like pain, and it feels like sunshine, and it feels like rain,\" she continues, answering the question. The album feels the same way, a passel of complex feelings all wrapped up in love. No one knows struggle, heartache, and triumph over mediocrity like Blige. --Tammy La Gorce      Product Description      2007 album from the six-time Grammy Award winning R\u0026amp;B diva with production by Timbaland (Aaliyah, Missy Elliott, Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, Nelly Furtado), Stargate (Ne-Yo, Rihanna, Beyonce), Jazze Pha (Ciara, Ludacris, T.I., Lil' Wayne), Tricky Stewart (J. Holiday, Tyrese) and others. Songs written by Mary J Blige, Ne-Yo, Sean Garrett (Usher, Ciara, Chris Brown) and The Dream (Sting, Rihanna, Featuring the first single 'Just Fine'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUPC:\u003c\/b\u003e 602517520301\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 0602517520301\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e German\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Audio CD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eItem Condition:\u003c\/b\u003e UsedVeryGood\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ID Shop.ca","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51460620976425,"sku":"JE-VTQE-52Q2","price":5.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0747\/6225\/6681\/files\/41ooBdDKs3L.jpg?v=1762032084","url":"https:\/\/konnichiwa.ca\/products\/mary-j-blige-growing-pains-cd-used","provider":"こんにちはマート | KON NICHIWA MART","version":"1.0","type":"link"}