It’s no secret Mary J. Blige portrays her life, good and bad, in her songs.
“When life is real it’s not going to be smooth,” the Queen of Hip-Hop/Soul said onstage at the New York Time’s Times Talks event on Monday (Nov. 28) in NYC. “I was just singing from my life, singing through my experiences, singing through the hurt and the pain in order to survive,” Blige said.
Blige finds it important to relate to her music, she told New York Times music critic Jon Pareles during the onstage interview.
“It has to be relative to the audience and you have to have dealt with something,” she said. “I can’t just make a song people can dance in a club to… it still has to be real.”
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