![]() The song samples the Mary Jane Girls' 'All Night Long', Rick James's 'Mary Jane', and Teddy Pendergrass's classic single 'Close the Door'. Blige, taken from her second album, My Life. With Share My World, Blige definitely arrived. 'Mary Jane (All Night Long)' is a 1995 single by American singer-songwriter Mary J. Kelly (with whom she duets on the inviting "It's On") and Babyface to Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis doesn't come across as forced or robotic, but, in fact, is impressively organic. ![]() Although high tech, the production of everyone from R. But Blige did show promise, and by the time she recorded her third album, Share My World, she had developed. When What's the 411 was released in 1992, she was exalted as 'the new Chaka Khan '- a definite exaggeration, considering how uneven that debut album was. ![]() For all their slickness, emotive cuts like "Get to Know You Better," "Love Is All We Need," and "Keep Your Head" left no doubt that Blige was indeed a singer of depth and substance. Blige in the beginning was simply ridiculous. ![]() Her strongest and most confident effort up to that point, Share had much more character, personality, and honesty than most of the assembly line fare dominating urban radio in 1997. But Blige did show promise, and by the time she recorded her third album, Share My World, she had developed into a fairly convincing soul/urban singer. ![]() When What's the 411? was released in 1992, she was exalted as "the new Chaka Khan"- a definite exaggeration, considering how uneven that debut album was. Blige in the beginning was simply ridiculous. ![]()
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