If you’ve ever seen Mary live, then you know the sheer power that she brings to every performance. She could always make you feel something. It was whether she could make you feel something. With Mary, though, the whole point was never whether she could sing notes perfectly. Blige’s singing voice, which was never as clean or virtuosic as some. Other R&B singers have made sideways statements about Mary J. Blige had a hard childhood, a hard adolescence, and a hard adulthood. People knew Mary’s backstory, but if you didn’t, you could still hear the drama every time she opened her throat and howled.
If you didn’t know anything else about Mary, you still knew that. In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
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