Mary J. Blige debuts her new single entitled “Whole Damn Near “ this week and we’ve deemed it PLUM certified. The single was co-penned by U.K songstress [my fav] Emeli Sande and produced by Disclosure.
The singer is gearing up to release her album ‘London Sessions’. In the record Mary sings:
” I’m A Mess, Underneath,…..Summer Came Looking For Love, And By Autumn I Was Left With Nothing, It Took A Whole Damn Year To Repair My Body, Took A WholeDamn Year It’s Been A Bad Five Years”
On The Song Whole Damn Year:
” The song is about that woman at work everyday, smiling all the time but she she’s going through it. Everybody thinks she’s good but she’s not , but she’s in recovery and repairing herself and her body. “
On The New Album ‘The London Sessions’:
” London was the inspiration is because of the record we did with expit exploded in London and when we did terminal 5 the response was ridiculous and it started responding well over her [U.S] . ”
” The idea was to do an ‘EP’ with full disclosure and I just signed with a new label and we met with Steve Barnett who is the head of Capital Records and he said forget the EP, let’s do an album and here we are. “
Mary J. Blige says she spent the entire summer overseas, and worked with new and upcoming producers for the new album.
On Her New Direction Of Music:
” I’ve stepped out with Bono, Sting, & Elton John so I’ve been out but everyone is still trying to box me in. Just to grow, I needed that experience. “
On Her Fans Reaction:
” I won’t say everybody Alot of people who would have rather that I stayed messed up and sad because that’s where they were. But when your grow your going to lose some people “
Listen to her full interview with New York’s Power 105.1 The Breakfast Club show below as Mary talks about the popular music today, who she listens to, the crispy chicken commercial controversy, and her upcoming projects: