Through interviews with family members, friends, admirers, and those who helped her shape this album, the doc goes song by song through the project and turns into an in-depth look at the crafting of music that is both deeply personal and speaks to the millions who have gone through similar experiences. Image courtesy of Amazon PrimeĪlthough My Life was her second album (after the equally influential What’s the 411?, which broke ground on a sonic level by blending hip-hop and soul music in new ways), Blige pushed herself to hit new levels of honesty for this record, by discussing her childhood and adult battles with sexual abuse, depression, and addiction, as well as the resulting physical and emotional trauma from growing up in a New York housing project. Less a life/career-spanning documentary biopic and more focusing on the work of art that set the stage for the career that followed, director Vanessa Roth’s Mary J Blige’s My Life narrows its scope on the life moments and musical choices that led to the creation of one of the great confessional albums of all time, 1994’s My Life by Mary J Blige, which we see the singer celebrate at a 25th anniversary event, during which she performs the album live in its entirety.
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