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| Length = | Label = Uptown | Producer = Sean "Puffy" Combs (Executive), The Hitmen (Chucky Thompson & Lyndell Fraser, Mr. Dalvin | Last album = ''What's the 411? Remix'' (1993) | This album = ''My Life'' (1994) | Next album = ''Share My World'' (1997) | Misc = }} ''My Life'' is the second studio album by American R&B recording artist Mary J. Blige, released on November 29, 1994, by Uptown Records.〔 Many of the topics on ''My Life'' deal with clinical depression, Blige's battling with both drugs and alcohol, as well as being in an abusive relationship. Similar to her debut album ''What's the 411?'', ''My Life'' features vast production from Sean Combs aka Puff Daddy, who provided a hip hop soul sound. Considered to be her breakthrough album, ''My Life'' became Mary J. Blige's second album to reach the top ten of the ''Billboard'' 200 charts, peaking at number seven, and debuting at number one on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart for eight weeks. In 1995, the album was nominated for Best R&B Album at the 38th Grammy Awards, while in December of the same year, the album was certified 3x Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, for shipments of three million copies in the United States. It also won the 1995 Billboard Music Award for Top R&B Album. In 2002, ''Blender'' ranked ''My Life'' number 57 on their 100 greatest American albums of all-time list,〔Columnist. (''My Life'' Accolades ). acclaimedmusic.net. Retrieved on 2010-03-13.〕 in 2003, the album was ranked number 279 on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's the 500 greatest albums of all time,〔Columnist. (The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time ). ''Rolling Stone''. Retrieved on 2010-03-13.〕 and in 2006, it was included in ''Times 100 greatest albums of all-time list.〔Columnist. (Time's All-TIME 100 Albums ). ''Time''. Retrieved on 2010-03-13.〕 ==Background== Following the success of her debut album, ''What's the 411?'', and a remixed version in 1993, Blige went into the recording studio in the winter of 1993 to record her second album, ''My Life''. Producer Chucky Thompson was brought in and had originally been contracted to produce one song and an interlude for the project.〔 He ended up being a last minute replacement as the producers Blige worked with previously on ''What's the 411?'' demanded more money when the album was certified triple platinum.〔 Blige loved the one song Thompson produced for her, which made Combs change the direction of the album.〔 The album was a breakthrough for Blige, who at this point was in a clinical depression, battling both drugs and alcohol- as well as being in an abusive relationship with K-Ci Hailey- which was reported in several tabloids. In this period, Blige would once again dominate the charts with her singles: the Top 40 hit "Be Happy", a cover version of Rose Royce's 1977 hit "I'm Goin' Down", and "Mary Jane (All Night Long)", a pastiche of the Mary Jane Girls' "All Night Long", Rick James's "Mary Jane", and Teddy Pendergrass's hit "Close the Door". The album uses primary soul samples from R&B musicians such as Curtis Mayfield, Roy Ayers, Al Green, Teddy Pendergrass, Marvin Gaye, Barry White, Rick James, and his protégés, the Mary Jane Girls. Other memorable songs include a cover version of Carole King's hit single "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "You Bring Me Joy" (which samples "It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next To Me" by Barry White) and "My Life," alongside an official remix version of the song "Be With You", which features Lauryn Hill rapping on the introduction and closing verses. (In 1998, Lauryn Hill would duet with Blige on the hip hop soul ballad "I Used to Love Him" on Hill's album ''The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill''.) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「My Life (Mary J. Blige album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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