This film does a huge disservice to her image and the strenght she possessed to stay upright after all that has happened. A terrible lame product which mocks the term documentary, more like a product of her PR team and created to be 'appropriate' for 'ages from 5 to 95' with no bad words, no portrayals of how bad her life actually got, no truth or what it took for her character to be forged. Pathetic shallow money product to put on shelves for fans of any age to buy while buying a T-shirt and a mug with her name on it.Īs 'Mary J. Blige's My Life' (2021 release 82 min.) opens, we are reminded of Blige's many accomplishments, including 9 Grammys and 50 million records sold worldwide. 'I've done pretty much all I've wanted to do' Blige comments. We then go back in time, to her upbringing in 'the projects' in New York, where life was tough, and her heroes were people like Aretha Franklin. Blige had a good voice, and at one point a demo comes to the attention of a producer.

'The demo shows the pain of a generation', he observes, and before we know it, Blige has recorded her 1992 debut album 'What's the 411?' and then a few years later comes 'My Life'. Couple of comments: this documentary is the latest from director by Vanessa Roth (who won an Oscar for the 2007 short documentary 'Freeheld'). Blige's 1994 album 'My Life' meant for Blige. This is touted as the 25th anniversary of that album, and perhaps this was filmed in 2019, the actual 25th anniversary but of course now upon its release we are 2 years later. That aside, the documentary is at best mildly entertaining or insightful. Roth mostly interviews Blige and a number of people who were around tat that time (Sean 'Diddy' Combs, etc.) but there is very little insight from any of them.

Also very little footage from the early 90s when all of this was taking place.

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