Growing Pains
仕様 | 価格 | 新品 | 中古品 |
CD, インポート, リミックス含む, 2009/1/1
"もう一度試してください。" | インポート, リミックス含む |
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| ¥1,181 | ¥670 |
CD, インポート, 2008/2/26
"もう一度試してください。" | インポート | ¥1,600 | ¥153 |
CD, 2008/2/19
"もう一度試してください。" | 1枚組 |
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| ¥2,341 | ¥170 |
CD, 限定版, 2008/11/19
"もう一度試してください。" | 限定版 |
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| — | ¥1 |
CD, CD+DVD, 限定版, 2008/3/12
"もう一度試してください。" | CD+DVD, 限定版 |
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| — | ¥693 |
CD, 2008/6/1
"もう一度試してください。" | 1枚組 |
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| — | ¥11,506 |
曲目リスト
1 | Work That |
2 | Grown Woman featuring Ludacris |
3 | Just Fine |
4 | Feel Like a Woman |
5 | Stay Down |
6 | Hurt Again |
7 | Shakedown featuring Usher |
8 | Till the Morning |
9 | Roses |
10 | Fade Away |
11 | What Love Is |
12 | Work in Progress (Growing Pains) |
13 | Talk To Me |
14 | If You Love Me? |
15 | Smoke |
16 | Come To Me (Peace) |
商品の説明
内容紹介
Geffen Records superstar and hit-making songwriter Mary J. Blige, is set to follow-up the most successful album of her career, the triple platinum The Breakthrough, with her eighth (8th) studio CD Growing Pains.
Growing Pains includes the single "Just Fine" which has become an instant favorite on radio and on MTV, BET and VH-1. The second single from Growing Pains, "Work That," is currently featured in an Apple I-Pod commercial.
After selling over 40 million CDs and garnering six Grammy Awards during her phenomenal 15-year career, Mary is confident that her fans will not be disappointed with Growing Pains. "They're going to get a sense of what my state of mind is and how I view the world," she says. "And hopefully, most of all, they're going to hear just the sincere honesty and love that I have for them." She adds, "Growing Pains represents accepting that there's pain that goes along with growing and change. No pain, no gain."
Growing Pains, with Mary co-writing most of the songs on the album, features guest appearances by Ludacris and Usher and production by The Neptunes, Jazze Pha, Johnta Austin, Neyo, Stargate, Bryan-Michael Cox, Dre and Vidal, Tricky, Dream, and Sean Garrett.
Mary makes her message loud, clear and seriously funky on the first release "Just Fine" produced by Jazze Pha and Tricky and co-written by Mary and Dream. A celebration of life, "Just Fine" gives you Mary fierce, and as the video shows, glamorous. The song's vibe? "Sometimes it feels like you're having this miserable time, like all 365 days of the year are tough. But then, you get one of those days; maybe when your hair is great, or you're not stuck in traffic; where it's a `just fine' day. At some point," Mary laughs, "You've got have one or two of those."
The party and positivity keeps on keeping on with the rump shaking second single "Work That." Mary comments, "When I meet a woman who doesn't know what to do about her weight or her hair I always say - `whatever it is that you have, make that work for you, Work what you got.'"
After releasing her bestselling anthology Reflections last year, Growing Pains is Mary's first CD of new material since The Breakthrough debuted at #1 in 2005, selling over 700,000 copies its first week -- the best opening week for a solo R&B female artist in SoundScan history. The album's first single, "Be Without You," also made chart history by holding down the #1 spot on the Billboard R&B charts for a record breaking 16 straight weeks; making it the longest-running No. 1 song on the R&B chart in over 40 years. Mary led all artists with eight 2007 Grammy nominations for the landmark album, and she took home honors for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, Best R&B Song (both for "Be Without You"), and Best R&B Album. After earning three Grammy Awards, she continued her award show domination by winning nine Billboard Music Awards, two American Music Awards, two BET Awards, two NAACP Image Awards, and a Soul Train Award. The Breakthrough lived up to its name selling over seven million copies worldwide.
More from Mary J. Blige
ReflectionsA Retrospective
Amazonレビュー
"I'm talkin' 'bout things I know," Mary J. Blige wails on "Work That," the second single and opening track of Growing Pains. The album squeaked into 2007 too late to make best-of lists but otherwise would have stormed its way up several, for sure. She needn't have hit us with such a pronouncement: In 16 songs that ring as remarkably, unflinchingly true as those on 2005's landmark The Breakthrough, the queen of hip-hop soul keeps "keeping it real" a specialty. There's no sense in trying to assign credit for the skin-tight grooves and funked-up retro vibe here; with nine producers padding Blige's emotion-rich voice and the lyrics she so obviously lives by, what we're left with is a melange of sounds. But it's a measure of an artist who has mastered her own identity and left nothing to chance that this, her eighth studio album, comes off so free of wild cards and loose edges. "You ask what love feels like," she sings on "What Love Is," one of the disc's less fierce tracks. "It feels like joy, and it feels like pain, and it feels like sunshine, and it feels like rain," she continues, answering the question. The album feels the same way, a passel of complex feelings all wrapped up in love. No one knows struggle, heartache, and triumph over mediocrity like Blige. --Tammy La Gorce
Product Description
Geffen Records superstar and hit-making songwriter Mary J. Blige, is set to follow-up the most successful album of her career, the triple platinum The Breakthrough, with her eighth (8th) studio CD Growing Pains.
Growing Pains includes the single "Just Fine" which has become an instant favorite on radio and on MTV, BET and VH-1. The second single from Growing Pains, "Work That," is currently featured in an Apple I-Pod commercial.
After selling over 40 million CDs and garnering six Grammy Awards during her phenomenal 15-year career, Mary is confident that her fans will not be disappointed with Growing Pains. "They're going to get a sense of what my state of mind is and how I view the world," she says. "And hopefully, most of all, they're going to hear just the sincere honesty and love that I have for them." She adds, "Growing Pains represents accepting that there's pain that goes along with growing and change. No pain, no gain."
Growing Pains, with Mary co-writing most of the songs on the album, features guest appearances by Ludacris and Usher and production by The Neptunes, Jazze Pha, Johnta Austin, Neyo, Stargate, Bryan-Michael Cox, Dre and Vidal, Tricky, Dream, and Sean Garrett.
Mary makes her message loud, clear and seriously funky on the first release "Just Fine" produced by Jazze Pha and Tricky and co-written by Mary and Dream. A celebration of life, "Just Fine" gives you Mary fierce, and as the video shows, glamorous. The song's vibe? "Sometimes it feels like you're having this miserable time, like all 365 days of the year are tough. But then, you get one of those days; maybe when your hair is great, or you're not stuck in traffic; where it's a `just fine' day. At some point," Mary laughs, "You've got have one or two of those."
The party and positivity keeps on keeping on with the rump shaking second single "Work That." Mary comments, "When I meet a woman who doesn't know what to do about her weight or her hair I always say - `whatever it is that you have, make that work for you, Work what you got.'"
After releasing her bestselling anthology Reflections last year, Growing Pains is Mary's first CD of new material since The Breakthrough debuted at #1 in 2005, selling over 700,000 copies its first week -- the best opening week for a solo R&B female artist in SoundScan history. The album's first single, "Be Without You," also made chart history by holding down the #1 spot on the Billboard R&B charts for a record breaking 16 straight weeks; making it the longest-running No. 1 song on the R&B chart in over 40 years. Mary led all artists with eight 2007 Grammy nominations for the landmark album, and she took home honors for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, Best R&B Song (both for "Be Without You"), and Best R&B Album. After earning three Grammy Awards, she continued her award show domination by winning nine Billboard Music Awards, two American Music Awards, two BET Awards, two NAACP Image Awards, and a Soul Train Award. The Breakthrough lived up to its name selling over seven million copies worldwide.
More from Mary J. Blige
Reflections輸 Retrospective
登録情報
- メーカーにより製造中止になりました : いいえ
- 製品サイズ : 12.4 x 14.1 x 1.3 cm; 96.1 g
- メーカー : Geffen Records
- EAN : 0602517520301
- 製造元リファレンス : 6 3 01752030
- オリジナル盤発売日 : 2007
- レーベル : Geffen Records
- ASIN : B000X3VN5U
- ディスク枚数 : 1
- Amazon 売れ筋ランキング: - 357,397位ミュージック (ミュージックの売れ筋ランキングを見る)
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- - 6,558位R&B
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上位レビュー、対象国: 日本
レビューのフィルタリング中に問題が発生しました。後でもう一度試してください。
全体的にしっとりした曲が多く、ヒップホップ色よりもソウル色の強いアルバムとなっている。
彼女が歌うとただのラヴ・ソングが、深くて、ソウルフルで、スピリチュアルなものに変わってしまう、そんな魔法のような声を持っている特別なアーティストのような気がする。
彼女は「ヒップホップ・ソウルの女王」と言われているが、そろそろアレサ・フランクリンと同等の「ソウルの女王」と呼んでも差し支えない時期に来ているのではないだろうか。
そんな風に思わせる、ずば抜けたクオリティーを持った作品だとも思う。
さらに時代をうまくとりこんだアルバムを作り続けること
それだけでも評価に値すると思いますが、
やっぱり中心となるのは、堂々としたメアリーのボーカル!
前作より落ち着いた感もありますが
だからこそアルバム全体を通して、しっとりと聴けるとも思います。
冒頭3連のポップなHipHopがアゲる。特に先行シングル「③Just Fine」はとてもhappyなMary。ポップ過ぎ!と賛否を生んだ…確かに ジャネットが歌ってもいいアップ・チューン。私的には Michaelばりのshoutがツボw 軽快なクラップ音が心躍る!また 同時期にマライア、ブリトニー、カイリー・ミノーグ、アリシア・キーズ etc.大物アルバムの一挙リリースも控えており 制作陣の戦略も垣間見れる。
以降は medium, slowで落ち着いたMaryの別格ヴォーカルが全曲心地いい。出色は…
⑤Stay Down シンガーMaryのライム,chorus表現+Bryan-Michael Cox & Johnta Austin
⑥Hurt Again 珠玉medium sweet Soul 美声にうっとり♡次曲アッシャーduetも魅せるが新さは…
⑧Till The Morning 曲調がswitchする Neptunes制作 リズムと重低音が愉しい♡
11 Fade Away ピアノメロとguitarリフが共鳴するmedium 後尾のストリングも美しい
12 What Love is 前曲からの繋がりが秀逸 〝愛とは〟情感豊かなMary節が咲き誇る
15 If You Love Me? 流麗バラード pianoとSoul歌唱の共鳴が芸術的 もっと聴いていたい…
16 Smoke ピアノ旋律 UpでポジティブなMary節がポップに輝く シンプル故にhigh-level
〈ボーナストラックもHigh-Quality!!〉
18 Hello It's Me マーク・ロンソン/トッド・ラングレンのカヴァーが反則w 魅せつける♡
19 Mirror アコギメロでラッパーEveとMary節溢れるメッセージはカッコ良過ぎ!
今作ソウル・クイーンは アートワーク然り 一見エレガントだが…抑えた情熱が滲み出て じわじわハマる傑作ヾ(๑╹◡╹)ノ" pianoやguitarの生楽器が…Rock的bluesアプローチも感じるのは私だけ⁉︎
あと デラックス エディDVD付は拘る必要無し 時の心情を語るインタヴューよりLIVEdvd観る方がイイ
冒頭3連のポップなHipHopがアゲる。特に先行シングル「③Just Fine」はとてもhappyなMary。ポップ過ぎ!と賛否を生んだ…確かに ジャネットが歌ってもいいアップ・チューン。私的には Michaelばりのshoutがツボw 軽快なクラップ音が心躍る!また 同時期にマライア、ブリトニー、カイリー・ミノーグ、アリシア・キーズ etc.大物アルバムの一挙リリースも控えており 制作陣の戦略も垣間見れる。
以降は medium, slowで落ち着いたMaryの別格ヴォーカルが全曲心地いい。出色は…
⑤Stay Down シンガーMaryのライム,chorus表現+Bryan-Michael Cox & Johnta Austin
⑥Hurt Again 珠玉medium sweet Soul 美声にうっとり♡次曲アッシャーduetも魅せるが新さは…
⑧Till The Morning 曲調がswitchする Neptunes制作 リズムと重低音が愉しい♡
11 Fade Away ピアノメロとguitarリフが共鳴するmedium 後尾のストリングも美しい
12 What Love is 前曲からの繋がりが秀逸 〝愛とは〟情感豊かなMary節が咲き誇る
15 If You Love Me? 流麗バラード pianoとSoul歌唱の共鳴が芸術的 もっと聴いていたい…
16 Smoke ピアノ旋律 UpでポジティブなMary節がポップに輝く シンプル故にhigh-level
〈ボーナストラックもHigh-Quality!!〉
18 Hello It's Me マーク・ロンソン/トッド・ラングレンのカヴァーが反則w 魅せつける♡
19 Mirror アコギメロでラッパーEveとMary節溢れるメッセージはカッコ良過ぎ!
今作ソウル・クイーンは アートワーク然り 一見エレガントだが…抑えた情熱が滲み出て じわじわハマる傑作ヾ(๑╹◡╹)ノ" pianoやguitarの生楽器が…Rock的bluesアプローチも感じるのは私だけ⁉︎
あと デラックス エディDVD付は拘る必要無し 時の心情を語るインタヴューよりLIVEdvd観る方がイイ
また、今までのMaryに無かった曲調にも挑戦しています
しかし.. 前々作からのアルバムからすると鳥肌が立つ様な曲があまり無く、若干地味めな感がしまして
いつものアクのあるソウルフルな曲がもう1.2曲あれば嬉しかったなというのが率直な感想。
ということで★−1です
が、聞き込める要素が十分に詰まっていて「飽きる」ことは絶対にない
そこがこのアルバムのすごいところ
あまり曲の雰囲気が上下せず整っているので全体を徹して聞くのがお勧めです
是非アルバムで一曲一曲噛み締めてもらいたい
音はいいと思うんですが、インタヴューの内容はそれほど深いものではないので、ヴィデオ・クリップ以外は、ファン以外には見る価値はない、と思います。メアリーが夫と二人三脚で100%管理して制作をがんばっているということだけを理解していれば、それで十分でしょう。11曲しか歌詞と対訳がついていないのは、やはりメアリーが思想史的には深くないからでしょうね。
近時は現米国副大統領であるカマラ・ハリス女史の選挙戦時テーマソング(2020年)としても再注目された(1)Work That(US#65、USR&B#16)から幕開け。この曲の他、シングルリリースされたのは(3)Just Fine(US#22、USR&B#3)、(5)Stay Down(USR&B#34)の2曲。
どれも良い曲ですが、その他にも(7)Shake Down (feat. Usher)、(8)Till the Morning、(11)What Love Is、(12)Work in Progress (Growing Pains)、(16)Smokeなど聴きどころは多い。
それとTodd Rundgrenの名曲カバー(18)Hello It's Meは個人的に嬉しい限り。原曲の良さを上手く再現しています。
『痛み(Pain)の女王』の真骨頂を発揮した1枚。曲良し、アレンジ良しで多額の予算を使ったと思いますが、1時間超の時間が一気に過ぎ去る作品。MJBに駄作無しの快作でした!!
他の国からのトップレビュー
Il disco Growing Pains si apre con il singolo Work That che riesce a rappresentare al meglio l'artista nel suo tipico vivace R&B.
Spicca la collaborazione con Ludacris in Grown Woman in stile hip hop/ rap considerandola tra le canzoni più radiofoniche del disco.
Mary J Blige si supera duettando anche con Usher in Shake Down , canzone in genere Hip hop soul, decisamente più raffinato. Ci sono diverse ballate tra cui: What love is e If you love me.
L'unica cosa che mi è dispiaciuta è che è arrivato il disco un pò graffiato.
As for the album, I truly am impressed with "Smoke", "Fade Away", "Stay Down", "Hurt Again" and "Roses". All of these songs truly set the album at its best. Ne-Yo did an excellent job with writing and co-producing 4 songs off the album, "Smoke" being one of those songs he wrote. He did showcase and exemplify that Mary can sing songs beyond the "crying", "hurting" and the "pain", which Mary is truly signatured for with singing R&B/Hip-Hop/Soul songs (i.e. "My Life"). As for songs "Talk to Me" and "If You Love Me", Mary keeps us with what she is always been known for regarding songs coming from the soul grasping her straightforwardness when she sings about love-being in it, getting out of it and having gone through it. She sets her own standards with song expression like no other. From the rough, raw, soulful but realness in her voice, she has truly stood out and will forever do so.
Now, with reading this, "Should you buy the album?"...YES! If you are a true Mary J. Blige fan, you must do so. If you don't, that's fine. However, please respect the true fact that she is the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul. Hate it or Love it!
Cet album m'a réconcilié avec le r'n'b made in US qui pour ma part devenait lassant. Il y a vraiment de magnifique morceaux qui auraient mérités d'avoir une diffusion sur les radios ou chaînes musicales. Je pense notamment à son duo avec Usher:"Shake down", "Stay Down", "Hurt Again" ou encore "Come to me". Mary J.Blige a vraiment une voix qui se démarque de beaucoup de jeunes chanteuses d'aujourd'hui car quand on l'écoute on sent qu'il y a du vécu et personnellement je ne peux pas rester insensible à cela. En résumé, c'est un album que j'invite à écouter et à acheter.