Stronger also dawned Blige’s ostentatious album title phase and her soundtrack scores as album closers. Although Blige was in a ‘stronger’ space vocally, the album fell weak with generic songs like “We Got Hood Love” featuring Trey Songz. Blige’s ninth album is a happy medium between free-good records and tracks that consisted of low-drama. Stronger with Each Tear is probably not the successor fans expected after 2007’s regal Growing Pains. To celebrate the anniversary of Blige’s album Love & Life and her two-decade-long career, Rated R&B has ranked all 13 studio albums from least epic to most epic. Since then, Blige has done her part to discredit the LP - not performing songs off the project on tour and bypassing and overlooking the album in media conversations. The 18-track set, packed with heavy soul and edgy rap samples, birthed a top-10 R&B hit (“Love 1st Sight”) and two other moderately successful singles (“Ooh” and “Not Today”).Īlthough Love & Life earned Blige her second number one album on the Billboard 200 and gained Blige another platinum victory, the new artistic direction left a sour taste in the mouths of critics and career-long fans. Returning to humble beginnings, Blige and Diddy settled on recreating their ‘90s hip-hop soul magic on Love & Life. While Blige was building a love nest with her then-husband and manager, she found herself back in the music arms of her long-standing collaborator and friend, P.
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