In many ways, Breakthrough does present a more grown-up Mary: She’s married and supposedly happy now, and lyrics to songs like “No One Will Do” and “About You” find the singer praising her new hubby (or God, an ambiguity that most good Mary songs allow for), but the 72-minute opus-her longest in a string of too-long records-is the epitome of formulaic, giving you the feeling that you’ve heard this all before. The plan failed, and, as evidenced by the lyrics of the new track “MJB Da MVP” (“People were saying it’s just not gonna work/And my feelings they did hurt”), Blige took it to heart, following-up with No More Drama, a return-to-form that, despite a reunion with Sean Combs on 2003’s Love & Life, she’s been unable to top. It recalls her 1999 effort Mary, an album that positioned the once-street Queen of Hip-Hop Soul as a more mature, adult crossover artist.
Her hair pulled tightly and demurely from her face, which-with her big, brown, Egyptian eyes, slightly Romanesque nose, and teardrop-shaped scar-is the main attraction of the cover of her seventh album The Breakthrough.
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