The diva is back! Santa was nice to give me the new Mary J Blige CD called The Breakthrough. Her new video for Be Without You was promising already,  such a nice song and she looks even better today! My favorite tracks on the album are Good Woman Down, Take Me As I Am (with Lonnie Liston Smith sample!) and the very nice Father In You. I have to mention Baggage and Can't Get Enough too, produced by my long time heroes Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis with help from "Big" Jim Wright and the Avila brothers who are really kicking ass these days! 

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