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There are songs that immediately transport you to another place and time. Mary J. Blige featuring Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey, one of the members of the all-male R & B group Jodeci. At the time when Mary J. Blige's album was released in 1992, I was 10.
I didn't purchase the CD until a few years later and I remember it being one of the first CD's I bought and listened to from start to finish. The CD came with a poster that was in the inside front case. I hung it up on my wall and immediately felt like a grown woman.
Mary J. Blige is known for her womanly anthems. She sings about the many phases and faces of love with hits like, "Real Love" that spoke about the search for love and "Not Gone Cry", one of my favorite singles from Blige from the "Waiting to Exhale" movie soundtrack which discusses the pain and heartache from betrayal in love.
I love hearing both men and women singing together on a song. This one is full of passion, and I could tell that they sung this to each other. This is one of the songs that made me believe that all singers that were on a love track together was in a relationship. Unfortunately, I learned years later that their relationship didn't last and being younger at the time it made me not enjoy the song as much.
I fell in love with how they sung it to each other. There are moments in it where Mary's voice cracks and sounds off key, to me, but the passion and bravery in her voice pulls it off for me.
Although, this song was not written by Blige or Hailey, he contributed to two songs on her album, My Life and Mary admits that a lot of those songs were written about him and their tumultuous relationship.
The lyrics within the chorus are words that we all would love to hear from someone special - "If loving you is all that I can do, I don't want to do anything else. At least that's what the chorus declares. However, within the verses you hear through each person's lyrics why their love was doomed from the beginning.
The first verse begins with K-Ci declaring to Mary that every night and day he dreams of different ways to tell her something good but it's always misunderstood." He feels misunderstood by his attempts to make her happy. She walks away from him, and he's upset.
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Mary responds by saying "you've told me a thousand times that you would be mine--All mine! She says to him that she does everything for him but still can never find his smile. So, she feels as if she's working hard to make him happy and is unsuccessful because he's still not totally committed to only her.
Despite Mary's protest in the second verse, K-Ci boldly declares that he knows he's going to make love to her and asks her to just open up her heart and let me in because she knows that's where he belongs. They sing this verse together, so Mary responds immediately after with saying that I guess if all you want to do is LOVE me than it won't wrong and that they belong together.
I love the bridge of this song and how they both begin it together and then K-Ci begins to ask Mary if she will love him, and she responds yes- "I will love you." He says, "Let's make it easy." She says she will make things easy. This last line says a lot about how "hard" their relationship had been prior to these declarations. Unfortunately, we know how their love story ends- in heartbreak and great follow up albums.
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