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'DRAMA' QUEEN Blige beat the Blus and came out on top
Mary J. Blige: Phil Knott/Camera Press/Retna
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David Browne
David Browne is EW's music critic and author of ''Dream Brother: The Lives & Music of Jeff & Tim Buckley'' (HarperCollins)
Like Bill Clinton, Blige can ignore drama all she wants, but it keeps coming back at her. Her sixth album finds her dissing backstabbers and gold-digging males while asserting her own supposedly positive mindset. It's the stuff of recent records by Blige heirs like Blu Cantrell and Sunshine Anderson, but No More Drama bests them all in the music and personality departments. From the Dre-produced theatricality of the single ''Family Affair'' to refined funk and crisp quiet-storm R&B, the multiproducer arrangements are expansive yet warm, and Blige's pushy rasp has never sounded better. Anyone who hires a choir to chant ''PMS!'' in a slow jam of the same name is the best sort of drama queen.
Posted Sep 03, 2001
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