Transcript

Mary J. Blige Reveals Just How Dark The Making Of Her Album ‘My Life’ Was · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

0:00
Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Music fans are counting
0:04
Speaker 1: down the days until the arrival of Mary J. Blige's
0:06
Speaker 1: Amazon Prime documentary in My Life, which looks back at
0:09
Speaker 1: the making of album of the same name, which not
0:12
Speaker 1: only cemented her career, but has since become the gold
0:14
Speaker 1: standard for every hip hop soul album that's followed it
0:17
Speaker 1: in the last twenty seven years. And while such deeply
0:19
Speaker 1: influential music came out of those recordings, Mary reveals and
0:22
Speaker 1: any trailer for the documentary she created it during one
0:24
Speaker 1: of the most challenging chapters of her life, saying My
0:27
Speaker 1: Life is probably my darkest album, made during one of
0:30
Speaker 1: the darkest times I've ever had. Most of the time,
0:32
Speaker 1: I was so depressed, I didn't want to live, but
0:34
Speaker 1: she poured those difficult emotions into her songwriting, adding I
0:37
Speaker 1: think the only thing that kept us guided was the music.
0:40
Speaker 1: It just saved you. My Life arrives June Amazon Prime
0:44
Speaker 1: that's Direct from Hollywood,