https://www.lyndsanity.com crazy in love with all things pop Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:43:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 https://www.lyndsanity.com/music/mary-j-blige-on-how-reliving-her-pain-helps-others-heal-i-dont-mind-that-being-my-job-on-this-earth/ https://www.lyndsanity.com/music/mary-j-blige-on-how-reliving-her-pain-helps-others-heal-i-dont-mind-that-being-my-job-on-this-earth/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2021 03:12:14 +0000 http://www.lyndsanity.com/?p=23282 Blige is known for throwing herself into her musical performances, often exorcising her demons through her intensely personal lyrics that chronicle her experiences with depression, addiction, heartbreak, and abuse; this is a major reason why she’s connected with her fans over the decades, and she almost sees this as a sacrifice, an act of service. “The beauty about performances is I think I’ve been blessed with a gift to relive things — relive because it really happened,” she ponders. “And when you hear those lyrics, it lives again; when you sing those lyrics, it lives again. And I think I’ve been blessed with the gift to do that and not get harmed by it. My doing that, my reliving that onstage, is helping someone else to heal. And I don’t mind that being my job on this Earth. If that’s what I’m supposed to do, then that’s what I’ve been doing.”

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