Article: 'Growing Pains': M.J.'s Rx; Mary J. Blige Sings About the Healing Salve Of Womanhood and Sisterhood on New CD

Mary J. Blige knows your pain. She's reached icon status crafting analgesic hits for lovelorn ladies. She can salvage your self-worth and help you locate your dwindling dignity. And if that's not enough, on her excellent eighth album, "Growing Pains," she can also make you dance.

"I hear you've been running / from the beautiful queen that you could be becoming," she counsels on the jubilant, up-tempo, gospel- tinged lead song. "Work That." It's a courageous message, especially when there are so many other voices in media and society telling young women otherwise.

Blige's lesson is not that women are invincible, but that men and women need to come together if they are to survive. She ...

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