Mary J. Blige Gives Props To Fellow Musicians

Rolling Stone caught up with Mary J. Blige who gave props to artists in many genres including Alanis Morissette, Madonna, and even Nirvana, as well as Jill Scott. Blige said Morissette’s ‘You Oughta Know’ “grabbed me in a fun way and an angry way. The video is what sold it for me: She started off slow, and then she just went wild out in the desert. I hadn’t seen a rock & roll female like her in a while. I was like,
‘Wow, she’s the truth on that’.” As for her favorite record by the Material Girl, Blige said, “‘Borderline.’ I’m getting ready to start crying right now! It just reminds me of a time when I was little. And ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart,’ by Bonnie Tyler. That record right there, I loved. I went out and bought it.”