Mary J. Blige felt like she ‘did something right’ after Kamala Harris used her song for election victory speech

Mary J. Blige is reflecting on her most influential album My Life in her new doc Mary J. Blige’s My Life, directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Vanessa Roth.

The doc offers an in-depth look at Blige's critically acclaimed 1994 album My Life, which features deeply personal tracks like "I'm Goin' Down," "Mary Jane" and "I Never Wanna Live Without You."

Mary J Blige's My Life "reveals the demons and blessings that inspired the record and propelled her from the soul-crushing world of New York's housing projects to international stardom," according to the doc's official logline.

The 50-year-old singer has been supporting other women throughout her career with her music and her work. She opened up to Etalk’s Sonia Beeksma about how it felt to see the first female Vice President of the United States walking out to her 2007 song “Work That” before delivering her election victory speech on Nov. 7.

“I just feel like I have a lot of responsibilities because if Kamala Harris is walking out to ‘Work That,’ [which is] not even a single. That’s a B-side on Growing Pains album. I just feel like wow, I did something right. I did something that made this woman — it caught her ear. This very important woman to our culture," Blige said reflecting on the moment.

"It leaves me responsible and humble and I just want to make sure I can try to get it right," she added.

When it comes to her new doc, Blige told Sonia that now was the time to let her fans into her life and see a whole different side of her because she wanted to “let people see where all this pain came from” for the iconic album.

“About two years ago, we were celebrating the 25^th anniversary of the My Life album. I was on the Royalty tour with Nas and he was celebrating the 25^th anniversary of Illmatic and I was celebrating the 25^th anniversary of My Life. We were performing in our shows and then Time magazine was celebrating the 25^th anniversary of My Life and just the whole United States was just celebrating it," Blige said.

After all the praise and celebration, Blige said she knew that "this is the time to do a documentary."

"This is the time to let people in and go to the fans and find out what they were dealing with. Pulling my family and finding out their different perspectives on things and the producers. Let people see where all this pain came from. Take them back into my life and my childhood and let them see where all the pain from the My Life album came from,” the "Real Love" singer explained.

Blige’s music isn’t just therapy for her fans and herself but it also puts people in their feelings and hits them right in the heart.

The “I’m Goin’ Down” singer said it took her a long time to realize that her music is actually healing for a lot of people.

“It was not during the My Life album. The thing that happened during the My Life album was when the fans bought the album, it let me know I was not alone," the Power Book II: Ghost (stream now on Crave) star shared. 

"I wasn’t just suffering alone. But with the whole process after that was like OK, I have a responsibility. I’m touching women. Women relate to what I’m going through because they’re going through [it]. It wasn’t just like an ‘Aha’ [moment], it was just like a consistent ‘Wow.’ I don’t even know what I did but I must continue to do it because it’s hard for me," Blige continued.

"The thing that was hardest was that it was hard for me to love myself and all these things so I didn’t know what I was doing for them. I knew I did something.”

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