Thursday, October 29, 2015


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The song whole damn year, hip hop song by Mary J Blige, the song is all about her experience with domestics’ violence. She also describe how many women are being abuse every day, she used three different women as an illustration in her song, and also with her mother’s experience while growing as a child. Mary J Blige putting a spotlight on domestic abuse how it takes whole damn year to repair the body. She is a huge support in raising demotic violence awareness by opening a center for battered women in New York in 2013. Mary J Blige has multi Grammy award as a winning artist. According to her she learn to love and accept herself despite a trouble she has being through.  The lyric Tryna find a way to explain this Why you can't touch me tonight. I can feel you're getting impatient, but really can't let you inside Bad, how deep the pain is, or you just couldn't believe And yes I'm good on the surface, I’m a mess underneath, see winter took most of my heart, and Spring punched right in the stomach, summer came looking for blood, and by autumn, I was left with nothing. She is speak mostly on the gravity of domestics abuse and how it take long time for the victim to get over it. It's been about five years

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 The reason why she is discussing  this social issue, because of her mother’s experience on  abuse from her  father, after beating the mother, he left  them when she was 4 years old, but he ‘did  come back from time to time and abuse her the more. There is a saying that experience is the best teacher. She is creating awareness how women suffer in the hand of their male counterpart all in the name of love and marriage and how the healing process take much years.

The song was written by Sande Emeli/Mary J Blige/ Brown Knox, the meaning is the information is passing across and the song is well know because of the artist involve and is was a collective effort.

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