Mary J. Blige Did A Fucking Suno Commercial

When she is at her absolute best, Mary J. Blige makes some of the most viscerally human music you ever heard in your life. That's what she has been doing ever since she arrived in the '90s. Her voice registers raw, convulsive emotions — heartbreak, betrayal, joy, indignity, distaste for hateration and holleration in this dancerie. When she sings something like "Real Love" or "I'm Goin' Down," you feel it in the pit of your soul. That's what makes her one of the greats, why her extremely of-the-moment commercial R&B records feel timeless. That's also why it's such a fucking drag to see her in a commercial for Suno, the generative AI music platform.In a Suno ad spot that popped up over the weekend, we see Mary J. Blige, the Queen Of Hip-Hop Soul, sitting in a studio and receiving a demonstrations of what Suno can do. She doesn't present herself an an enthusiastic user of the service. Instead, it's made to look like a candid video of Blige in the studio.When someone plays Blige what I assume is a Suno-generated version of a new Mary J. Blige song — which sounds like ass, by the way — she says, "I just process because I don't know what the hell y'all talking about, so I like to lea...