The accompanying music video for the song was directed by American director Hype Williams and shot in Kauai, Hawaii in June 1997. Laura Jamison from Salon also noted that "Everything" quotes Stylistics' song, adding that it "draws you in with its sheer familiarity." Music video Gerald Martinez from New Sunday Times said that Blige "mixes sweetness and power". Larry Flick from Billboard wrote that Blige "is in typically solid diva form on this romantic jeep cruiser, which is fueled by a prominent sample of "You Are Everything" by the Stylistics, as well as a snippet from James Brown's "The Payback"." He noted that producers Jam and Lewis "do an exemplary job of letting Blige breathe freely as an artist (which she does with delicious soul), while also injecting their own signature pop/ R&B flavor." Jonathan Bernstein from Entertainment Weekly stated that "she unleashes equal joy" on the song. An accompanying music video, directed by Hype Williams, was filmed in Kauai, Hawaii in June 1997. It also peaked at number six on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Blige's first top ten hit in the UK, and entered the top ten in the Netherlands and the top twenty in New Zealand. "Everything" reached number twenty-four on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number five on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. MCA Records released the song as the third single from Share My World in August 1997. Due to the inclusion of the samples, Brown, Hachidai Nakamura, Rokusuke Ei, Linda Creed, Thom Bell, John Starks, and Fred Wesley are also credited as songwriters. The song contains samples from " You Are Everything" (1971) by American soul group The Stylistics and " The Payback" (1973) by American singer James Brown, also incorporating elements from " Sukiyaki" (1961) by Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto. It was written and produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis for Blige's third album, Share My World (1997). " Everything" is a song by American singer Mary J. Apart from only a couple lukewarm tracks and a poorly recorded version of "One" with U2, it is completely correct.1997 single by Mary J. Take "Can't Hide from Love," where she's such a force that Jay-Z dishes out a quick introduction and knows to stay out of the way for the remainder of the track, or the glorious "I Found My Everything," her "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman." Beat for beat, the album features the best round of productions Blige has been handed since the mid-'90s. It's one of several tracks to beam with a kind of contentment and confidence that Blige has never before possessed. She jacks the beat from the Game's "Hate It or Love It" for "MJB da MVP," where she reflects on her career, thanks her supporters, and reasserts her rightful position as the queen of hip-hop soul. On the nearly anthemic "Good Woman Down," she sees a less matured version of herself in young women and uses her experiences to advise. "Father in You" sounds like a note-perfect facsimile of a classic soul ballad, rising and falling and twisting with a sensitive string arrangement, but the lyrics are pure Blige, acknowledging the ways in which her husband has made up for the absence of her father. The past does play a significant role in the album, as in "Baggage," where she apologies to her husband for bringing it into their relationship. The Breakthrough also contains some of the drama that fans expect, despite Blige's continued happiness, but it's clear that she has gained enough distance from the uglier parts of her past that she can inhabit them and, once again, deliver those songs. Diddy collaborations, likely intended to recapture the magic the duo put together on What's the 411? and My Life, didn't always pay off, and Blige was about to become a wife, so the songs steeped in heartbreak and disappointment weren't delivered with as much power as they had been in the past.
In retrospect, her previous album, 2003's Love & Life, was awkward the P.
The singer had her way, however, and one of her best studio albums came out instead.
Blige's career was supposed to be anthologized.
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