{"id":807721,"date":"2020-05-22T09:07:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T15:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1004267"},"modified":"2020-05-22T09:07:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T15:07:06","slug":"mary-j-blige-shares-cant-be-life-from-the-film-body-cam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/mary-j-blige-shares-cant-be-life-from-the-film-body-cam\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary J. Blige Shares \u2018Can\u2019t Be Life\u2019 From the Film \u2018Body Cam\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/mary-j-blige.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/mary-j-blige\/\">Mary J. Blige<\/a> has dropped a new single, \u201cCan\u2019t Be Life,\u201d featured on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/soundtrack\/\" id=\"auto-tag_soundtrack\" data-tag=\"soundtrack\">soundtrack<\/a> to the film <em>Body Cam<\/em>. Blige penned the song with frequent collaborators Denise Rich, Chucky Thompson, Stacy Barthe, Aaron Philips and Jimmy Cozier; it was produced by Chucky Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been torn down like a worn-down, crumbling building\/But I\u2019m up now, and I\u2019m up now, and I\u2019m still living,\u201d Blige sings, offering words of encouragement, hope and resilience throughout the track.<\/p>\n<p><em>Body Cam<\/em> is available today on streaming and digital download. The cop action-thriller stars Blige, Nat Wolff, David Zayas and Anika Noni Rose, and is directed by Malik Vitthal, whose directorial debut, <em>Imperial Dreams<\/em>, received the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2019, Amazon Studios announced that it was producing a documentary centered on Blige. The film is being directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Vanessa Roth and executive produced by Blige and&nbsp;<a id=\"auto-tag_sean-combs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sean-combs\/\" data-tag=\"sean-combs\">Sean Combs<\/a>, and follows Blige as she prepares to perform songs from her sophomore album&nbsp;<em>My Life<\/em> on the LP\u2019s 25th anniversary tour.<\/p>\n<p>Blige released a new box set,&nbsp;<em>HERstory Vol. 1<\/em>, containing some of her most popular Nineties hits along with remixes and rarities, on December 6th. She also received a Lifetime Achievement Honor at the 2019 BET Awards.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3>Popular on Rolling Stone<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/mary-j-blige-cant-be-life-body-cam-1004267\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary J. Blige has dropped a new single, \u201cCan\u2019t Be Life,\u201d featured on the soundtrack to the film Body Cam. Blige penned the song with frequent collaborators Denise Rich, Chucky Thompson, Stacy Barthe, Aaron Philips and Jimmy Cozier; it was produced by Chucky Thompson. \u201cI\u2019ve been torn down like a worn-down, crumbling building\/But I\u2019m up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 10:18:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}