Everyone around the country knows by know how controversial this Burger King commercial with Mary J Blige became. The singer hadn’t really speak on it since then, but she recently stopped by Angie Martinez show at Hot 97 and talked about it. Apparently, the initial idea of the commercial was a guy dreaming about iconic singer, Mary J. Blige singing to him about Burger King. But everyone who saw commercial, saw a different version of it. Yet, Mary did not think that it would cause such a controversy and the situation with all the negative responses broke her heart. Read the highlights of the interview below and watch the video.
On what were he expectations from that commercial:
“It was sold to us that I would be shot in an iconic way and it was going to be great so I was looking for someone to have mercy but no one had mercy and it’s cool. It was a learning experience.”
On her reaction after the commercial came out:
“I went online to listen to the remix I did with Fat Joe and I’m looking for that and all I see is Burger King, chicken, buffoonery and I’m like, ‘What the heck?’ It just broke my heart that people were going crazy and I understand the laughter and the jokes that was happening. That’s all good! You’re supposed to do that when something like that happens. It made people’s websites go up. It made people get more ratings on their radio stations. Cool. Whatever. Hehe Haha, but the thing that hurt me is when READ MORE
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