There was a time, not so long ago, when Mary J. Blige was on top of the R&B world. Her rich, superior vocals were compared to the likes of Aretha Franklin and Patti LaBelle. But you can bet that neither Aretha nor Patti would stoop so low as to sing for a Burger King fried chicken meal on top of a lunch table.
Thus is how far Mary J. Blige has fallen.
Yesterday, Burger King pulled the commercial ad featuring the 41-year-old singer after she was dragged unmercifully across all major social networking websites on Monday. How embarrassing for Mary, whose 1992 debut album, What’s the 411? is still considered an R&B classic.
You can feel Mary’s humiliation throughout the commercial as she wails the answer to the question: “What’s in the new chicken snack wraps?”
The theme of the Burger King commercial is “Exciting things are happening at Burger King.” Apparently, nothing exciting is happening in Mary’s career right now.
Watch the ad after the break.
