{"id":156016,"date":"2026-03-07T04:28:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/156016\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T04:28:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:28:33","slug":"mary-j-blige-takes-it-to-the-brooklyn-bridge-in-the-more-than-a-lover-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/156016\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary J. Blige Takes It To The Brooklyn Bridge In The \u2018More Than A Lover\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\"\"Photo Credit: Mary J. Blige\/YouTube<\/p>\n

Mary J. Blige is popping out in 2026. She has her Mary J. Blige: My Life, My Story<\/a> residency in Las Vegas in May, and in July, she\u2019ll co-headline the\u00a02026 Cincinnati Music Festival<\/a>\u00a0in Ohio. Before she jets off to these performances, Mary pops out with a pop-up performance on the Brooklyn Bridge in the visual for her latest single \u201cMore Than A Lover.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

The Brooklyn Bridge is the main character in the Nico Scandiffio-directed music video. The director starts the clip with quick shots of the world-famous bridge\u2019s architecture and city views before his camera lands on Blige. She\u2019s standing on a section of the bridge\u2019s walking path to sing her melodic ode to the man who\u2019s captured her heart while cars zoom by underneath her. <\/p>\n

Scandiffio found inspiration from the music platform 4 Shooters Only<\/a> and its From The Block performance series for the visual, which primarily features shots of Mary singing into a microphone dangling from the sky. Rocking her signature blonde tresses and designer threads, the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul looks more like the Queen of New York with the skyline in the background. <\/p>\n

Mary swats the mic away at the end of the song, but the camera keeps rolling. The final minute of the clip shows the legend interacting with fans and passersby who gathered to watch her. We see her greeting the people, taking selfies and getting mad love from the crowd.<\/p>\n

Watch Mary J. Blige\u2019s music video \u201cMore Than A Lover\u201d starring the Brooklyn Bridge right here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo Credit: Mary J. Blige\/YouTube Mary J. Blige is popping out in 2026. She has her Mary J.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,55088,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-156016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-mary-j-blige","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}