It's been over four years since Annie Lennox released an original album. No doubt, then, this fall's offering will be pull out all the stops.

According to perpetually wet gossips, pool party, the former Eurythmics singer has enlisted the help of Madonna, Mary J. Blige and Kelis, among others for her forthcoming full-length.

This is a Sweet Dream come true!

In an effort to help your day along, we planned on posting a little video action from one of our favorite ladies, Mary J. Blige. At first we were going to post "Enough Cryin'", but the sound just didn't live up to its potential. So, we scrapped it.

Then we thought we'd post "No One Will Do", which we planned on dedicating to you kids. Because, really, no one else will do but you (yes, you).

Anyway, it seems Ms. Blige hasn't gotten around to making a visual-friendly version. While we typically eschew film of lip-synching fans, something told us to watch this video of a YouTuber named " Madanna" doing his best Mary J. impression. Boy oh boy are we glad we did! We've watched it three times and we fall more and more in love with this kid with each view.

So, we dedicate this Mary J. Blige fan's lip-synching video to you, our beloved and irreplaceable readers. Also, we don't want to assume, but something tells us Madanna may be a reader...

We get a lot of mail around here. Most are from people enjoying the site and passing along ideas. A small percentage is hate mail. And then there are the crazies. Most of the crazy mails we receive we simply ignore. But this last letter we felt we needed to share, since, um, it can save lives.

We love Mary J. But we had no clue she was this amazing. One reader writes below.

I am a 58 years old man and I can attest to the fact the Mary J.'s music healed me and kept me from taking an operation that 3 doctors had said that I needed. After I realized that I was completed healed, I let one of my friends who is 5 years of my senior and very sick to listen to my album. Each day he would listen to the album for about and hour. On the 5th day when I went to visit him, he told me how much better he felt. On the 14th day he called his doctor and told the doctor that he wanted to stop taking the 7 pills that he was taking each day.

At first his doctor recommended against it, but once my friend went in for his routine checkup, the doctor said that it had to be a miracle. There was no trace of his liver problem and the doctor had colleague doctor to give him a full examination. This doctor could find any trace of any liver problems also.

I went and bought 2 more of the identical albums and gave them to my two diabetic brothers who are both much older than me. Within two months they both could stop taking their insulin shots and now their pancreas is back producing insulin. Their doctors refuse to comment and call it mind over matter, but we all know better.

There are four more other sick elder persons whom I have had to listen to Mary J.s music and they are all now from under the care of their doctors. One is now training to become a minister and he promises to spread in his gospel the heeling power of Mary J.s music.

The entire letter, with all its grammatical errors intact, after the jump.

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