Born for This!

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Born for This!
Stephanie Mills Born for This! album cover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 3, 2004
Length41:39
Label Lightyear
Producer
Stephanie Mills chronology
Personal Inspirations
(1994)
Born for This!
(2004)

Born for This! is a studio album by American singer Stephanie Mills. It was released by Lightyear Entertainment on August 3, 2004 in the United States. [1] The album features re-arranged productions of Mills's hit songs such as "Never Knew Love Like This Before" and "Something in the Way (You Make Me Feel)" as well as new songs she had not recorded before. [2] It debuted and peaked at number 25 on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. [3]

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Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]

In his review for AllMusic, editor Andy Kellman called the album a "solid album of contemporary R&B, most of which differs thematically (i.e., heartbreak, devotion, romance) from 1995's gospel-oriented Personal Inspirations . Surrounded by associates of Whitney Houston, Faith Evans, and Will Downing, Mills has made an album of mostly subdued and lightly upbeat material that will please her grown-up fan base. Mills is in such fine, with-the-times form that you could be fooled into thinking that she never went away." [4]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Can't Let Him Go"
  • Eastmond
  • Chambers
4:09
2."Never Knew Love Like This"
  • Darryl McClary
  • Chambers
  • Michael Allen
  • McClary
  • Allen
3:21
3."Healing Time"
  • McClary
  • Chambers
  • Allen
  • McClary
  • Allen
3:39
4."Love of My Life"
  • McClary
  • Chambers
  • Allen
  • McClary
  • Allen
4:01
5."Free"
4:26
6."For U"
  • McClary
  • Chambers
  • Allen
  • Juan Peter
  • Quincy Patrick
  • Mills
  • McClary
  • Allen
4:03
7."You Still Mean So Much" Ryan Leslie Leslie4:52
8."Something in the Way" Angela Winbush Lighty4:02
9."Baby Love"
  • Donald Woolfolk
  • Chamber
  • Mills
  • Eastmond
  • Chambers
4:04
10."Born for This" BeBe Winans Winans4:53

Charts

Chart (2004)Peak
position
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) [3] 25

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