Born for This!
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{{Infobox album
| name = Born for This!
| type = studio
| artist = Stephanie Mills
| cover = Stephanie_Mills_Born_for_This!_album_cover.jpg
| alt =
| released = August 3, 2004
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre =
| length = 41:39
| label = Lightyear
| producer =
- Michael J. Allen
- Gordon Chambers
- Barry J. Eastmond
- Eddie F
- Ryan Leslie
- Darryl McClary
- Stephanie Mills (exec.)
- Bebe Winans
| prev_title = Personal Inspirations
| prev_year = 1994
| next_title =
| next_year =
}}
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.[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/stephanie-mills-mn0000021334/discography Stephanie Mills Album Discography] 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.Billboard - [http://www.billboard.com/artist/280493/stephanie-mills/chart?f=333 Stephanie Mills - Chart history] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160803175903/http://www.billboard.com/artist/280493/stephanie-mills/chart?f=333 |date=2016-08-03 }} . It debuted and peaked at number 25 on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.
Critical reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 =AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{AllMusic |class=album |id=mw0000350164 |label=Born for This! review |first=Andy |last=Kellman |accessdate=2020-05-06}}
}}
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."
Track listing
{{track listing
| extra_column = Producer(s)
| title1 = Can't Let Him Go
| writer1 = {{hlist|Barry Eastmond|Gordon Chambers|Stephanie Mills}}
| extra1 = {{hlist|Eastmond|Chambers}}
| length1 = 4:09
| title2 = Never Knew Love Like This
| writer2 = {{hlist|Darryl McClary|Chambers|Michael Allen}}
| extra2 = {{hlist|McClary|Allen}}
| length2 = 3:21
| title3 = Healing Time
| writer3 = {{hlist|McClary|Chambers|Allen}}
| extra3 = {{hlist|McClary|Allen}}
| length3 = 3:39
| title4 = Love of My Life
| writer4 = {{hlist|McClary|Chambers|Allen}}
| extra4 = {{hlist|McClary|Allen}}
| length4 = 4:01
| title5 = Free
| writer5 = {{hlist|Darren Lighty||Edward Ferrell|Mills}}
| extra5 = {{hlist|McClary|Eddie F}}
| length5 = 4:26
| title6 = For U
| writer6 = {{hlist|McClary|Chambers|Allen|Juan Peter|Quincy Patrick|Mills}}
| extra6 = {{hlist|McClary|Allen}}
| length6 = 4:03
| title7 = You Still Mean So Much
| writer7 = Ryan Leslie
| extra7 = Leslie
| length7 = 4:52
| title8 = Something in the Way
| writer8 = Angela Winbush
| extra8 = Lighty
| length8 = 4:02
| title9 = Baby Love
| writer9 = {{hlist|Donald Woolfolk|Chamber|Mills}}
| extra9 = {{hlist|Eastmond|Chambers}}
| length9 = 4:04
| title10 = Born for This
| writer10 = BeBe Winans
| extra10 = Winans
| length10 = 4:53
}}
Charts
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| scope="col"| Chart (2004)
! scope="col"| Peak |
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| {{album chart|BillboardRandBHipHop|25|artist=Stephanie Mills|rowheader=true|accessdate=April 11, 2021|refname="BillboardRandBHipHop"}} |