Cry by Faith Hill
Underappreciated
Faith Hill finally owns up to what we knew all along. She may be from
deep-dish Mississippi, but she isnt a country singer, and never has been.
This babes a diva now. And, as she says in her best Diana Ross voice on
Free, There aint nothin I can do about it. But what she could exercise
some control over, as the coproducer of her fifth studio album, is the
quality and style of her particular brand of über-pop, which on Cry
considerably ratchets up the noise factor from 1999s Breathe. The songs,
many written by tunesmiths long working in Nashville, often come stocked
with meaningful messages, i.e. the emptiness of addiction (If Youre Gonna
Fly) or the momentary connection with a loved one who has passed on
(Youre Still Here). Yet Hill and company (longtime producers Byron
Gallimore and Dann Huff, in conjunction with Marti Frederiksen) obviously
think the best way to make an R&B/pop record is to build a huge, airless
production around screeching guitars, wall-rattling drums, and Big Mama
choirs. The singer herself may be, indeed, turning out her best vocals ever.
But the album itself is a self-conscious mess--a big, wallowing cacophony
of sound that leaves the listener numb. In the end, its a miserable failure.
This chanteuses R&B just aint got no soul. --Alanna Nash
So Faith Hill's a country singer right? Then what's she doing releasing a
pop/rock album that is only loosely tied to the genre in which she has
acheived so much success? She's taking a chance.
To me it seems like the chance didn't pay off because it just didn't get
played in the right circles enough becuase, from the standpoint of a
listener, it's a fantastic album that showcases her vocal talent, excellent
lyrical and melodic surprises, brilliant instrumentation and a wide variety of
song types.
Other than the song "Beautiful" I'm hard pressed to find anything I don't like
or love on this album. Definitely worth a purchase.
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