Martina

Martina Mcbride - Martina

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Artist: Martina Mcbride
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-09-30
Model: N03-007430
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
  1. So Magical
  2. She's A Butterfly
  3. City Of Love
  4. This One's For The Girls
  5. How Far
  6. Reluctant Daughter
  7. Wearing White
  8. When You Love Me
  9. In My Daughter's Eyes
  10. Learning To Fall
  11. God's Will
  12. Over The Rainbow

Music reviews of Martina

Music Review: Same great voice... but same theme's with mediocre lyrics
Rating: 3 Stars

I have been a Martina fan since "The Way That I Am" and have enjoyed watching her Evolution (no pun intended) as an artist. She can without a doubt, blow the roof off a building with her voice and can make it soft enough to melt even the coldest of hearts. Martina has made a career out of 'pushing the envelope' and taking chances and hasn't been afraid to allow her music to expand to the 'pop' audience ("I Love You"). So this project came with alot of expectations: we can say her first studio album in 4 years, but the Greatest Hits contained 4 new tunes that all did well and again, showed great diversity.

I would like to say this album was disappointing, but Martina's voice is still outstanding: especially "City of Love", "How Far", and the classic "Over the Rainbow". The latter perhaps making the purchase worth it. I guess why I'm disappointed is because there is nothing exceptional about this record - no songs that show growth, none that grab you lyrically (the only exception perhaps being "Gods Will"), or seem any different than anything she's done in the past, with perhaps the exception of "In My Daughters Eyes." This seems like a calculated rush job - lets put a heart tugging song about a kid ("Gods Will"), girl power - gee which one could that be?, a song about standing by your man - "City of Love", a woman who takes a stand ("Reluctant Daughter")and of course a song reflecting how much you appreciate your man standing by you ("When You Love Me"). True, these are all themes that have made Martina what she is today, and you can't knock it. As Dana Carvey said impersonating George Michael "It's a formula but it bloody works." It's getting old though. Perhaps its the fact that these aren't songs that allow for unique arrangements or have lyrics that hit home.

Martina is capable of much much more. Perhaps she's afraid not to turn away country radio in the way that Faith Hill, Lee Ann Rimes, Wynonna, and most recently Lee Ann Womack have, by recording songs deliberately designed for pop radio. An artist can't help if pop latches on to a beautifully written song: ie Keith Urban's "Somebody Like You", Diamond Rio's "One More Day", Lonestar's "Amazed", etc. I can't believe there's that much of a lack of material out there. Martina and Faith are the top 2 selling females right now that don't have Mutt Lange co-writing and producing their project. RCA could make Kelly Clarkson a star and are the by far the most respected label in Nashville right now. They found Kenny Chesney great songs. "Evolution" did just that - it took her to another level creatively. This one is respectable, but is doubtful to bring in new fans.

Martina could certainly be content with all she's achieved. But if this is the best she's willing to put out, she reached her peak on the Greatest Hits project.

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Description of Martina

Audio CD (September 30, 2003) Number of Discs: 1 Label: RCA
Martina McBride is something of a marvel. Throughout her career she has managed to walk a tightrope between Nash-Vegas commercial concerns and the high art of well-crafted songwriting and serious singing that makes up modern country at its best. Her hits in the Nineties ("Wild Angels," Independence Day," "Life #9," "Safe in the Arms of Love") were beacons of light in a darkness of clichéd and over-produced cowboy-disco tunes. Martina continues her tradition of tasteful tune picking and powerful but never over-the-top vocals. "This One's for the Girls" mines much missed Mary Chapin Carpenter territory, while tunes like "In My Daughter?s Eyes" and "So Magical" (with its scenes of rural bliss) stay safely this side of excessive sentimentality thanks to McBride's considered performances. Even pop tunes like "When You Love Me" and "Learning to Fall" are kept country with an emphasis on guitars, fiddles, and steels over syrupy synthesizers. Throughout, producers Paul Worley and McBride herself give Nashville lessons on how to make a record that is shiny but never slick. Finally, her live performance of "Over the Rainbow" is a lesson on delivering a show-stopping vocal with minimal melisma and maximum soul. --Michael Ross

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