Martina Mcbride - Waking Up Laughing
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Artist: Martina McbrideEdition: Music CD
Music CD: Region Code 0
CD Release Date: 2007-04-03
Audience Rating: Unrated
Music Label: Rca Records/Sbme
Soundtracks:
- If I Had Your Name
- Cry Cry (Till The Sun Shines)
- Tryin' To Find A Reason
- For These Times
- Anyway (Album & Digital Single Version)
- How I Feel
- I'll Still Be Me
- Beautiful Again
- Everybody Does
- House Of A Thousand Dreams
- Love Land
Music reviews of Waking Up Laughing
Music Review: Martina McBride Will Keep You Up Singing With Waking Up Laughing!!!!
Rating: 5 Stars
Waking Up Laughing marks country music sensation Martina McBride's ninth album release. Martina McBride, a Kansas beauty, has been a veteran RCA recording artist since 1992. She is the four-time recipient of the coveted CMA Female Vocalist of the Year award. With her signature style, a dynamic vocal range and soaring soprano voice, she connects directly to the heart of her audience. There are two sides to McBride; initially she records up-tempo and love songs including her hits "I Love You," "Blessed," "This One's for the Girls," "Wild Angels" and "Valentine."
However, there is a mature side to McBride, where she addresses social awareness issues in her country classic "Independence Day," about domestic violence, whereas "Concrete Angel" and "Broken Wing" address child and emotional abuse, respectively.
In addition to being the solo producer of Waking Up Laughing, this record marks McBride's debut as a songwriter co-writing three of the album's 11 songs including "Anyway," "Beautiful Again" and "How I Feel." The opening track "If I Had Your Name" is an up-tempo pop-country tune and in "Cry Cry 'Til The Sun Shines," McBride shows off her rocker edge, sounding similar to Sheryl Crow in "All I Wanna Do." "Anyway," the album's lead-off single co-written by McBride and the country duo Warren Brothers, showcases her ability to belt out an inspirational ballad about faith, hope and motivation. "Beautiful Again" explores an unwed mother who was sexually abused in her youth, but grows up able to overcome her past through the birth of her new daughter, realizing that the world is "beautiful again."
In "Tryin' to Find A Reason," a song about a failing romance, Martina collaborates with fellow country heartthrob Keith Urban, who lends his harmony vocals and guitar solo to a song that is destined to be McBride's next #1 single. In "I'll Still Be Me," McBride shows off her angelic voice, in a soothing love ballad that she dedicates to her husband and fellow sound engineer, John McBride. "Everybody Does" written by Rachel Proctor, who wrote McBride's 2002 hit "Where Would You Be," is a fun up-tempo song that gives the lucky listener the exclusive opportunity to be mesmerized by McBride's tremendous vocal range.
However, McBride saves the album's two best songs for last: "House of A Thousand Dreams" is an exquisite story song with vivid imagery about a family who is not fortunate with monetary riches, but they are able to survive and live with contentment through their strong bonds of love and family unity. "Love Land," my personal favorite cut of the album, is a poignant ballad which really tugs at the heartstrings dealing with a pregnant woman marrying her sweetheart in Vegas, going through a painful miscarriage, but with the love and support of her beau she conceives again and gives birth to a healthy boy. Overall, Waking Up Laughing is proof that Martina McBride has recorded, produced and co-written another emotionally powerful album with flawless lyrics, simultaneously raising the standards of modern country music.
Overall Rating: 5 BIG Stars out of a possible 5!
Description of Waking Up Laughing
After 16 million in sales and 22 top 10 singles, some artists might be afraid to tinker with success and tempt fate. But not Martina McBride. Following up on her platinum-selling Timeless album, a poignant collection of country classics representing her first effort as solo producer, she's at the production helm again for her ninth studio release, Waking Up Laughing. Since her debut in 1992, McBride has maintained a consistent presence on the country charts, including six number one singles, and has also enjoyed crossover success in the pop and adult contemporary genres. Always striving for new artistic heights, McBride is breaking new ground by serving as producer, writer and artist for her latest album, which includes three songs she co-wrote with the Warren Brothers and other top songwriters.Martina McBride has long been a champion of music as social consciousness, particularly for abused women ("Independence Day") and children. On Waking Up Laughing, her ninth album and the follow-up to Timeless, her platinum-selling album of country classics, she advances the theme while expanding it. While two songs explore the issue of unwed mothers (particularly the exquisite "Love Land," which closes the album), and another, "Beautiful Again," touches on child sexual abuse, her overall repertoire embraces the wholeness of family, and of standing strong together in the face of adversity and defeat. Musically, McBride has always proved to be an elegant thorn--her song selection is often inspired (and here, she co-wrote three tunes, including the skyscraping single "Anyway"), but she has tended to use her huge, ride-the-wave soprano full-tilt, without employing the subtle shadings that would make her even more emotionally resonant. On Waking Up Laughing she seems to have worked on the problem, yet in her second foray as solo producer, she still tends to gild the lily instrumentally--inflating string bridges between choruses, for example, or loading the opening country-pop track, "If I Had Your Name," with a Southern-rock guitar break, a listen-to-me fiddle showcase, a Celtic guitar intro, and a close that brings to mind George Harrison's sitar in play-it-backward mode. That said, she makes fine use of what sounds like a black female choir on the uplifting "For These Times," and wisely keeps the haunting break-up ballad "Tryin' to Find a Reason" (with Keith Urban's harmony vocals and guitar solo) lean and affecting. As McBride works to refine her pastiche of creativity, commerciality, and social awareness, she slyly takes more chances than one might think, all the while rallying old fans and making new ones. --Alanna Nash
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