Emotion Music Cd

Martina Mcbride - Emotion

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Emotion      Artist : Martina McBride      List Price : $10.98 USD        ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1999-09-14      Studio : RCA      Label : RCA      Avg. Customer Rating : (140 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Emotion      INSPIRATIONAL NO MATTER WHAT'S HAPPPENING      Rating:      In your life. The words in this album got me through some of the roughest times of my life, and I mean rough! After being attacked and brutally beaten just prior to 9/11. I was terrified of people and everything on the other side of my front door. I retreated from the world completely and decided this world no longer deserved me. After the attacks my doctor refused to release me back to the job which was high paying and what I like to do. I lost many friends that I had on the job. Then I lost my self esteem, lost the job, lost the friends, and almost lost my life until I listened to this album with songs like "Ashes" and I came through. God bless her and the writers on that album I know they save people, they saved me. Every song speaks to and inspires me! You won't be disappointed even if you don't like country! (which I never listened to before, other than Patsy Cline!)     Customer Reviews for Emotion Cd      Surprisingly entertaining      Rating:      Martina McBride first caught my ear on "I Love You" but I never expected Emotion to be as uptempo and light as it is. Of course, like any typical listener, I set the song I liked (the aforementioned "I Love You") on repeat so I didn't really listen to the remaining tracks until I pretty much bored myself over the song I'd been listening to. "Do What You Do," "Anything, "Make Me Believe" and "There You Are" all sounded as terrific as "I Love You"--little pop-py for Country music (I'd never been a HUGE Country fan, but had a phase of Country in junior high) but still Country (a la the presence of steel guitar in almost every song). 1999's Emotion by Martina McBride surprised me with an extremely delectable combination of the perfect Country-Pop. Definitely a suggested buy for any Country fan. Editorial Reviews for Emotion Audio Cd      Amazon.com      Liquid-eyed Martina McBride finds herself in a holding pattern after 1997's Evolution, unable to break completely free of country radio's indistinguishably bombastic mandates but also perceptibly champing at the bit to disobey them. The arena-ready country-rock ditties lead her to overreach badly (did it really take three writers to invent the hackneyed "I Love You"?), and the trite power ballads just push her bluster buttons, but when McBride's got good material, she's capable of making music that's quite nearly memorable. "Anything's Better Than Feelin' the Blues" (by Matraca Berg and Randy Scruggs) could be an exciting country single, and the two final tunes, Patty Griffin's "Good Bye" and Gretchen Peters's "This Uncivil War," clearly advance McBride's pop-ballad tendencies with some believable lyrical introspection. Such moments, however, are only brief respites from the overbearing Nashville formula. --Roy Kasten