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Waking Up Laughing by: Martina McBride List Price: £15.99 CD-Charts Price: £9.78 You Save: £6.21 (39%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0886970367424 Label: Sonybmg Manufacturer: Sonybmg Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Sonybmg Release Date: April 02, 2007 Studio: Sonybmg Sales Rank: 6844 MPN: 703674 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: 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 Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - One Of Her Best Albums Yet!!!!Waking Up Laughing is the first album that Martina has written songs for and she produced it on her own(she is well able for it too) This is such a beautiful collection of heart - rendering songs that you will simply fall in love with. Martina always picks and now writes songs that make you feel so many different emotions and songs that you can relate to.Like the standout power ballad Anyway to the fantastic uptempo Everybody Does(you will so connect with this one).She starts off the album with a brilliant kiss off song If I Had Your Name filled with a cracking fiddle and electric guitar solo.Another sweet song is Beautiful Again(about hope).There's also her gorgeous ballad Tryin' To Find A Reason which features Keith Urban on harmonies. ... Read More: Rating:  - One for the heartstringsIt was a long time coming, but Martina McBride finally puts her previously unutilized song-writing skills to good use for three tracks on album number nine, which she also produced. Two of these tracks are straight-up single material - the already released "Anyway", followed closely on the album by "How I Feel". The third is "Beautiful Again", a real tear jerker of a song, dealing with broken homes, abuse, and single parenthood, but which shows that it's possible to focus on the positive and move on. Tracks to listen for include the opening song "If I Had Your Name" (listen for the guitars and violins); "Tryin' To Find a Reason", a breaking-up ballad featuring Keith Urban; "I'll Still Be Me", a poignant song about endless love, and "Love ... Read More: Rating: - Sticking to the formula, but why fix what isn't broke?So here we are at Martina's 9th studio album, Waking Up Laughing. It gives you a clear idea of the Nashville scene that the major story surrounding this release is the fact that, GASP, Martina not only writes the songs, but that she produces it as well. Ok, so it's only co-writing (and only THREE tracks at that), but she does "solo" produce the album and the general feeling is that she thus proves she's more than just another pretty face. Funny, I would have thought that her tendency to pepper her albums with tracks concerned deeply with social consciousness would have done that on their own. I mean even today, a new artist coming out with something like Independence Day would be taking a hell of a risk in the still conservative Nashville. That ... Read More: Rating: - Still Loving You Martina..."Waking Up Laughing" is Martina McBride's ninth studio album - her first in three years of original songs. Although, a fan of "Timeless" where she paid dedication to her country predecessors, I much prefer the "Martina songs". This is a different album that relies less on her powerful voice and more of the softly-softly approach. For the first time, Martina co-wrote three of the tracks on the album. "ANYWAY" the single released in the US is my current favourite on the album. Although, I find it a litte cliched I think the message behind it is sweet... "You can love someone with all your heart/ for all of the right reasons/ and in a moment they can choose to walk away/ love them anyway". This is the only power ballad on the album; the remaining ballads ... Read More: |
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