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Artista:
Martina McBride
Origen:
Estados Unidos, Sharon - KansasEstados Unidos
Nacida el día:
29 de Julio de 1966
Disco de Martina McBride: «Waking Up Laughing»
Disco de Martina McBride: «Waking Up Laughing» (Anverso)
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  • Título:Waking Up Laughing
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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.
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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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32 personas de un total de 34 encontraron útil la siguiente opinión:
- I suspect that some reviewers didn't actually listen to this CD

So many negative reviews. "Oh, the songs aren't as good as her old songs. Oh, she's too loud. Oh, it's over-produced. Oh, Oh, Oh." Give me a BREAK. It's 41 minutes of a voice belonging to a woman so gifted that I've just got to sit here and laugh at the cheap shots showing up in these reviews. The first track..."If I Had Your Name"...a perfect opener, catchy, perfect windows-rolled-down, volume-turned-up road music. "Cry Cry (Till The Sun Shines)"...sort of a Martina-Meets-Mellencamp heartland rocker. "Tryin' To Find A Reason"...a nice, tranquil track. "For These Times"...another track that balances subtlety with power. She's got a powerful voice, folks, and she uses it. Why wouldn't she? "Anyway"...sweet, sad, heartfelt, one of her originals (written with Brad and Brett Warren), and a word or two for her critics: "You can pour your soul out singin' a song you believe in, that tomorrow they'll forget you ever sang...sing it anyway." Touche. "How I Feel"...OK, maybe this one got a little over-produced. Her recent live performance of it on the April 4th "Imus In The Morning" show (yes, the same day he said the words that ended his career) was more streamlined and organic, but it's still a killer track with vocals and and overall vibe very reminiscent of Rosanne Cash. "I'll Still Be Me"...more fragile emotion and nuance for the people who say that this album is lacking in nuance. Here, Martina brings her voice down to a whisper as she sings about being "a normal girl from Small Town, Nowhere." The next track, "Beautiful Again," gets a little bluegrass-twangy and sounds like it's aiming for heavy radio play. "Everybody Does" is another stylistic nod to Roseanne Cash (it's particularly reminiscent of her electric guitar-driven work with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers on "Rhythm & Romance"). "House Of A Thousand Dreams" lowers the volume again and is another Mellencamp-style "working man with broken dreams" song. The closing track, "Love Land," could have come from the pen of Don Henley. Flip the gender in the lyrics and it's a page right out of his book. So there you have it...I don't know what the fuss is all about. Maybe some people feel disappointed by this album, but I'm not one of them.

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10 personas de un total de 10 encontraron útil la siguiente opinión:
- Beautiful

McBride's voice is again so beautiful and she tells all the stories in her song so well. Each one has its own place on the cd. Great.

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7 personas de un total de 7 encontraron útil la siguiente opinión:
- Not bad

I have had this CD playing on my computer at work and the first time through I thought, "Uh-Oh." The more it played the more I have started to love it. My favorite song by far is "I'll Still Be Me." That better be a single! I like tracks 7-11 a lot. "Trying to Find A Reason" is a duet with Keith Urban, but I didn't realize it was a duet until I looked inside the cover. Just sounds like a background vocalist, but the song is not bad.

Target's CD has a bonus DVD with it! Very nice!

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6 personas de un total de 6 encontraron útil la siguiente opinión:
- Her Best Work In Years

This is a 5 star release by the Best Voice in the history of

country music....At least in this fan's opinion...

To watch her grow as an artist, as I have, as a performer, which I have

is a joy!!! Now that she is producing her own work I am sure we expect this

quality of work to continue....

When I listen to a new CD and have trouble picking my favorite cut plus the ones I like as singles I know I am listening to really good work!

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6 personas de un total de 6 encontraron útil la siguiente opinión:
- Martina's best cd in a long time....

This is for sure Martina's best cd in a long time. Although "Timeless" (Her 2005 cd) was good, "Waking up Laughing" is classic Martina: pop-country songs done perfectly. Many subjects are reflected in this cd: Marriage, Love, Babies, heartbreak, and the world around us. On "Cry Cry ('Til the Sun shines)" Martina sings about life's hardships, and how we're all trying to get by. The song "I'll Still Be Me" reflects Martina's marriage, and how she strives to continue to be the same person she has always been despite the fame and riches that have come her way. On

"For These Times" Martina talks about how "the sound of someone's hearbreak is a soundbite at the newsbreak", a song that truly shows how our world is now, and how we must all show love for one another. Other songs such as "Beautiful Again" and "Love Land" reflect pregnancy outside of marriage with vastly different outcomes. And heartbreak songs "Tryin' to find a reason" and "Everybody does" show that sometimes you have to just let go, and that everyone hurts at the end of a relationship. Martina sings wonderfully on this cd, and you can hear many hits on this album. This album is a must-have for any Martina fan!

Choice tracks:

Cry, Cry ('till the sun shines)

Tryin' to find a reason

How I feel

I'll still be me

Beautiful Again

Love Land