Martina
RCA - RCA
Martina McBride
Release date: 2003-09-30
Audio CD
Adult Contemporary, Contemporary Country, Country, Country & Western, Country-Pop, New Traditionalist, Pop
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
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Martina
Date undefinedMartina Mcbride has an absolutely beatuful voice--as she shows on "Over the Rainbow." Unfortunately, however, the majority of the songs that she chose for "Martina" are way too shmalzy for my taste. I much prefer some of her earlier releases like "The Way That I Am."
Martina
Date undefinedI liked the single okay -- a glossy but propulsive gal-power anthem called "This One's For The Girls" -- but with the exception of a tune or two, the rest of this album is really just a bit much. Her soul-styled glissandos are a real turnoff, particularly on tracks like "How Far" and "When You Love Me," and almost every song on here is horribly overwritten, and horribly over-obvious. All these songs about Everywoman and Everywoman's interior monologues and self-helpy struggle for self-affirmation... Geez, louise... Doesn't anyone in Nashville still believe in just writing catchy, twangy little songs that the folks at home can can sing along to and enjoy? That's the stuff I like, and the stuff that's kept me interested in Country for over thirty years... not all this high-concept glitziness and the big, loud pop arrangements.
This is one of McBride's most "pop" albums, and her newer fans will probably love it... This is pretty much along the same lines as her other recent work. But there's little here to please an old-fashioned country fan like me. (Axton)
Martina
Date undefinedLove this CD. Especially Martina's song: "In my daughter's Eyes". Bought as a gift for my daughter who recently gave birth to her first daughter. Thanks!!!!!!
