Amy Grant, "Heart in Motion" - C/D?

Allow me to quote Pat O'brien...so. fucking. hot.

I really do feel like she came at the end of an era, in terms of the production and instrumentation of her songs being completely free of both hip-hop AND rock influences. It's really hard for me to imagine someone like Amy Grant being as wildly popular now as she was back then with that model.

She'd probably be Dido today, no?

"Mixed with trip-hop beats, sweeping orchestral backdrops and acoustic guitar, the British vocalist clings to melancholy through 11 tracks that struggle to break from the sound she cultivated on “No Angel,” which sold millions of copies."

"Like Orton, Dido injects a touch of highly accessible trip-hop into her sound, as on the moody, clever "See You When You're 40," with its loping, funky groove, or "Who Makes You Feel," with its evocative, atmospheric samples."

"Already garnering lots of rave reviews and comparisons to Sinead O'Connor, Sarah McLachlan, The Cranberries' Dolores O'Riordan and Lisa Stansfield, Dido's trip-hop-laden pop is likely to make waves in the U.S."

"The quasi trip-hop beat on "See You When You're 40" adds to this song's luster."

"The New York Times feature review that same day observed that the album’s songs “revolve around love that won’t let go… Dido’s voice sounds mournful, steeped in the melancholy where trip-hop meets British folk songs.”"

FROM DIDO HERSELF:

If I were to force you to boil down your own style to one phrase, what would that be?

You can't force me to do that, because I haven't been able to do it for two years. I came up with a really good one the other day ... I can't remember what it was. I finally thought, "Well, maybe that's what it is." D'you know what I mean? Wait... Oh! In fact, it was using that trip-hop thing. It's trip-hop with good songs.

I associate this song with the Divinyls "I Touch Myself". They were both hits when I started my first sock monkey record store clerk job.

hah! I clicked on this thread remembering my Baptist childhood friends used to play Amy Grant records all the time, and thinking about how, despite this, I was soon listening to MINISTRY..

This isn't as odd as a lot of people make it out to be. I had several Amy Grant albums in my collection at the same time I had Ministry, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Slick Rick, 2 Live Crew, etc. Teenagerdom is all about being scatterbrained.

You, ma'am, are an apostate.

Every Heartbeat Belongs To You has spent many, many hours stuck in my head. The Baby Baby contingent has always been more vocal, but us Every Heartbeat fans know the truth.

Amy, my red blood runs true blue for you.

Oh! I assumed "Heart in Motion" was the name of the song with that lyric. So yeah, "Baby Baby"! I'd probably remember other stuff from that album if I heard it, but I can recall "Baby Baby" in striking detail. And I haven't heard it in like 10 years.

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haha banana bread ha

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I WOULD LIKE JOHN D TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE GREATNESS OF "EVERY HEARTBEAT"

dude you're preaching to the choir here, "every hearbeat" is the shit and rules over "baby, baby" on every planet in the known universe

i know i loved "every heartbeat" when i was a kid and now i CAN'T REMEMBER HOW IT GOES ;_;

I'm simple but I'm no fool.

What the hell is with that huge blue shirt she wears in that video? Was that a thing in the early 90's? Looks like she borrowed it off David Byrne.

the heart in motion videos are strange affairs; i think each involves at least one scene of amy in front of a billowing backdrop

anyway i came here to post about how depressed i am that, on youtube, both "that's what love is for" (a great video that is like the best leftover ideas for an annie lennox video) and "i will remember you" (not much of a video but the song makes me cry until i am hyperaware of the bones in my face) are dogged in the comments by a lone anti-amy grant crusader, who has flagged every opposing comment as spam and has somehow accumulated up to 27 thumbs ups, so this person's hateful dogma is the only visible conversation beneath an amy grant video.

i mean, youtube comments occupy the bottom already, but i get sad and angry at this sort of restless, callous condemnation.

that should really read "27 thumbs up" but it's late and the internet has ruined me with the word "likes"

this album changed my life

that Arsenio appearance is so wild. 10 people to make one song.

also her coat, generally speaking I don't dwell much on people's clothes but that coat. also Arsenio asking A.G. about the Winans & criticism for doing secular music is a better interview question than I could reasonably expect to hear any interviewer pose to a musician in 2018

that coat!

hunky man in the "That's What Love is For" video

also that synth introduction!

I forgot how much I liked this song.

ONTO THE SPOTIFY PLAYLIST

"that's what love is for" was invented to make me break down crying while trying to buy toothpaste at cvs

I was a competitive athlete in my youth and the male model who starred in her early pop-crossover videos and I were teammates for our regional team that competed at the national level. He came out after high school but I felt it was kinda radical that they cast him in multiple of Amy's (a Christian Contemporary Icon!) videos as her love interest... I think they even tried to suggest that they were off-screen partners as well.

I haven't thought about this dude in many decades but I looked him up and he is still hunky! Lives in Miami now and still modeling.

That's a story and a half right there.

Indeed

I haven't thought about this dude in many decades but I looked him up and he is still hunky! Lives in Miami now and still modeling.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli)

He says hi!

omg thank you for sharing that albert

Grant's statistical domination on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Christian_Albums is pretty extraordinary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLVV2TaI4Wo

There are two versions of this video. One version has additional shots of Amy. One where she is in a giant, tall green dress. Another shot shows a black & white close up of Amy in a very retro-mod hair style.

when i start to sing the blues
you pull out my dancing shoes

Late Saturday night while on molly I asked my buddy to queue up the "Baby Baby" video.

Heard about this when the latest Dr. Strange movie came out. I wonder if she (or her management) would turn down a request to license her music on the same grounds used in the complaint?

NEXT TIME I FAAAALLLL

Amy Grant, always and forever.

I've cooled on "Galileo," I must admit, with sorrow.

did you get the recent live album from the Lead Me On tour? It's spectacular, and to contrast it with her earlier live record is really something - I like the earlier one, too, young AG has both a clarity of tone that the road sands down and an exuberance she trades for stardom. But the Lead Me On touring band is a wonder and the songs are better.

I streamed it all morning yesterday!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXZ3SPLlx9E

the experience of hearing "That's What Love is For" in a CVS.

"that's what love is for" was invented to make me break down crying while trying to buy toothpaste at cvs

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, December 6, 2020 1:01 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

give us strength to try once more

I once took a shower and played that on loop for 20 minutes

and why not?

That's what loop is for

“how can we see that far” is a miracle

^^ that's what ivy's for

I don't think I'd heard this one before!

god this is the 90s pop I loved as a pre-teen. this is lovely

"i will remember you" brought me to my knees today

context: i reconnected with my ex a few days ago. it was great. "true love is frozen in time / i'll be your champion and you will be mine" really hits

Great news!

So, Amy was good for you.

xp that's nice to hear :)

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