Cry (Faith Hill album)

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Cry
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Studio album by
Faith Hill
ReleasedOctober 15, 2002 (2002-10-15)
RecordedLate 2001–2002
Studio
Genre
Length60:30
Label Warner Bros. Nashville
Producer
Faith Hill chronology
There You'll Be
(2001)		Cry
(2002)		 Fireflies
(2005)
Singles from Cry
  1. "Cry"
    Released: August 8, 2002
  2. "When the Lights Go Down"
    Released: November 18, 2002
  3. "Baby You Belong"
    Released: December 20, 2002 [2]
  4. "One"
    Released: April 7, 2003
  5. "You're Still Here"
    Released: April 28, 2003

Cry is the fifth studio album by American country music singer Faith Hill. It was released on October 15, 2002, via Warner Bros. Nashville. The album was Hill's attempt at expanding her crossover appeal that she had garnered with hits like "Breathe" and "The Way You Love Me". Hill co-produced the album along with Marti Frederiksen, Byron Gallimore, and Dann Huff. [3] [4]

Contents

Upon its release, Cry received mixed reviews from music critics, with Hill's decision to focus on pop and R&B influences while largely abandoning the country sound of her previous album being divided over. [5] [6] Despite this, the album went on break a record for the highest first week sales by a female country artist, debuting atop both the Billboard 200 and Top Country Albums chart with first week sales of 467,000 copies sold in its first week. It would go on to sell four million copies worldwide and was certified 2× Platinum by the RIAA, a moderate success compared to her previous album Breathe (1999), which was certified 8× Platinum.

Five singles in total were released. The title track, "Cry", was released in August 2002 and despite debuting at number 32 on the US Hot Country Songs, it only peaked at number 12, marking her lowest-peaking lead single to the format. Country radio was hesitant to play songs from the album and as such, follow-up singles released like "When the Lights Go Down" and "You're Still Here" failed to be successful. "One" was exclusively released to the adult contemporary format while "Baby You Belong" was released exclusively to Japan to promote the 2002 Disney film Lilo & Stitch . The album was negatively reviewed at country radio, with many programmers claiming Hill had "abandoned" the genre. [7] Hill was heavily compared to Celine Dion in terms of the move of genres, which was also negatively reviewed. [8]

At the 46th Annual Grammy Awards in 2004, the album received two nominations: Best Country Album and Best Female Country Vocal Performance for the title track, winning the latter award. Cry would later be ranked at number 179 on Billboard's Top 200 album of the 2000's decade. In a retrospective interview from 2005 while promoting her following album Fireflies (2005), Hill told Billboard that "it was definitely a different record," but that she is still "so proud of [the album]." [9] The album, along with works by fellow female artists LeAnn Rimes ( Twisted Angel ), Shania Twain (Up!), and Lee Ann Womack ( Something Worth Leaving Behind ), were seen as albums that struggled the most at country radio due to how they tried to appeal to both pop and country, but failed to have major success in either genre. Hill, in particular, was questioned if she was "selling out". [10]

Background

In 1999, Hill released her fourth studio album Breathe (1999). Commercially, the album was very successful, debuting atop both the Billboard 200 and Top Country Albums charts. [11] [12] It spawned crossover hits such as "Breathe", which satisfied both pop and country audiences, [13] and "The Way You Love Me", with the former becoming the number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100 Year-End list for 2000. This success was what led her to win the Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist award at the 2000 American Music Awards. [14] She also garnered a hit song from the 2001 Michael Bay-directed film Pearl Harbor, "There You'll Be", which became her most successful song in Europe. This success swayed Hill to make a more pop-friendly album. While she still stuck with her previous producers Byron Gallimore and Dann Huff, she also brought in Marti Frederiksen, who is most well-known for his work with Aerosmith, to produce the title track. With this record, Hill dived into genres such as gospel and R&B. [15]

Songs

The album opens up with the song "Free", which YouTuber Todd In The Shadows, in a retrospective review for the album, called "white woman funk". [16] Lyrically, Hill recalls having a "poor self-image as a child, and developing confidence thanks to faith and angelic comfort." [17] The title track, "Cry", was to initially have featured Steven Tyler of Aerosmith. [15] On "Cry", Hill sings about wishing a partner to display emotion after a breakup. [18] The Pink and Linda Perry penned song "If You're Gonna Fly Away" shows Hill singing about offering encouragement and prayer support; Hill's vocals in this song were compared to girl group En Vogue. [17] [15] "I Think I Will" and "Stronger" both show Hill singing about the recognition of inner strength; on the former song, she also sings about "wanting to make the world a better place". [19] [17] "Unsaveable" has a unique Motown-inspired groove. [15] "This Is Me", a song that has influences of country rock, [18] has a similar distinct sound to Jessica Andrews' 2001 hit song "Who I Am" most likely due to both the songs sharing the same writer, Troy Verges. [19] On the song "One", she takes inspiration from Barbra Streisand; [15] lyrically, it speaks of longing to restore intimacy in a "too-busy" relationship. [17] "Baby You Belong" lyrically points to either a romantic relationship or a mother-child relationship due to its vagueness. [19] The closing track, "You're Still Here" is a heartbreak song where Hill delivers the words with "a crackle in her voice."; it is about a departed loved one that Hill feels nearby. [20] [17]

Singles

"Cry", the title track, was first issued on August 8, 2002 as a digital download to country radio. [21] It was officially released to the format on August 19, 2002, as the lead single to the album. [22] It debuted at number 32 on the US Hot Country Songs chart with less than four days of airplay, becoming Hill's then-highest debut and the highest debuting single of the year; [21] the record was broken when Shania Twain debuted at number 24 with "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!". Despite a strong debut, it only peaked at number 12 on September 21, 2002. [7] This, in turn, became her first lead single to miss the top ten; her previous lowest peaking lead single was with "Let's Go to Vegas" for It Matters to Me (1995), which peaked at number five on the October 21, 1995 issue. However, "Cry" proved to have much more success in the adult contemporary market, peaking atop the Adult Contemporary chart for 11 consecutive weeks. [23] Internationally, the song peaked at number three in Canada while reaching the top twenty in Hungary, New Zealand, Spain, Norway, and Romania. The Mike Lipscombe-directed music video would garner Hill two nominations at the 2003 CMT Flameworthy Awards for Video of the Year and Female Video of the Year.

The second single, "When the Lights Go Down", was released on November 18, 2002, as the second single to the album. [24] It debuted at number 53 the week of November 23, 2002, thanks in part to a performance at the 2002 CMA Awards. [25] It peaked at number 26 on the Hot Country Songs chart, becoming Hill's first single since "But I Will" back in 1994 to miss the top-twenty of the chart. [26] Exclusively released to German speaking Europe, it peaked at numbers 52 and 64 in Austria and Germany. The video would win the award for Hottest Female Video of the Year at the 2003 CMT Flameworthy Awards.

"Baby You Belong" was exclusively released to Japan on March 8, 2003. [27] It was released in the country to promote the 2002 Disney film Lilo & Stitch ; the song was included in the Japanese version's soundtrack. It failed to enter the charts there.

The fourth single, "One", was exclusively released to US adult and hot adult contemporary radio on April 7, 2003. [28] The song performed moderately well, peaking at number seven on the Adult Contemporary chart. [23] It also briefly charted at number 38 on the Adult Top 40 chart. [29]

"You're Still Here" was released on April 28, 2003, as the fifth and final song from the record. [30] It peaked at number 28 on the Hot Country Songs chart. [26]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 59/100 [5]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Billboard average [31]
Blender Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
E! Online B+ [5]
Entertainment Weekly B [32]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [33]
Mojo Star full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [34]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [35]
The Village Voice C [36]

Cry received mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 59, based on 8 reviews. [5] Chris Willman of Entertainment Weekly praised Hill for taking stylistic risks but conceded that the album "invites some of the criticism that will inevitably come its way." [32] Billboard wrote that "Cry is a confident effort, with Hill laying claim as queen of" pop-country, however the magazine also described the songs as "sometimes bland" and "repetitive." [31] AllMusic writer Robert L. Doerschuk was ambivalent towards the album's production, writing that "her established skills as a song interpreter are lost in all this sturm und drang and her voice, while undeniably powerful at its peak, doesn't have the range that allows most singers in this style... to at least milk the material." [4]

Rolling Stone found the album to be "contrived" and impersonal, with Barry Walters writing, "[Hill is] an expert in the yelps and sighs that signify pop passion, and what she lacks in personality she makes up for with power, professionalism and unfailing hooks." [35] Robert Hillburn of the Los Angeles Times was particularly critical, rating the album one-and-a-half stars out of four. "The songs ... are mediocre," he writes, "her vocals are rarely convincing, and the arrangements are ham-fisted." [33]

In a piece commemorating Cry's tenth anniversary, Billy Dukes of Taste of Country theorized that most of the polarizing opinions on the album were a result of the "building tension" at the time between country "purists" and listeners who liked Hill's contemporary pop influences. [6]

Commercial performance

Cry debuted at number one on both the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and the all-genre Billboard 200 chart dated November 2, 2002. The album sold over 472,000 copies in its first week, marking the highest first week sales of Hill's career and also setting a new record for the largest first-week sales figure by a solo female country artist since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991; [37] the record was later broken just a few weeks later when fellow country singer Shania Twain would debuted at number one with over 874,000 copies sold first week for her 2002 album Up!. It would only spend one week at number one on the Billboard 200 and only spent 39 weeks total, Hill's second shortest chart run with a solo album. On the country charts, it would spend three non-consecutive weeks at number one and overall 63 weeks on the chart to date; Cry is one of only two of Hill's solo albums to not spend at least 100 weeks on the country charts.

Track listing

Cry track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Free"
4:38
2."Cry" Angie Aparo
3:45
3."One"
  • Gallimore
  • Hill
5:20
4."When the Lights Go Down"
4:05
5."Beautiful"
  • Gallimore
  • Hill
4:41
6."Unsaveable"
  • Bramlett
  • Bobby Terry
  • Huff
  • Hill
3:51
7."Baby You Belong"
  • Huff
  • Hill
4:08
8."If You're Gonna Fly Away"
  • Gallimore
  • Hill
3:48
9."Stronger"
  • Gallimore
  • Hill
4:13
10."If This Is the End" Steve McEwan
  • Gallimore
  • Hill
4:55
11."This Is Me"
  • Lindsey
  • Verges
  • Gallimore
  • Hill
5:04
12."Back to You"
  • Derek Bramble
  • Lindy Robbins
  • Huff
  • Hill
4:35
13."I Think I Will"
  • Huff
  • Hill
4:08
14."You're Still Here"
  • Gallimore
  • Hill
3:19
Total length:60:30
Japanese edition bonus track
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
15."Wicked"McEwan
  • Gallimore
  • Hill
4:04
Total length:64:34

Personnel

Performance credits
Music credits
Production credits
Visual and imagery

Charts

Certifications and sales

Certifications and sales figures for Cry
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [64] Gold35,000^
Canada (Music Canada) [65] Platinum100,000^
Japan (RIAJ) [66] Gold100,000^
Portugal (AFP) [67] Gold20,000^
United States (RIAA) [68] 2× Platinum2,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Awards

Grammy Awards

YearWinnerCategory
2002"Cry" Best Female Country Vocal Performance

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