3/29/08

Faith Hill's Career

I will begin with an observation of the obvious which may strike some as too frank, however I intend to supply this information in an effort to help. First of all, Faith Hill's career is going no where. She's not quite a has been, though she might as well be one. So why is she going nowhere with her music? Why does it sound so contrived, so Hollyville? When female country stars reach the age Ms Hill has attained, they can do one of two things. They can pretend they are twenty, and come across as out of touch indefinitely stalled rich ladies who have too much money and too few people telling them anything but that they are the greatest, and produce the mediocrity we have been hearing from Mrs McGraw in the past few years, or they can accept reality and start singing their age. I remembering listening to Faith 's last recording and thinking, there is something missing here, but couldn't quite put my finger on it. Then it hit me --she's trying to look and sound like a much younger woman, and it's not working. Faith, who ever is writing your music, whoever is helping you make those decisions, you need to start singing more serious, more middle aged songs, like your husband does so well. You will see the results overnight. At your age, dying your hair blonde, and trying to sound like you're just this chipper little small town girl who is still amazed at your own success is just going to make you look older. You need an image make over, you need to look serious sound serious and be serious. You're too talented to flatter yourself out of allowing yourself to grow. H. Bun

1 comment:

BostonPat said...

I think you are way off the mark with Faith...just look at how sophiscated and 40ish she looked in that valentino dress at the Grammys...and the vintage dress at last year's ACM's..and just read the lyrics of Stealing Kisses, You Stay with Me, If You Ask, Like We Never Loved At All...all of these songs from Fireflies are very mature...check out Cry, Shadows, Wicked, Somewhere Down the Road, There You'll Be and I could go on and on...with a few minor exceptions like The Lucky One, which her good friend wrote, she has been very age appropriate in my opinion.. in fact, I would agrue just the opposite that her popularity has wanned (I think temporarily) because the younger audiences can't relate to songs like Stealing Kisses....she has embraced turning 40...and she is at a point where she can pick and chose what she wants to do...