Defending The Indefensible: Amy Grant

I also feel the need to mention her vocal performance on That's What Love Is For

"I Will Remember You", even though its central message is fairly optimistic, used to really depress me as a teen, as I had bad separation anxiety issues so losing touch w/ people was a shattering concept. great tune.

Obv I dont think AG was from Miami but just in production choices...Alfred, you seem like a freestyle enthusiast? Do you get the same impression?

A bit, yes. It'd have to be faster. Certainly those synths already sounded outdated in '91.

took me forever to notice the album and single mixes of "every heartbeat" are different but they're really different

Yep. Prefer the album version, thanks to that burbling sequencer.

same, for the same reason

also (fake?) horns

btw if "Hats" still bothers you, just imagine she's singing about 'condoms.'

i like "hats" now

(hats)

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

been bumping Cetera's "Next Time I Fall" a bunch lately and she's great on that. actually I've always liked her in general, including "I Will Remember You"

Tbh I had no idea until just now that Amy Grant did "Baby, Baby," which makes me feel like there are a lot of other songs from that era that I attribute wrongly.

But also this tidbit from earlier in the thread:

defned
I have a new identity should I wish to claim it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, September 14, 2003 9:24 AM (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Heart in Motion is the Christian Thriller, and one of the decade's best.

i am here at the ryman for the amy grant/vince gill christmas concert. hard for it not to feel like a superspreader event but i’m gonna try to enjoy myself for the last time ever regardless

rodney crowell is opening ;_;

Every one of my heartbeats belongs to you, Brad.

amy grant extolled the virtues of community more than once during this show so i hereby refer to her as comrade amy grant

I went to the Amy Grant/Vince Gill Christmas concert in 2011 (can't imagine it's changed all that much in the last decade) and it was quite a pleasant experience.

I know it's been said before in this thread but "Baby Baby" is a jam and I've always loved that song. Something about the drum sound/production in particular evokes my childhood. Same goes for a lot of 'soft rock'/adult contemporary from that period but this is a highlight.

Great read, this -- and a familiar voice is quoted within.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/11/29/amy-grant-kennedy-center-honors/

Got it on my second guess.

She rules:

Amy Grant announced that she & her husband Vince Gill are going to host a same-sex wedding on their farm for her niece. Amy is quoted as saying, “Jesus you just narrowed it down to two things: love God & love each other.” https://t.co/SznCI3trDg

— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) December 19, 2022

I think we can all agree now that "Baby Baby" is leagues better than "Smells Like Teen Spirit" right? It took awhile, but I'm glad society finally caught up

You're taken with the notion!

Had false hope that the tweet would have more likes than the inevitable tweet 2

Amy Grant getting soft-canceled for defying conservative evangelical expectations …the 90s are back! https://t.co/MqdEG1kJZH

— Ruth Graham (@publicroad) December 19, 2022

I mean I'm not shocked at the reaction (the Christian scene disowned her for far less than this decades ago), but once again, props for Amy.

Suddenly inspired to watch the Kenney Center Honors. (I'll fast forward thru the U2 segment.)

Then you'll miss the Bono-Amy duet on "Every Heartbeat."

Far more likely he takes a verse on "El Shaddai"

"Next Time I Fall", with a cameo from Peter Cetera who comes onstage and promptly beats him to death

does Vince Gill replace the Edge

Still have a very vivid memory from the one year I was forced to join a youth group and attending one Friday night meeting where three girls in the group tearfully yanked the tape from the spools of their Amy Grant cassettes and dramatically threw them in the garbage for "going secular".

I'm glad it hurt them personally

ever since the day
you threw my tape in trashcan

In the "Rednecks and Bluenecks" book Rodney Crowell talks about how Vince Gill's values were actually pretty liberal but that he identified as a Republican because they were the Jesus team.

I legit liked "Everywhere I Go" and "Wise Up." Strong songs. I am not religious or Christian at all but those are solid pieces of music.

three girls in the group tearfully yanked the tape from the spools of their Amy Grant cassettes and dramatically threw them in the garbage for "going secular"

It's what Jesus would have wantd.

*wanted

*wanded

Eric's simple, but he's no fool.

Alfred's a wonderful counselor, a lord of life, lord of Soto

https://i.imgur.com/FIdmzrn.gif

Fat Baby is an awesome song

[Outro]
He's just a fat, fat, fat, fat, fat, fat, fat
Fat, fat, fat, fat, fat, fat, fat
Fat, fat, fat, fat, fat, fat, fat
Baby

"He's just a faaa...
He's just a fat little baby!
Wa, wa, waaaaa..."