CD/Album/Music Review: Faith Hill - Breathe

 

Faith Hill's Breathe, released in 1999 was the album that crossed her over from Country to Pop music. I would say that she was more a hybrid than a total crossover act because the album did very much keep her country sound, but the big hits from the album, Breathe, and The Way You Love Me, were solidly in the category of adult-contemporary pop. Even for people like myself that are not that into country music, the country-sounding songs on the album are not extremely "twangy" like some country acts are, and thus people who get the album because of the song Breathe can enjoy the rest of them. Of course, in the days of streaming music (which was in its infancy when the album came out) can pick and choose which songs to buy without having to purchase the entire album. And, if you pay for an unlimited streaming service such as Amazon Music or one of the others, you can add whatever songs you like and leave off the ones you don't.

Overall, the album is very good. There are 13 songs in total, and is a good mix of her country sound and pop. Hill has a great voice, and while not every song on the album was a hit on the pop chart (I am not sure which songs charted on the country chart) all of the songs were very good, and better than a lot of what was on the pop chart in the late 90s/early 2000s and light years better than most of the pop music of today.