Amy Grant, "Heart in Motion"

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Ahh...the benign face of Christianism. Amy is the Laura Bush of Song: perky, mild, smarter than her husband, unbearable if you hang out with them too long.

Anyway, five singles, four of which hit the Top 10, all of them models of workmanlike mainstream pop. "I Will Remember You" has an unexpected emotional tug; in "Every Heartbeat"Amy tells us she's simple but she's no fool. In "Good For Me" we find out she's a closet nympho: her guy likes to drive "like Mario Andretti." But if he ever tries to leave, she'll make sure to love him with the sweetest of devotion.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

BABY BABY

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

actually the christian community really made a stink about her going secular. plus, didn't she at some point get a, gasp, divorce? not too cool in the eyes of the lord.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

I never liked it that much, but mostly due to Lead Me On being such a high peak to fall from.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

"actually the christian community really made a stink about her going secular. plus, didn't she at some point get a, gasp, divorce? not too cool in the eyes of the lord. "

Chances are that her husband wasn't the race car driver.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

If I remember right, she dumped Steven Curtis Chapman for Vince Gill. I would too. Vince's eyes are *dreamy!*

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

I know it is uberuncool to say so, but her music is not without a certain catchiness.

There's a pretty cool synth bass part in the song "Everywhere I go."

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

If her music works, it's because The Lord Speaks Through Her.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

OMG OMG OMG OMG, I have been waiting for a thread to fly the Baby Baby flag!

Fucking. Perfect. Song.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

"Baby Baby," yeah.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

"Baby Baby" is really wretched and useless. My only positive memory of it is being at a girl's house where she put the "Baby Baby" video on and most of the people there breathlessly gathered around the television to watch and sing along, so John Justen and I ran to the tape deck across the room, put in "The Days Of Swine And Roses" by My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, cranked up the volume and began stomping around the basement shouting "CHRISTIAN ZOMBIE VAMPIRES!!!!!" at the tops of our lungs.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

The Christian theodicy accepts good and evil, Dan.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

I now have removed you from the top of my fave ILM'ers list Dan.

Sorry.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

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.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

That God-damned keyboard solo in the bridge?!

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

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

I can't imagine her song remixed and with an appended Ol Dirty Bastard vocal.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

Amy Grant could probably kick MLWTTKC's asses.

She'd probably be Dido today, no?

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

err, MLWTTKK

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Um, didn't Dido do a song over an Eminem backing track? Surely that counts as a "hip hop influence"?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Other way around. Eminem sampled Dido for "Stan."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

The closest thing to Amy Grant's mainstream material today would be Disney Radio. And even in 1991, she was about 15 years older than anyone on Disney Radio.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

(xp) But doesn't Dido have vaguely trip-hoppish elements to her songs?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

if by "vaguely trip-hoppish" you mean slow and including bass guitar, than sorta.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

Not what I meant, but then I don't actually know the Dido catalog all that well. I'm basically remembering reviews I've read.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 22,500 for dido trip-hop.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

(Not that that's a fair measuring stick, by any means, but still.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 137,000 for dido heavy metal
Results 1 - 10 of about 95,000 for dido drum n bass
Results 1 - 10 of about 54,600 for dido ska-punk

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 8,290 for dido experimental horse music

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

"Sculpted by producers Rollo (her brother) and techno-scientist Youth, No Angel is dream-pop mixed with Portishead-esque trip-hop; the results are mid-tempo ballads that would feel at home in Seal's neighbourhood."

"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.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

ILM is DYING

― Felix Leiter (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

It's no All Fall Down by the 77s.

― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

yeah fair enough. I wasn't really arguing that strongly anyways--the only songs of hers I've heard are "White Flag" and "Thank You," so I'm hardly one to talk. I just thought those search results were funny.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

So, no one's suggested which Amy Grant song Eminem should sample. My vote's for the synth-bass part in "Every Heartbeat."

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

i can't remember any of her other songs, but this one is cccccclassic

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

Which one? Heart in Motion is the name of the album. It's also a lyric from "Baby Baby" ("ever since the day you put my heart in motion...").

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

Oddly classic, I have to admit.

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.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

My red blood runs true blue, and every hearbeat belongs to you...

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

Everytime my eyes skim past this thread title, I think that it's another Husker Du thread.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

Dud. Goes without saying, yet it's being said. Again. Dud.

― maria b (maria b), Thursday, 14 July 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

Classic of course! Way better than "All Fall Down" by the 77s, which has one great song in "Ba Ba Ba Ba", but "Heart"'s got, like, 10. Not least of which is "How Can We See That Far," which nobody ever mentions but is one of the scariest, most clear-eyed commitment songs ever, and whose scary clear-eyedness would soon be borne out in Amy's real romantic entanglements. But yeah, the whole thing's great, except maybe "I Will Remember You" and the Jesus song at the end.

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Thursday, 14 July 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)

Of course this is totally crass of me, but I'll pump my review, which is, granted, not uncontested, particularly by the Freakonomics guys.

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Thursday, 14 July 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)

My only positive memory of it is being at a girl's house where she put the "Baby Baby" video on and most of the people there breathlessly gathered around the television to watch and sing along, so John Justen and I ran to the tape deck across the room, put in "The Days Of Swine And Roses" by My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, cranked up the volume and began stomping around the basement shouting "CHRISTIAN ZOMBIE VAMPIRES!!!!!" at the tops of our lungs.

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..

― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 14 July 2005 02:50 (twenty years ago)

STOP Forrrrr aminute

― Jimmy Mod Is Sick of Being The Best At Everything (ModJ), Thursday, 14 July 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

...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.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 14 July 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

I'll bet her twat smells like Banana Bread.

― maria b (maria b), Thursday, 14 July 2005 04:11 (twenty years ago)

haha what the fuck??

― g e o f f (gcannon), Thursday, 14 July 2005 04:14 (twenty years ago)

Wow. Banana bread?

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

"Dud. Goes without saying, yet it's being said. Again. Dud"

You, ma'am, are an apostate.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

You have ruined banana bread forever.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

I'll take Amy Grant over Samantha Fox any day. I can picture me and her walking hand in hand on the beach after Community Bible study......

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.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

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this album changed my life

― billstevejim, Thursday, 18 August 2011 06:03 (fourteen years ago)

i decided that i really hate the song "hats" but otherwise this record is perfect

― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Thursday, 18 August 2011 06:06 (fourteen years ago)

Brad Nelson likes this.

― buzza, Thursday, 18 August 2011 06:13 (fourteen years ago)

two years pass...

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

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 03:05 (eleven years ago)

i like "hats" now. i'm no fool

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 03:05 (eleven years ago)

Just popping in to apologize for killing the other thread with my cut rate pop historian schtick

― what goes in vegans stays in vegans (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 05:41 (eleven years ago)

I'll bet her twat smells like Banana Bread.

― maria b (maria b)

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 11:12 (eleven years ago)

one year passes...

My red blood runs true blue
But my twa...

― Freedom, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 13:39 (ten years ago)

nine months pass...

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

surprisingly i kinda love this

― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 29 April 2016 19:08 (nine years ago)

too much tori not enough amy of course

― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 29 April 2016 19:09 (nine years ago)

in the middle of talking about this on facebook i discovered this arsenio hall performance/interview and wow amy is such a class act. she wasn't going to put "ask me" on the record bc she didn't want to "exploit her friend's experience" but then that friend requested that it be on the record. ;_;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEdFSvV3UJA

― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 29 April 2016 19:37 (nine years ago)

two years pass...

Brad

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 2 June 2018 19:56 (seven years ago)

"Galileo" should've been a single

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 2 June 2018 19:57 (seven years ago)

yep

― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Saturday, 2 June 2018 21:13 (seven years ago)

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

― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 2 June 2018 23:38 (seven years ago)

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

― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 2 June 2018 23:42 (seven years ago)

that coat!

― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Sunday, 3 June 2018 00:04 (seven years ago)

two years pass...

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

― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Sunday, 6 December 2020 03:13 (five years ago)

"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, 6 December 2020 18:01 (five years ago)

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.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 6 December 2020 18:11 (five years ago)

That's a story and a half right there.

― On average, this critic grades 8.3 points lower than other critics (Eric H.), Sunday, 6 December 2020 21:47 (five years ago)

Indeed

― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 December 2020 21:49 (five years ago)

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!

― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 6 December 2020 21:50 (five years ago)

omg thank you for sharing that albert

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 6 December 2020 22:03 (five years ago)

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

― aphoristical, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 19:36 (five years ago)

eleven months pass...

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

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 November 2021 17:25 (four years ago)

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.

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 November 2021 17:27 (four years ago)

eight months pass...

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

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 August 2022 00:38 (three years ago)

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

― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 August 2022 01:50 (three years ago)

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?

― birdistheword, Tuesday, 16 August 2022 02:12 (three years ago)

NEXT TIME I FAAAALLLL

― Weltanschauung Dunston (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 16 August 2022 05:23 (three years ago)

one year passes...

Amy Grant, always and forever.

― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 November 2023 15:30 (two years ago)

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

― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 November 2023 15:31 (two years ago)

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.

― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 26 November 2023 15:43 (two years ago)

I streamed it all morning yesterday!

― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 November 2023 15:44 (two years ago)

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

― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 November 2023 15:49 (two years ago)

ten months pass...

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

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 October 2024 23:09 (one year ago)

"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

― ivy., Monday, 14 October 2024 23:29 (one year ago)

give us strength to try once more

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 October 2024 23:40 (one year ago)

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

― smears for fears (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 15 October 2024 01:05 (one year ago)

and why not?

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 October 2024 02:01 (one year ago)

That's what loop is for

― Vinnie, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 15:07 (one year ago)

one month passes...

“how can we see that far” is a miracle

― ivy., Wednesday, 20 November 2024 20:30 (one year ago)

^^ that's what ivy's for

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 November 2024 20:31 (one year ago)

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

― her pal Santa falls to the floor (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 20 November 2024 21:53 (one year ago)

five months pass...

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

― ivy., Monday, 19 May 2025 19:52 (eight months ago)

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

― ivy., Monday, 19 May 2025 19:53 (eight months ago)

Great news!

So, Amy was good for you.

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 May 2025 20:22 (eight months ago)

xp that's nice to hear :)

― five six seven, eight nine ten, begin (map), Monday, 19 May 2025 20:35 (eight months ago)

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/36/9d/14/369d1434bd7e7bfef83f72ba16a9c350.jpg

― Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 20 May 2025 17:26 (eight months ago)

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