Album Review – Tim McGraw and Faith Hill’s “The Rest of Our Life”
Look, I see what they were going for here. The problem is what they were going for was just not very good. This album is a concert play; not your typical studio record. Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are on this massive “Soul2Soul” tour together, and when folks have been to the concert, they want to buy Tim and Faith the home game. So that’s what they made. As we all know, touring is where the real money is for these massive superstars these days. This record is just a way to reinforce what is happening on stage.
And who is going to go to Tim McGraw and Faith Hill concerts? It’s certainly not the hip kids or the shit kickers. It’s 40-something and 50-something couples who will be into the type of mature love bird/adult contemporary material The Rest of Our Life delivers. They come home after the concert a little tipsy, pay the babysitter or settle into the empty nest, and then have middle aged missionary sex before falling asleep in each others arms at a devilish 12:02. Tim and Faith singing sappy love songs as they gaze in each other’s eyes is just the lubricant for the bored Cialis set.
We wondered when it was announced why Tim McGraw would part ways with Scott Brochetta’s Big Machine Records after things had been going so swimmingly for the last few years. My guess is ol’ Scotty got a whiff of the demos of this thing and said, “Love ya Tim, but you’re going to have to go elsewhere to peddle this.” Beyond the background noise production that in moments veers towards Enya—and was primarily handled by McGraw and Hill themselves (which is never a good idea with a project like this)—the songwriting here is surprisingly subpar, and by a country music power couple known for their propensity to find the best material lurking in the publishing houses of Music Row and singing the hell out of it. Perhaps nobody can write a solid duet anymore.
It’s really quite shocking how sedated some of the lines and songs are in this record. In concert, these are the type of songs you can’t wait for the performer to get through so they can play the hits. At one point in the opening title track, Tim McGraw is singing, “If one gray hair shows, I’ll be fine. If my waistline grows, I’ll be fine.” Mature material is okay, and even welcome in an environment where most performers are hyper-obsessed with youth. But the sappy, mom and dad factor on this record is almost unbearable. Somehow Ed Sheeran had a hand in writing the title track, and apparently that was enough for folks to think it is “relevant.”
There isn’t even those one or two good songs on The Rest of Our Life for Tim McGraw to hang his black plastic cowboy hat on like even the worst records of his career, or big moments for Faith Hill’s voice to shine like we know it can. Another surprising failing of the record is how some of the songs don’t really work for the range of the other singer. Tim will be tasked to sing way too high in a glass-shattering range, or Faith will be way too low making her tone almost masculine. The first single from the album “Speak To A Girl” was unflattering to Faith in that way, and it already stalled out at #19 on the Country Airplay charts before getting yanked.
What’s ultimately so frustrating about The Rest of Our Life is how good this record could have been. Tim McGraw has been on a roll lately as one of the bright spots in the mainstream, finding and recording songs of real depth and meaning, giving them a bit more twang than what is trendy, and then telling radio to play them, which they’ve been willing to do. Faith Hill was always at home with this dreamy soap opera style, but after so long without a new record, this could have been a serious comeback with years of pent-up material ready to present to the world with her hubby singing harmony. But instead of top shelf material, The Rest of Our Life feels populated with what was left on the cutting house floor. There’s just never a “moment.”
It’s worth saying that for what The Rest of Our Life tries to do in the production, it’s done well, meaning it attempts to set a certain mood, and accomplishes this with sonic tapestries and extended forays into ethereal moments. You may think with titles like “Telluride” and “Cowboy Lullaby,” you’ll get a lot of rough and rugged textures here. Quite the opposite is the case, but both of these songs include elongated instrumentals that you’re just not used to hearing from Tim and Faith, or really anyone in the mainstream. And though the songs and even the playing may not be especially remarkable, for the mood this music looks to make, it warrants accreditation.
A fool would be one who thought Tim McGraw and Faith Hill’s long-awaited duet record would be some landmark accomplishment. But we at least thought there would be something worth salvaging here. Instead it feels very much like a side project and a misstep for both artists, regardless of a few sweet moments and the sexy time it may brew for some couples. It’s background music at best, destined to be seriously forgotten in pretty short order for the legacies both artists have forged on their own.
November 20, 2017 @ 9:19 am
I went to a Tim & Faith concert this year and the crowd is a lot younger than you’re giving them credit for. Sure there are plenty of middle aged people, but I saw mostly 20 and 30-somethings who grew up on their music, myself included.
November 20, 2017 @ 2:14 pm
I’m with Andrew on this one, as a 26 year old, I can attest to the fact that a lot the folks in my generation love Tim and Faith. I’ve seen them twice, and both times the crowd was more in line with 20-somethings and early 30’s than anything else
November 20, 2017 @ 2:14 pm
I do think the album is really disappointing though.
December 6, 2017 @ 11:10 am
I just listened to this CD yesterday. I hated it. I didn’t finish listening to a single song. I am a huge fan of Faith’s, I have everything she did, and was really looking forward to her return. I did not like the long instrumentals, I did not like the weak songs, I did not like the misuse of their voices. I am in my early 60’s and hated everything about this music. so disappointed.
November 20, 2017 @ 3:40 pm
My words on who this album would appeal to are being a little misconstrued, and I’ll take partial blame for that from putting the cart before the horse.
What I was trying to say is that this record is meant to appeal to older married couples, and I stand by that. When you have songs talking about graying hairs and growing waistlines—and all the other themes these two delve into here—I think that is a very fair assessment. I still think that will also be the primary demographic who will attend the concerts, though some may just also be Tim McGraw fans. But if I was a Tim McGraw fan from his last few albums and early stuff, and then went to a concert where the cornerstone of the material performed was from this record, I would be disappointed.
I should have been more clear that the album may beget the older concert crowd, not necessarily vice versa. But I think the point is still valid: this is music for older married couples. Which is not necessarily wrong. It’s just not very well executed, or country.
November 23, 2017 @ 2:58 pm
I think Tim’s fans were disappointed in the concert, but not because of the music from this album. He sang his top hits – they just wanted more songs from him. The only songs they sang from this album were Speak To A Girl, Break First, and Telluride. Speak To A Girl and Break First were crowd favorites and aren’t songs for an older crowd. Neither is Telluride which was amazing live because of the instrumentals. Really – the only songs that are geared toward an older, established couple along the lines of an Angry All The Time (another crowd pleaser on the tour) are The Bed We Made and maybe Damn Good At Holding On – both pretty good Lori McKenna songs. The gray hair and waistline verse is from a song about a young couple starting out.
Agree with you that a few of the songs seem out of range for them. I don’t think this can be called a duets album, though. I think it’s more of a vehicle to launch Faith back into the public. She sounds amazing on Love Me To Lie, which feels really out of place. Sounds more like a movie score than a country album track.
November 23, 2017 @ 2:30 pm
Agree – I was surprised by the number of twenty-somethings around me at Tim and Faith’s shows.
November 20, 2017 @ 9:22 am
Looking forward to your review of Walker Hayes’ “Shut Up Kenny.”
November 20, 2017 @ 10:03 am
Holy shit, is it ever bad. If you think that’s bad, you should YouTube “Face on My Money”. It’s so bad, he actually had to be putting forth an effort.
Can you also believe that Walker Hayes used to make decent, tolerable pop country? Pants was pretty good.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tG9BMnupREQ This song was catchy and clever. It’s hard to believe this is the same person.
November 20, 2017 @ 9:25 am
Typical crappy pop song. Nearly any person could write this crap in 20 minutes. Faith Hill is thin and attractive, but she still weighs more than ol’ Timmy. He needs to take a break from the yoga.
November 20, 2017 @ 9:31 am
I would rather just listen to “If we were vampires” on repeat than any of the songs on this album. Jason Isbell says everything that Tim and Faith try go say in a whole album with just one amazing song.
November 20, 2017 @ 11:30 am
The difference being Jason Isbell has something to say, where as some performers are content to just say anything.
November 20, 2017 @ 9:36 am
Don’t know this record ….but from your review , Trigger , it just may be the kind of record we can expect from today’s country ‘stars ‘ down the line. They are singing unsubstantial fluff right now . Their fan following expects nothing more from them so they will lap up something like what the McGraws are peddling here later on. Don Williams and many others had catalogues of terrific songs of substance …and to his last recordings Don was true to that commitment to finding great songs that refelcgted and said something . I’m not sure in this ‘ Borschetta” era of manufactured ‘stars’ that we’ll see better material from most of them as their careers wind down . In fact we can probably expect even more pandering .
December 6, 2017 @ 11:15 am
Sadly, I agree. I have huge country music libraries of Alan Jackson, George Strait, Lefty, Chris Ledoux, George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, Jamey Johnson – I can go on and on. Chris Stapleton has entered the mainstream music. His latest two albums are subpar in my opinion. I’m hugely disappointed in this Tim/Faith album. Don Williams, wonderful music.
November 20, 2017 @ 10:20 am
I’ve never liked his “black plastic cowboy hat”. I would never pay money to see either of them and I’ll never buy what they’re trying to sell, though I did like Indian Outlaw.
November 20, 2017 @ 10:21 am
The album is background music. Perfect for daytime soaps, rom-coms & shopping channels.
I don’t think the album will help Tim McGraw or Faith Hill long term.
Better Music:
Gwen Sebastian – Once Upon A Time In The West: Act I – Album – Released (11/17)
Featured artists: Ashley Monroe & Miranda Lambert
Courtney Lynn – Pretty Things – Album – Released (11/17)
On repeat: “Gold Turns To Rust”
November 20, 2017 @ 10:45 am
I’m a fairly big fan of Tim McGraw. The first country album I ever purchased was All I Want in 1995 when I was in middle school. So I’m favorably disposed toward his output, but this album is so boring that it’s difficult to listen to in one sitting. I was prepared for that, based upon the two singles. “Cowboy Lullaby” is the only song I like, but it’s not exactly itching my ears for repeated listens. That said, the album is not egregious, thank God, and will, as you say, soon be forgotten.
November 20, 2017 @ 10:54 am
Garth (Brooks) and Trisha (Yearwood), sometime in 1999-2001, recorded a batch of songs for a potential duet album but it remained unreleased due to their different labels and other reasons. I’ve always wondered if those tracks will ever be released. I’ve also wondered what songwriters were counting on some mailbox money as a result. And then Garth and Trisha record a Christmas ‘duet’ album? T’is not the same… but I digress… now a Tim and Faith duet album? I’ve already lost interest in this too.
November 21, 2017 @ 12:37 pm
Good point about the songwriters. You’d think that if Garth cared as much about writers as he claims to he’d want to get material from new writers out there as quickly as feasible rather than releasing one anthology after another and padding the bank accounts of those who have already become millionaires as a result of his album sales.
December 6, 2017 @ 11:17 am
Love Trisha – Garth, done deal. I’m not impressed with his new stuff. He just doesn’t have it anymore.
November 20, 2017 @ 11:37 am
Trigger, what are your thoughts on the Lori McKenna co-write, “Damn Good At Holding On”? I think out of the two cuts she has on the record, this is the better one – I would also love to hear Lori herself cut it. “Cowboy Lullaby” and “Sleeping in the Stars” are also decent IMO.
November 20, 2017 @ 3:44 pm
“Damn Good At Holding On,” “Telluride,” and “Cowboy Lullaby” are probably the most solid tracks on the record. But I still just don’t feel they rise to the bar McGraw has set on his most recent records for finding really great songs. “Diamond Rings and Old Barstools” and “Meanwhile Back at Mama’s” are better than any single song on this entire record in my opinion.
November 23, 2017 @ 3:06 pm
Agree 100%. I think Lori’s song The Bed We Made had potential but it falls apart with the chorus production and would have been better with a bit more flesh in the chorus. I think the lyrics on Break First are pretty damn good.
November 20, 2017 @ 1:03 pm
I went to the Tim/Faith concert this past summer. Between Faith over-extending her vocals and the deafening electric guitar solos, it felt like a major misstep. I ended up leaving before the show ended.
I think the worst lyric written in the past year is “You’ve got to respect your mama, respect the hell out of her.” What?
November 20, 2017 @ 1:54 pm
How is it offensive?
Could it be because it’s a woman saying it?
November 21, 2017 @ 12:38 pm
He didn’t say it was offensive, he said it was bad.
November 23, 2017 @ 3:09 pm
As a woman, I saw it as a play on “beat the hell out of her”. A common term used when referring to abusive relationships. I think young people and women got more out of this song than the main stream.
November 20, 2017 @ 2:05 pm
Who said it was offensive? It has nothing to do with a woman or man saying it. Usually, when I am talking about respecting my mother, I do not say “respect the hell out of her.” It just seems like an oxymoron.
November 20, 2017 @ 3:31 pm
Right? My mom would be mad if I phrased it like that. Ergo, it would be disrespectful.
November 23, 2017 @ 4:50 pm
Play on words…think “beat the hell out of her” as common phrase one hears about abusive relationships. Mama…don’t think they mean mother literally, but the woman in someone’s life –
girlfriend, wife. Young songwriters.
November 20, 2017 @ 2:39 pm
Tim and Faith can have their pick of ANY song by ANY songwriter in the country.
And they pick THIS?
hahahahaha
Yes, they’re attractive people. They have big hearts. They’re livin’ the money looks and protein shake dream.
So maybe the problem is that they’re just not that smart. Maybe they ARE this shallow. Maybe this is all they got, this is as far as they can go.
Which is a major pity, because Tim’s work with those Kleenex Songs for Men he’s been putting out (“How I’ll Always Be”, etc) can be good. Faith, I don’t know. I thought she was just a looker, no real substance.
But they were involved in The Blind Side movie, and I thought that meant they really had something on the ball.
Maybe not.
And yet, it’s disappointing. I feel like we could use some adult married people talking sense, in this day and age.
November 20, 2017 @ 5:48 pm
”Tim and Faith can have their pick of ANY song by ANY songwriter in the country.
And they pick THIS?”
This has been the mystery for me with 99 out of 100 acts Corncaster . With all of the absolutely amazing music around ….heaps of it in publishing vaults , they invariable pick the crappiest of the crap ….generic, pandering , forgettable pablum designed, seemingly , to be safe , inoffensive and/or just trendy . I know , I know its because all of the newer acts are expected to write or co-write their own stuff and for my money this may be THE worst thing that’s happened in terms of the quality of country music .EVERYBODY IS NOT A WRITER …especially if you haven’t spent years in the trenches honing your craft and learning from the greats . Sure , you get the odd young artist with the gift …but for God’s sakes GO AND FIND THE BEST SONGS YOU CAN FIND from REAL writers …veterans who’ve had repeated success ….record the BEST stuff while you listen and learn and become a writer yourself .
The age old advice given to newer writers is ” Take the first hundred songs you write – and THROW them away “…..cuz you are only just beginning at that point to get a handle on writing a great song .
But I digress …this doesn’t explain why The McGraws didn’t make informed decisions on this one . Faith even recorded ” The Secret Of Life ” ….one of the best ‘country’ songs ever , IMO , so damn… …she must have SOME idea of what a great song is supposed to sound like .
November 21, 2017 @ 6:26 am
“…Faith even recorded ” The Secret Of Life ” ….one of the best ‘country’ songs ever , IMO”
I was with you up to that sentence. God, I hate that song!
November 21, 2017 @ 9:21 am
Let’s see …..
“This KIss” ….or ” Secret Of Life ” …hmmm?
Whatever turns your crank I guess Razor .
” Secret Of Life” completely restored my faith in commercial country music at the time …..a song that actually said something , had an interesting arrangement and was completely universal .
“This Kiss” possibly the WORST piece of lyrical nonsense ever …in any genre …….
November 21, 2017 @ 10:03 am
Neither song is very good. But there’s nothing really country about “The Secret of Life”. I always thought the melody of that song was very awkward and clumsy and Faith’s voice sounds very rough on it.
November 21, 2017 @ 5:01 pm
well I hear you on faith’s voice …..never been my favourite no matter what she sang .
I think what I really loved about Secret O f Life was the smartness of it compared to so much stuff . I’ll give you that it isn’t country in a trad sense maybe …but it is in a substance and narrative , conversational sense . Its like we’re sitting at the bar with those guys getting to hear their conversation (like George Strait’s ‘ I Hate Everything ‘ ) and we relate cuz we’ve all had that conversation . The best country stuff shows us ourselves I think …no matter our age ( Don Williams ) . Not much new stuff does that very well . I also love Gretchen Peters’ own version of the song ( she’s the writer ). But each to his own my friend .
November 21, 2017 @ 1:20 am
With songs like Truck Yeah and Looking for that girl, i don’t think Tim McGraw has good taste for songs (at least the last ten years)
November 21, 2017 @ 9:24 am
You have to look at his album cuts DimM . He finds some of the BEST stuff around each time out . No ….most times it doesn’t get released to radio ( with exceptions as Trigger points out ) …..his radio stuff has been mostly ‘miss ‘ in the last years ….but yeah ….he has found some gems to include in album collections (‘ The Book Of John’ )
November 21, 2017 @ 12:34 pm
Just kidding.I love his earlier work (90’s stuff) but now i just really don’t care. I expected more from someone who covered Bruce Robison’s Angry All the Time (#1 radio single) and now at 50 years old he releases formulaic music with his retired wife.
November 20, 2017 @ 2:41 pm
pah tim and faith are that embarrassing couple in every movie ever I mean im sure they are wonderful people and that they love each other but they just come across as dopey at least thats my opinion it doesnt have to be yours but why is their relationship so public and I mean im sure that they dont act the way they do on stage my mate and I have a primarily non speaking relationship we certainly arent all juicy and flambouyant about it her nickname for me is “left” but its been so long I dont remember why but tim and faith just seem like they belong in a silly little b movie for Christians the way they come across and thats not trying to be mean just that they market their relationship and it just seems kinda dorky sugary and I think this album could have been so much more I havent heard very much of it yet so I dont wana say rude things but it is a missed opportunity not to age as gracefully as roy and dale evans did I remember seeing them do the happy anniversary song on hee haw they just seemed so graceful and elegant and they didnt seem to be marketing their relationship and their music together had a class and a maturity to it sadly missing here
November 20, 2017 @ 5:51 pm
Nailed it Spleen
November 20, 2017 @ 7:30 pm
thank you albert I mean im sure theyre wonderful people but sort of like blake and Miranda and now the girl from no doubt or more signifificantly thomsas thrett and his wife the relationship is just so so Hollywood esque and reporters are there and I always felt like it was just on the hokey side and all dolled up for the cameras and maybe part of the reason is because marriages fail all the time now and people wan to see happy marriage so celebrity marriages are more a talking point now because of how uncommon successful marriages are and when I grew up watching dale evans and roy and gene and randoplh scott marriage was sainted and I knew I woukd only ever marry once and id be stuck with her forever that was the way it was and im so glad I took it seriously so roy and dale didnt seem so uncommon they seemed like normal people and now with so many divorcees not that thats a bad thing because a lot of people stayed in bad ones ideal marriages are the stuff of dreams now and famous people are already elevated a bit above common people which is a bit absurd but such is life I suppose but roy and dale and even George and tammy just seemed so real and not all the glamour they just had this air about them and of course George and tammy were splitsville but I still hold them as the golden standard for a country music marriage to me faith and tim will never be like George and tammy im sure their marriage is stronger but George and tammys songs they recorded were so mature and profound and not so hokey pokey aw shucks like some hallmark movie or a dime store novel
November 21, 2017 @ 6:27 am
Please use punctuation.
December 6, 2017 @ 11:22 am
Garth is nauseatingly over the moon to Trisha in his shows. I like to see a strong man pay respect to his woman but come on.
November 23, 2017 @ 3:17 pm
They really aren’t public – only recently because of this album. They don’t spend anytime getting in magazines, etc. The only non-album promo time you hear anything about them is if someone posts on social media that they saw them at their kid’s high school football game on Friday night.
November 20, 2017 @ 2:52 pm
So now he has two songs called Telluride? I liked the first one at least
November 20, 2017 @ 3:54 pm
One interesting thing to me is whether this little detour will spell the end of Tim McGraw as a mainstream radio sure thing. This stupid system really frowns on acts disappearing for a period of time or veering off into unfamiliar territory. It really always has if you look at it so it’s nothing new but with McGraw being along with Urban and Chesney the only current hitmakers of a certain age I could easily see him losing his place at the table.
November 20, 2017 @ 7:36 pm
I think tim mcgraww has aged a lot more gracefully that his peers especially Chesney who is still gripping onto his beach dad thing and trying to remain hip and revelant and peoppe like luke bryan never grew up but tim McGraw has been professional about his aging and doesnt seem like an absurd midlife crsis guy he seems to radiate a bit more maturity and thoughtfulnes even if sometimes he comes across as a dorky dad from a nickelodeon movie hes still a lot more elegant than luke bryan who is that embarrassing midlife crsis guy who sthinks hes still cool and seems like the cliché embrassing parent in every kids movie that seems ot want to make all dads dumb and embarrassing like a ben stiller movie. tim McGraw has that dorky part down but whereas a ben stiller dad is usually out of touch and tries real hard to be hip but is just embarrassing tim mcgra is a bit more like jack black in the movie the big year with steve martin hes kind of awkward but incredibly honest and sincere and likeable but thats only my opinion
November 20, 2017 @ 11:01 pm
Yeah, that’s why I very much prefer Tim over Kenny these days. Tim has actually shown more maturity with his recent music, unlike Kenny, who for the most part, still seems to be aiming for the college crowd.
December 6, 2017 @ 11:23 am
I liked Kenny Chesney in his early days. He became less country and more pop after his first couple of albums.
November 21, 2017 @ 12:49 pm
I just find it ironic that you can go to the trouble to put the accent over the e in cliché but can’t be bothered to use a single period.
November 21, 2017 @ 3:29 pm
oh my sweet Jesus you people are insensitive.
how many times does the man have to explain he’s got tendonitis and can’t type well?
I hope when you get older your limbs ache and burn
the commenters around here are some of the most elitist snobbish self-righteous buffoons in music
everybody wants to insult people for liking Sam Hunt but all y’all love Maddie and Tae who make the same kind of music except are hypocrites and keep going on and on about wanting to hear trashy songs by women instead of trashy songs by men
but when I say I don’t care who sings it as long as the songs are good?
I must be a sexist or not care about women
but God forbid I care more about the quality of the song than the gender of the singer.
Everything is so political I hardly want to comment anymore because all anyone goes on about is women on the radio or what did Sturgill say about Trump and now Neil McCoy got involved and you know what I hate now
Because now everyone’s arguing about the stupid nfl thing again neil McCoy shouldn’t have thrown oil on the fire because people are always asking to argue and act like two year olds over something and it’s getting so bad around SCM that now people are insulting disabled people for not using grammar to their elitist standards I’m so sick of reading the comments on here because thoughtful discussion went out the window two years ago and now everybody just wants to shove their opinions and better than the rest attitudes in everyone’s face
can we just focus on the music and be a bit more decent in the comments section?
because making fun of people’s tendonitis isn’t funny. it just shows that you’re an incredibly judgmental person and it’s not just this comment but people have been going on like this for days
the comment police went on a witch-hunt after lil dale they drove Clint away and were alarmingly unkind to me too and now the masses have found a new person to throw all their hate upon.
November 21, 2017 @ 3:55 pm
I call BS. If it’s so hard to type why does he use so many words to say so little?
Besides, my point was about the fact that he created a é but used no punctuation. Making é requires five keystrokes, a period requires one. That must have been a total killer.
November 21, 2017 @ 4:13 pm
most devices put the accent on the e automatically. my computer does, my mobile does, and my cell does.
November 20, 2017 @ 5:44 pm
Why the disrespect for missionary? It’s been around even longer than Tim and Faith and it’s still going strong and pretty much never disappoints.
November 20, 2017 @ 8:17 pm
I am just hoping that this direction is not any type of sign for how Tim will go with his solo stuff. His solo material has been so good lately, I hope he keeps going in that direction.
November 20, 2017 @ 9:29 pm
For anyone wondering what a Kenny Loggins/Kim Carnes album would have sounded like in 2017.
November 20, 2017 @ 11:36 pm
i only listened to the title track after i heard ed sheeran co-wrote it and i love him but needless to say it’s boring like most of the songs i’ve heard off the album
i have this theory that ed was originally planning to cut rest of our lives but then he wrote perfect and realized it was much better so he just gave the first song away
November 21, 2017 @ 7:07 am
As a child and continuing into my teen and adult years, I purchased every Tim McGraw and Faith Hill record released. Never had the opportunity to see them in concert until this year. And as someone who adored them, I had big expectations for seeing their live show. I wouldn’t say I was disappointed, but I left pretty underwhelmed.It wasn’t one of those shows that I raved about for days.
Obviously, they have a big catalog of hits between the two, but their opening consisted of just snippets of their most popular hits – songs that I would’ve loved to have heard from beginning to finish. It was a show where I actually would’ve been happy to have just the two of them sing the hits…none of the dramatic stage changes or lengthy video intros. I’m sure it worked well for their Vegas residency…but I didn’t fully get into it the way I thought I would in a stadium setting. A lot of people in my section actually got up and left during Faith’s entire performance…and everyone remained seated for the entirety of the show until Tim sang “Real Good Man” towards the end of his set. It was just an odd experience and definitely made me appreciate the entertainers who can deliver the hits and album cuts without relying on theatrics and costume changes.
November 21, 2017 @ 7:27 am
I could tell from the first 20 seconds of “Speak to a Girl” that this CD is going to be Faith Hill with Tim McGraw. This is Faith Hill music. This is a Faith Hill CD. The tour is a Faith Hill tour. There is nothing on this CD that resembles Tim’s last two CDs. This is him helping his wife jump start her career. I would not expect Tim’s next solo CD to sound anything like this. There is no new trend.
November 21, 2017 @ 9:31 am
I’m gonna have to agree with that observation Derek . No I haven’t heard thisrecord and won’t ….I’ve seen and heard enough of the two of them on award shows and yeah …that insipid last single ” Speak To A Girl ” ….absolute pandering crap .
Again ….these guys missed a golden opportunity to record a fantastic album of the best writes available even if they weren’t all duet-able , if I’m hearing you guys correctly here . But saying that ….MOST commercial-centric duets are not that great lyrically .
November 21, 2017 @ 10:38 am
Trying to milk every last penny out of the music they helped to destroy.
I need to defecate.
November 22, 2017 @ 9:50 am
Some time ago, it was reported that Tim and Faith were next door neighbors and did not live together. Not that it matters..Don’t recall where I read this, and only read tabloid headlines in the supermarket, so probably was a different source.
Do they even like each other anymore? So tired of all the fakery..
November 22, 2017 @ 12:56 pm
Nah, their house is just so big that her side of the bed is in a different zip code than his.
November 23, 2017 @ 3:24 pm
Really, sophie, you seem to have lost your way to the National Enquirer web site.