This came out in 2002 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Beatboxes. Computerized loops. ProTools editing. String sections up the wazoo. And more goopy ballads than an Aerosmith album.
On her fifth CD Cry, Nashville queen Faith Hill is as country as a low-fat, half-caf latte. These 14 songs find the big-voiced blond completely severing her increasingly tenuous ties with C&W and approaching Celineland — a world of slickly produced, impeccably performed (and virtually soulless) adult-contemporary pop and soul. Not that what she sings really matters. Thanks to the massive push this disc is getting, I have no doubt Cry will spawn a huge single, sell a jillion copies and dominate the country and pop charts. At least until Shania Twain’s Up! comes out in a few weeks. Then we’ll see who’s crying.
