#Amy Grant

[nobeerreviews]

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there’s something good about feeling both.

-- Amy Grant

[its-your-girl-geekerella]

Ok, so, I'm not someone who thinks that every original musical movie should have a stage production. For instance, while I love Pitch Perfect and Wonka, I don't think we need a stage adaptation of either.

HOWEVER.

Y'ALL.

Netflix's A Week Away must become a staged musical.

Who will join me?

[damailbox]

Disney Adventures, October 2005

[hit-song-showdown]

Year-End Poll #42: 1991

[Image description: a collage of photos of the 10 musicians and musical groups featured in this poll. In order from left to right, top to bottom: Bryan Adams, Color Me Badd, C+C Music Factory, Paula Abdul, Timmy T, EMF, Extreme, Hi-Five, Surface, Amy Grant. End description]

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As I've stated in previous polls, the charts used to be mostly compiled from retail sales (ranging from physical media to sheet music). This data was gathered by Billboard sending out surveys or calling record stores directly. However, in 1991 Billboard began implementing Nielsen SoundScan and Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems (BDS). The technology first used to compile the country charts in 1990, which helped to give a more accurate picture of listening habits among country music fans. SoundScan and BDS was applied to the Hot 100 and the R&B charts in late 1991. This more objective method of music data collection will be instrumental in more country, hard rock, and rap albums reaching the top of the charts. Of course, there were still gaps in the data, as SoundScan was only able to work with stores with the technology to implement it, so sales from smaller retail venues might not have been tracked as accurately. Billboard has a more detailed article about the program here.

Speaking of rap, there is a moment in the genre's history that I would like to talk about as well. This happened in 1990, but I'm not going to let something trivial like the passage of time get in the way of me rambling about what I want. Miami bass is a subgenre of rap that grew out of (surprise) Miami, Florida. Musically, the sound is known for its heavy bass, electro and dance beat influences, kick drums, and high tempos. But the genre became rather infamous for its sexually explicit lyrics. One of the groups that came under fire for their lyrical content was 2 Live Crew.

In 1989, 2 Live crew released their third album As Nasty as They Wanna Be. A few polls ago, I talked about the creation of the Parental Advisory sticker, where the nature of explicit lyrics was brought all the way to the senate. But apparently, a parental advisory sticker wasn't considered enough for this album. In 1990, the album was ruled as obscene, making it the first album to be legally classified as such. Later that year, the members of 2 Live Crew were arrested for performing it. A record store owner in Florida was even arrested for selling the album to an undercover cop.

As horrible as this was, the news of the arrest made the controversy more of a matter of free speech in the eyes of the public. In 1992, Luke Records v. Navarro reached the Eleventh Circuit where the obscenity ruling was overturned. It's hard to imagine what the music landscape would look like today if that ruling went any other way, and I thought that it was an important moment to talk about as we see the evolution of music on these polls. There is a lot to this case that I couldn't get into, so I'm linking to a short MTV clip and a more detailed article about the arrest.

[moratoirenoir]

[disasterbiwriter]

my christianity is more akin to atheism these days (it's complicated!) but I will never NOT rock Amy Grant's A Christmas Album.

[eccentricphilosoph]

As children we believed The grandest sight to see Was something lovely wrapped beneath our tree Well, Heaven surely knows That packages and bows Can never heal a hurting human soul

No more lives torn apart Then wars would never start And time would heal all hearts And every one would have a friend And right would always win And love would never end This is my grown-up Christmas list

[rainintheevening]

For all of you, whether I follow you, or you follow me, or we just visit occasionally, I love my tumblr friends, and this is for you.

[employee645-gay]

Oh now, as I look into your eyes, well, I wonder if it's wise to hold you like I wanted to before.

Amy Grant because I'm crushing super hard on her right now.

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: January 18, 1991

Lyrics:

Baby, baby

I'm taken with the notion

To love you with the sweetest of devotion

Baby, baby

My tender love will flow from

The bluest sky to the deepest ocean

Stop for a minute

Baby, I'm so glad you're mine, yeah

You're mine

Baby, baby

The stars are shining for you

And just like me, I'm sure that they adore you

Baby, baby

Go walking through the forest

The birds above are singing you a chorus

Stop for a minute

Baby, they're so glad you're mine, oh yeah

And ever since the day you put my heart in motion

Baby, I realize that there's just no getting over you

Baby, baby

In any kind of weather

I'm here for you, always and forever

Baby, baby

No muscle man could sever

My love for you is true and it will never

Stop for a minute

Baby, I'm so glad you're mine

And ever since the day you put my heart in motion

Baby, I realize there's just no getting over you

And ever since the day you put my heart in motion

Baby, I realize that there's just no getting over you

Over you

Songwriter:

Baby, baby

Always and forever

Baby, I'm so glad that

Here for you, baby

So glad you're mine

Baby, I'm so glad that

When I think about you, it makes me smile

Baby, baby, be mine

Baby, I'm so glad that

Don't stop giving love

Don't stop, no

Baby, I'm so glad that you're mine

Baby, I'm so glad

Baby, I'm so glad that

When I think about you, it makes me smile

Amy Grant / Brian Thomas

SongFacts:

👉📖

[dzgrizzle]

From May 14, 2020: Last night I dreamed I went to after-church lunch with Barack Obama and the novelist Somerset Maugham. In the dream I was trying to think of some brilliant intellectual questions to ask them, but we ended up talking about music and books. Obama and I both talked about the last time we had each seen Amy Grant in concert. Somerset Maugham did not know who Amy Grant is, perhaps because he had died in 1965.

[flameontheotherside]

Every heartbeat bears your name

Loud and clear, they stake my claim

My red blood runs true blue

And every heartbeat belongs to you

- Amy Grant, Every Heartbeat

[xxdoubledaisyxx]

In a magnanimous mood today, and one person especially should feel fortunate.

Trump, your card came up again today, whether you play it or not.

Conviction of treason is without argument or compromise; summary execution is.

My judgement, should you choose to accept it:

life in maximum security prison, with a minimum time of 3 months served.

Enough for him to break, and then come to accept the despair of life among the wreckage of civil failure, where all new ideas go to die, realizing that we each are only an idea, our very flesh and blood a mere thought within the amused mind of a higher power; divinely perfect beyond our comprehension.

Knowing how helpless you are to resist and defy such an omnipotent power vital to your own survival, we find security in the knowledge that becomes the basis of faith itself, a rock of eternal gravity upon which the colossus scholastia castleopolis stands forever triumphant, a beacon of radiant hope, glimmering golden, too bright to see from the distance of anywhere else.

....

however, I couldn't care less about whether he lives or dies. I have no personal grudge against the man or emotional passion of vengeance I wish to express.

The cause of the disorder is treason.

the proof is Constitution by evidence of espionage in public images of mass media. Deceptive communication. Not only in the way they express their products, but also in why they are doing so.

do you think they know what they are doing if they do not demonstrate respect and honor toward the ideal of America, as eternally established with a Declaration of Independence, ratified by 13 colonies, the expanse of which covered the distance between Maine and Florida, and included vast numbers of Native Americans who were and always have been vital to our survival and most welcome to our friendship.

If you are an American, you are not ever concerned about another person's nativity. You are your own only because you acknowledge and accept everyone else's.

This business with Mexico is dangerously overinflated by people whose fears are too far removed from the reality of life at the border, where their concerns come from.

Building a wall will not solve the problem, nor alleviate any symptoms. The problems you people are fighting about will only get worse if you build a wall.

Just stop. Change the policy so that it is in direct order with the intentions and ideals of the established Constitutional doctrine in 1776, signified singularly by the Declaration of Independence, which was presented so boldly before the kingly court of Great Britain, Empire of the world, that the man with the crown adjusted his waistband when he saw it in ink.

Compartmentalize what you personally believe in a space shuttle and launch it away on a never return journey for a moment, and you've just found the Way of the Story.

Liberty.

Happiness.

Freedom.

A lot will have to change to return back to where we will go, and accomplishing the work will require carefully timed decisions at unpredictable moments while coordinating with a countless others doing the very same over long distances. Those people will find themselves when the time comes.

This problem is a lot worse than what was resolved with the colonization of the New World, because now we are confronted with the colonization of outer space.

The "Lord" is our higher power. not a human being, nor any establishment or creation by a human being. president of the USA specifically denies that authority from a person for the purpose of serving the public interest with a government established by written constitution in agreement with the people's will as free and ably expressed.

A religion is on the other side of the line between earth and heaven from a government and its person in charge.

That is the very purpose of the words that define treason as adhering to the enemy in the USA's constitution.

That is not in the best interest of the "Empire".

You will be stopped.

...

Make this easy on yourself for my sake, if not for your own.

Three months is a long time for a man who moves at high speeds in the urban center, but isn't in the hustle and bustle with the steam on the streets. I would have executed him long ago myself if I had such means, but that's ridiculous. I have no means nor desire to execute anyone in real life. If that situation comes up, I will redeem and retain whoever defies my authority and make a better adventure out of it rather than labor with a burden and be bored.

Take him out of LIfe and lock him in Leavensworth for at least 3 months with the people who are actually spies, terrorists, traitors, and otherwise dangerous to our national security. Let them mingle and all understand what is going on, but don't make life worse for anyone.

Jail, prison, incarceration, whatever-- should be a service maintained and operated by the hospitality industry in cooperation with law enforcement for security and safety.

People do not go to jail to suffer being in jail.

People are sentenced to prison for lengths of time because that denies them Freedom as universally applicable to any civilization.

That's what the punishment is. That is who is punishing. That is where the suffering comes from and only that, and it is not hate. It is self-love.

The lock and key is necessary because men and women are dangerous and that is something we all respect so much that we never question it by threatening each other in ways that endanger their life, at least not without apology or agreement first. In other words, it is because those people are a danger to society and need to remember their place in the higher order of Life before they can be let out.

It's more of an art in practice than what science is in practice, but it's much more of a science than it is an art in theory. Law, that is.

Leave the Trump Estate to his adult children to manage as they see fit and do not trouble them by minimizing involvement as much as possible. (please spare yourself the drama. if he's anything like me, he's going to need a lot of support from the people who do love him. It is none of my business nor concern, so don't take my shuddering revulsion of horror as a personal insult.)

My order is to have him killed, but that is in the capacity of an authority higher than my individual self. That is why it is a Life sentence, but personally... well, you now know the way I think about matters like that. I'd rather see it like a story on the big screen. That guy doesn't have to die, but in real life... everybody needs to be the ones to save him, and that's how the bus gets flipped back onto its wheels.

I'm just an author, but that is the Way of the Story. Real life never works out exactly the way I see it or imagine it. In fact... there always seems to be another presence there besides the one you trust the most, your faithful companion.

What will the people want? Will their passion be the end of us all with unmitigated destruction amid the chaos?

or could it be a glimmer of light? from the light-struck steel of restraint as the ship launches skyward with the girl and the bank in her handbag, the fuzz in hot pursuit.

...

sound the whistle, activate the big horn, call an all stop and let gravity take its course.

You know the score.

[moratoirenoir]