These songs are a great addition to "Cry." I've recorded it all onto my hard drive and put "Wicked" after "Unsaveable" and "Shadows" after "Stronger." It only makes the album better!


If this song isn't "alt-", what is?   October 7, 2005
Jeremy J. Goard (Northern California)
I haven't heard much of the full album "Cry", and I'm far from the biggest fan of Faith Hill more generally. "This Kiss" and "Breathe" were each annoying in their respective ways. "The Way You Love Me" is a clever song with some cool couterpoint at the end. The more recent Faith seems very pretentious without interesting songs to back it up.

Taken on its own, however, "Cry" is one of the most excellent songs in recent memory, and I don't just mean in country music. The way that the voice stays just out of sync with the strong drums builds up just the right feeling of tamped-down rage. The bare lines at the end of the bridge ("I don't want pity; I just want what is mine.") lead to an explosion in the last chorus. As someone who listens to a lot of stuff classified as folk, indie-pop, or alt-country, I just don't expect this much ambition in songwriting from the major Country scene today. "Cry" is a nice exception that everyone should check out.


Great Single!!   October 5, 2002
Maren Cuykendall (Coralville, IA United States)
Usually I don't buy singles, but this one by Faith Hill is a must -have. It has her new hit single "Cry" on it which is incredible. But there are also two songs that you cannot find on her new album, "Wicked" and "Shadows"-two amazing songs!! Wicked has a medium beat and is very haunting and pretty. Shadows is very slow and beautiful. I highly recommend this single to anyone who likes Faith, likes "Cry" or just simply enjoys well-crafted music.


Enormously Under-rated   April 30, 2004
Kevin Funkhouser (Tulsa, OK USA)
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I got the single back in Oct. of 2002, before "Cry" was released, and I was shocked at the new sound that Mrs. Hill was sporting. You could tell that she was branching out, and redrawing-if you will-the bounderies of country music. I've read alot of articles that say Shania Twain was the original "cross-over" pioneer for country, but I think that Faith has really done the job well. While Twain is hugely successful with her "two disc" sound, Hill has put everything she has into one "take it or leave it" amazing cd. The "B" tracks on the CRY single (Wicked, Shadows) show how much this artist has grown. Wicked has beautiful, single lines of poetry intertwined together to tell a heartfelt story, that I still haven't quite figured out! The poetry alone makes the song worth the price of the CD! But then it's set to a catchy, upbeat, country-rock sound that stays in your head for days! The second song, (Shadows) has to be one of my favorite songs of all times. It's the "If I Should Fall Behind" (Off 1999's "Breathe") of Hills new album. It's a song that tells a story of a pleading heart to a best friend/lover, saying "tell me the truth, it won't scare me, and no matter what, I'm here. I want to carry the pain with you". The song has so much meaning it's hard to sum it up in one line! And of course, we should talk about CRY. It seems on this single, "Cry" is left out of the reviews because of how wonderful the "B" tracks are! Cry is a wonderful song, a lover to another begging to see some more emotion, as proof that they still care. Angie Aparro did wonderful with this song, and was hugely under-rated with it. Faith Hill carries this torch well, and I'm certain Apparo is proud. I noticed that this single has a 5 star rating, that means everyone who has voted for it has given it a perfect score - so will you.