 Label: Sony/BMG
Sound/Style: Pop-influenced contemporary country
Martina McBride is a perky powerhouse whose full-throated country hits alternate between matters of the heart and headier social issues like poverty and domestic abuse. The thematic mixture on Waking Up Laughing is similar, with one difference, McBride combines those two worlds, injecting big doses of light into several uplifting songs aimed at the heart of imperfect modern life. "House of a Thousand Dreams" peers through cracked windows upon a financially challenged family that thrives in love despite disadvantages. The fist-clenching anthem "Anyway," which marks the singer's debut as a writer, nimbly connects the notions of dreaming and praying while maintaining a realistic take on belief in a mysterious Creator: "And you know it might not ever come your way/ Dream it anyway/ God is great, but sometimes life ain't good/ When I pray it doesn't always turn out like I think it should/ But I do it anyway."
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