When she was featured with a male actor in the “Baby, Baby” music video, some said it was a sin because the man wasn’t her husband.
When she tossed her hair and danced like a rock singer onstage in concerts, she was behaving like Madonna (not exactly a favorite within religious circles). When she started releasing pop songs, some fans thought she was abandoning them. All the gifts she had combined to break down a lot of walls.”Īs each album became more successful than the last (1982’s “Age to Age” was the first Christian album to go platinum, 1985’s “Unguarded” was a massive hit, 1991’s “Heart in Motion” exploded into the mainstream with the inescapable single “Baby, Baby”), a narrative began to form within the Christian music community: Grant was “controversial.” “The perception back then was that Christian music artists couldn’t be ‘cool.’ … But everything about her: her look, her style, her rapport with people, anyone, any audience. By 1991s Heart in Motion, she was a pop star, with Baby Baby and Every Heartbeat capturing a breezy innocence thats now largely vanished from the pop. “She was such a pioneer,” said Nashville journalist Deborah Evans Price, who has covered Grant’s career for 30 years and credits her with being ahead of the curve both sonically and lyrically. The smash album from Amy Grant launched her career to new heights and introduced the world to the hits 'Baby Baby,' 'Every Heartbeat,' 'That's What Love Is For,' and many more. (Grant, for what it’s worth, said she barely puts any thought into her clothes and is amused they get so much attention.) 2021 marks the 30th anniversary of the iconic album HEART IN MOTION. Bannister even recalls “the three-button controversy,” when she wore a shirt with the three top buttons opened on the cover of her sophomore album. Grant made a distinct attempt to find a place in the pop market with her 1991 release Heart in Motion, which contains songs that contemplate the earthly.
The lyrics are the source of the albums title.
A 1985 article in The Washington Post described her image as “confusingly sexy.” There was a strange amount of fixation on her leopard-print jacket and leather pants she wore in concert. It was the theme song to the Heart In Motion concept album, and was the first single derived from that album. As Grant emerged into the mainstream, some critics could not wrap their minds around her wardrobe.
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