Amy Grant

In 1991, A&M Records pulled out all the stops to break Amy Grant and her Heart in Motion album in a big way, and this collection of four music videos of songs from the album (plus the 1986 video for her chart-topping duet with Peter Cetera, "Next Time I Fall in Love"), all of which became hit singles, is prime evidence of that promotional push. Director DJ Webster, employing healthy budgets, shoots on film, placing the singer into colorful scenarios with lots of camera movement and quick edits. "Baby Baby" finds her cavorting with a male model (even though the song reportedly was written for her daughter), giving a wholesome sense of young love. In "Every Heartbeat," she is put into a series of fashion outfits to sing, intercut with two scenes of attractive young people meeting and, apparently, falling in love, at a gas station and a Laundromat. "That's What Love Is For," the most serious and substantive of the songs, looks like a commercial for perfume, with its desert setting and the outlandish costumes Grant and some models are forced to wear. The video that most fans saw on MTV for "Good for Me" was a virtual re-run of the one for "Baby Baby," with the same male model, but a different video is substituted here, this time pairing Grant with a female companion and transforming the implied meaning of the song from love to friendship. Director Dominic Sena's take on "Next Time I Fall in Love" finds Grant and Cetera, who are never seen in the same shot, emoting in a large ballroom while dancers roam the set and the film stocks change from shot to shot. All of this is eye-catching stuff, none of it detracts from the music, and the photogenic Grant, who doesn't have to do much more than pretend to sing, mug a bit, and wear clothes attractively, manages fine. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide