Reba McEntire - Rumor Has It

Rumor Has It that this is a big 5 star masterpiece!

I don't believe all these 1 star reviews. This is a masterpiece. It's right up there with For My Broken Heart. And speaking of heartache, this CD has plenty of them. Most notably, You Remember Me, Fallin' Out of Love, and Rumor Has It. I can feel the heart-wrenching heart break coming on right now.

I know it's a new sound, a new direction, but you can't expect anyone to keep doing the same thing year after year. They have to progress, and change with the times. That's called growing. You can't expect someone to stagnate and stay stuck in a time warp. This era of her career demonstrated real growth and it paved the way for her mega future success For My Broken Heart and the successes thereafter.

When is this going to be reissued? They've unbelievably reissued It's Your Call of all things. How could they reissue that and not this?

This is her 2nd album to go platinum within 5 months. Her first platinum album to be given that credit is Greatest Hits which took about one and a half years. Now, that's a good indication of its stellar magnitude. 3 million copies sold speaks volumes. November 12, 2007

Question the1 and 2 star reviews this CD received over a short time period

I seriously call into question all the 1 and 2 star ratings that were all listed within days of each other back in 2005. The reviewer (who I truly believe is the same person) simply says the same thing over and over again--just in different words. However, don't let this one naysayer hold you back from getting this album. Of course, everyone knows the big hits--Fancy, Rumor Has It, You Lie, and Fallin' Out of Love. However, there are some other true gems on this album including Climb that Mountain High, which was also used as the theme song to the short-lived Delta Burke show. Waitin' For the Deal to Go Down is about a woman waiting to get that wedding ring. The song was also covered by Dixiana. Also "That Picture" is a fun song in which Reba ultimately has a "bonfire" with her old lover's pictures.

However, the true gems here are Now You Tell Me--along the same line of her prior hit, One Promise Too Late. But the last two tracks are my favorites from the album-- You Remember Me and That's All She Wrote. While the former has a sentimentel side and is probably one of Reba's best vocal performances, the latter is just a fun umtempo song. While this is not "traditional" country, this is nonetheless some of Reba's best music. In fact, Reba indicated that she went through a lot of material while picking songs for this album because she was pregnant during this period.

Unfortunately, this was the last release prior to Reba losing her band in a plane crash. While this album's successor, For My Broken Heart, is considered by many, including me, to be Reba's best album, Rumor Has It also ranks right up there. If you buy this album, you won't be disappointed. September 19, 2007

Forgive Me For What I Do

Okay guys, I'm listening to "Fancy" by Reba McEntire and I've come to the conclusion that it is... the best... coutry music song...

EVER


Yes, and if you even know this song and love it, you know I'm right. For those who don't know, "Fancy," is a song where Reba plays the 'role' of "Fancy," a teenage girl who gets sold by her mother to become a teenage prostitute, with the opportunity to "make it," unlike her mother.

Anyways, so Fancy whores it up and become a classy, rich mutha, wearing mink and just generally being classy. And in the end, she says that she'll never forget her upbringings.

But, instead of my smoked out self trying to explain it - read the amazing lyrics for yourself, provided by me. After reading, and hopefully listening to the song for yourself, you'll love it more than ever.

Okay, here we go:
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FANCY
performed by Reba McEntire

I remember it all very well lookin' back
It was the summer I turned eighteen
We lived in a one room, rundown shack
On the outskirts of New Orleans
We didn't have money for food or rent
To say the least we were hard pressed
Then mama spent every last penny we had
To buy me a dancin' dress

Well, Mama washed and combed and curled my hair
And then she painted my eyes and lips (LIPS!)
Then I stepped into a satin dancin' dress that had a split on the side clean up to my hip
It was red velvet trimmin' and it fit me good
Standin' back from the lookin' glass
There stood a woman where a half gown kid had stood

She said, "Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down,"
She said, "Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down."

Mama dabbed a little bit of perfume on my neck
Then she kissed my cheek
And then I saw the tears wellin' up in her troubled eyes
As she started to speak
She looked at our pitiful shack
And then she looked at me and took a ragged breath
She said, "Your Pa's runned off and I'm real sick
And the baby's gonna starve to death."

She handed me a heart shaped locket that said,
"To thine own self be true,"
And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl across
The tow of my high heel shoe
It sounded like somebody else that was talkin'
Askin', "Mama, what do I do?"
She said, "Just be nice to the gentlemen, Fancy,
They'll be nice to you."

She said, "Here's your chance, Fancy, don't let me down,
Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down
Lord, forgive me for what I do, but if you want out
Well it's up to you
Now don't let me down now
Your Mama's gonna move you uptown."

Well, that was the last time I saw my Mama
And I left that rickety shack
The welfare people came and took the baby
Mama died and I ain't been back

But the wheels of fate had started to turn
And for me there was no way out
Wasn't very long till I knew exactly
What my Mama'd been talkin' about

I knew what I had to do and I made myself this solemn vow
"I's gonna be a lady someday,"
Though I don't know when or how
But I couldn't see spendin' the rest of my life
With my head hung down in shame
You know I mighta been born just plain white trash
But Fancy was-a-my name

She said, "Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down,"
She said, "Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down."

It wasn't long after a benevolent man
Took-a-me in off the streets
One week later I was pourin' his tea
In a five room hotel suite
(YES SHE WAS)

I charmed a king, a congressman
And the occasional aristocrat
And then I got me a Georgia mansion
And an elegant New York townhouse flat
And I ain't done bad
(SHE AIN'T DONE BAD)

Now in this world there's a lotta self-righteous hipocryrites
They call me bad (BAD)
And criticize Mama for turning me out
No matter how little we had

But though I ain't had to worry about nothin'
For now, oh, fifteen years
Well I can still hear the desperation in my poor
Mama's voice ringin' in my ears

"Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down,"
Whoa, "Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down
Lord, forgive me for what I do (DO), but if you want out
Well it's up to you
Now don't let me down, hon
Your Mama's gonna move you uptown."

Oh and I guess she did.
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Reba will always be eternally awesome to me because of this wicked song. September 5, 2006

What A Masterpiece

What a masterpiece Reba has done with this album!!! From Climb That Mountain High to That's All She Wrote, all songs are a work of art. She does a very good job on Fancy and a wonderful job on Rumor Has It - The title cut. My favorite song on the CD is Fallin' Out Of Love. It may be sad but it is a very good song. I am glad Reba made it a single. My least favorite song on this CD is You Remember Me. I would have given it a Five Stars except for this song. The first single - You Lie is very different from the other songs on the CD and every other CD that she has had out. The video of You Lie shows Reba as a spitfire of a woman when she gets mad. Now You Tell Me should have been a single. It is about a woman who finds another love in her life and the old love tells her he needs her desperately and tells her this after she found someone else.
Reba McEntire is one of my favorite Country Artists of all time. She can sing about anything and make it sound good.
Way to go Reba!!! July 15, 2006

Wonder of a cd!!!!

This was my first Reba album- I didn't like it then- I was younger, and only liked her bubblegum pop. Now i love it! Especially the Vocals of You Lie! The only sad thing about this cd is that you can hear a tiny hint of her upcoming cd's!:( June 16, 2006

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