In God's Hands

 This is one of the few songs on Loose that delves deep.
And boy does it! I mean really.

When I first saw Loose released on amazon, and everyone was raging about it, I hadn't heard ANY of her albums in completion. I also saw In God's Hands (on the track-listing) and didn't want anyone preaching to me about the Lord or anything like that!

I ended up ordering Folklore while January 2007 was just springing up! I mainly got it because along the way a few songs of hers I happened to enjoy and the reviews on amazon mostly swayed that it was her "best album to date."

So I got it. And when I heard it, it didn't really move me. I wasn't that impressed. It mostly went in that ear and then out the other. So I listened to it again. Maybe three times that day. Still nothing. So I put it away.

Fast forward months later:
Loose was still big, I dug Promiscuous and some of the singles that followed. But (around then), I found the heart of Folklore. It became my favorite album by her (duh!) and I was hooked.
Try, One Trick Pony and Picture Perfect were songs that truly touched me.

Then I got Whoa, Nelly. I actually got into a few songs quicker than I did with the previous album. Turn Off The Light and Party were so relate-able. I just couldn't believe what she was saying. Even that former had lyrics that I "didn't hear" when it was released as a single.

The craziest part of some of these songs was that she spoke "Me."

Anyway, In God's Hands is a ballad and a beautiful one at that. It's very slow but the production is like nothing else. Kinda wanders. Lingers. It gives off a "spacey" feel. When I hear it, it makes me feel like she's wondering...about where it went and how to get it back.

And if you've yet to hear it at all, wait till the end! Nelly shows emotion almost like she's never showed it in any other song.

It totally grabs you..
I've found that this is my favorite track off Loose. None of them really touched me like this. Wait For You and Do It are fun and have very enticing production but they only reach so deep. This song talks about a love that was so good and just "floated up in the sky, to Heaven...it's part of the plan. It's back In God's Hands. Back In God's Hands..."

I must say there was almost no other way she could have approached this and interested me at the same time. God has been a touchy subject for me since I graduated high school. At this very moment I'm a "swaying Agnostic" meaning I believe there is One out there, but tomorrow I could totally care less!

Anyway,

*great production
*interesting expression of a topic that's been done to death
*good meaning
*best song off the album
*should've been released in the U.S.
*i could -so- hear this on the radio and garnering attention

5(+) stars.

end note: if all of her videos and hearing her "Loose" album lyrics on the radio brings you to think she has totally "sold out", then maybe you have to download this song and see that Nelly never left us. She's changing as all her album styles did. In my eyes, there was no "selling out". March 26, 2008

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