Breathe

In this song, Faith Hill sings about sinking into an intimate moment with her lover. Being in his arms, the outside world slips away. They don't even have to talk, it's enough just to feel him breathe. We can assume that her husband, Tim McGraw, provided inspiration for her performance.

This was written by country singer-songwriters Stephanie Bentley and Holly Lamar. Bentley later co-wrote Martina McBride's "Concrete Angel," while Lamar co-wrote "Unbroken" for Hill's husband, Tim McGraw.

Faith Hill is a country singer, but "Breathe" has massive crossover appeal and got played on a variety of radio formats. Country music launched into the mainstream in the early '90s as "new country" artists like Garth Brooks (the first country singer to have an album debut at #1 on the Billboard 200) infused their songs with pop and rock elements. Hill joined the movement with her pop-friendly 1998 album Faith and followed up with Breathe. The latter topped both the country and pop albums charts, and the title track was the #1 pop airplay song of 2000. Like Hill, several other female artists saw major crossover success around the same time, including Shania Twain, Martina McBride, and the Dixie Chicks.