History Music / FaithGeorgeMichaelAlbum

Having broken off Music/{{Wham}}, George sought to make a full break from the tennybopper image that he had been stereotyped with, despite the more serious subject matter of their later album, ''Make It Big''. He would spend a year crafting songs for this album, writing all the songs himself, though one song did get some assistance from previous collaborator David Austin.

Sometimes I think that you never understand me\\

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Before you throw my heart back on the floor'']]

Mark Coleman of ''Magazine/RollingStone'' hailed the work, saying George was emerging as "one of pop music’s leading artisans". Critics were delighted, with ''Entertainment Weekly'' grading the album an A, and even ''The Village Voice'' giving it a B+. Retrospectively, [=AllMusic=] rates ''Faith'' 5 out of 5 stars.

The accolades for the music would roll in. ''Faith'' won Album of the Year at the 31st Grammy Awards in 1989. He also won one Moonman off of three nominations (Best Direction for "Father Figure") at the 1988 MTV Video Music Awards, and the 1989 Video Vanguard award.

The album was listed at #472 on the ''Rolling Stone'' [[UsefulNotes/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]] list in 2003, #480 in 2012, then shot up to #151 on [[UsefulNotes/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime2020 the 2020 list]].

# "Faith"
# "Father Figure"
# "I Want Your Sex (Parts I & II)"
# "One More Try"

# "Hard Day"
# "Hand To Mouth"
# "Look At Your Hands"
# "Monkey"
# "Kissing a Fool"

# "Hard Day" (Shep Pettibone remix)
# "A Last Request (I Want Your Sex Part III)"

* SequelSong: "I Want Your Sex" is actually two parts; Part 1 (roughly the first 4:44) was the radio version. And it was originally ''three'' parts, with the third being broken off as the song "Kissing a Fool".
* SexIsGood: From "I Want Your Sex (Part 1)":

* SongStyleShift: The multi-faceted "I Want Your Sex", with Part I being electro-funk, and Part II being an RAndB-flavoured instrumental heavy in brass. The original Part III, "Kissing a Fool", is Jazz-inspired.

!!''I want your tropes''

# "Kissing A Fool"

Maybe this time is forever say it can be\\

Mark Coleman of ''Magazine/RollingStone'' hailed work, saying George was emerging as "one of pop music’s leading artisans". Critics were delighted, with ''Entertainment Weekly'' grading the album an A, and even ''The Village Voice'' giving it a B+. Retrospectively, [=AllMusic=] rates ''Faith'' 5 out of 5 stars.

* AlbumTitleDrop: "'Cause I gotta have faith."

-->''Why can't you set your monkey free?''
-->''Always giving in to it''
-->''Do you love your monkey or do you love me?''

-->''Well it takes a strong man baby''
-->''But I'm showing you the door!''

-->''Sex is natural, sex is good.''
-->''Not everybody does it, but everybody should.''

[[caption-width-right:350:''Before this river, becomes an ocean, Before you throw my heart back on the floor....'']]

Having broken off Music/{{Wham}}, George sought to make a full break from the tennybopper image that he had been stereotyped with, despite the more serious subject matter of their later album, ''Music/MakeItBig''. He would spend a year crafting songs for this album, writing all the songs himself, though one song did get some assistance from previous collaborator David Austin.

''Faith'' is the first solo studio album by Music/GeorgeMichael, which was released in 1987. It features the hits "I Want Your Sex (Part I)", "Faith", "Father Figure", "One More Try", "Monkey", and "Kissing A Fool".

* EthicalSlut: George in "I Want Your Sex". As per WordOfGod, "it's not about fucking, it's about fucking within a relationship". The music video prominently features the slogan '''''Explore Monogamy'''''.