[7] Her fourth album, Dreams Never Die, reverted back to pop music, but was only released on November 21, 1993,[citation needed] in Asia.

[1] Struggling with alcohol and drug problems, Tiffany was convinced by her longtime bodyguard, Frank D'Amato, to take a hard look at what she wanted in life.

[1] Exhausted by her residency at the Las Vegas Hilton and aware that the industry had moved on from her, she decided to take a break to focus on her family and reconnect to herself.

[12] For the first three months, their working relationship struggled as Tiffany found it difficult to accept anyone's control over her career after years of self-sufficiency.

[11][12] The first song written for the album, "Silence", survived her rocky relationship with Feehan, as they almost decided to split up due to creative differences.

[12] After Frank D'Amato died of cancer at the age of 34, Tiffany created the melody and wrote the first two lines of the lyrics of "If Only", which was later given to Joe Brooks.

[1] The Color of Silence is a pop rock album[14] incorporated by dance, blues, gospel, and electronica music.

[11] I'm Not Sleeping" is an emotional, verbal abuse song from a female's point-of-view, expressing that she "lost a big chunk of herself and regained her power", but she emancipates and "doesn't go back to try and prove anything to him.

"[15] The song includes a pop rock hook[14] and accompanies "rocky" rhythms,[11] African drums,[11] guitar strums,[11] "slow-building" basslines,[15] and minimal keyboard effects.

[11] Accompanied by melancholic guitars, marching band cadence, and bagpipes, "Piss U Off" finds Tiffany being "dumped", as she "succinctly puts it, but with a twist.

"[11] Regarding the song's production, Rugglerl stated that the "ghost of [Alanis Morissette] floats through the insinuating guitars and beefy chorus".

[10] A Billboard front-page article called it "thoughtful, intelligent, and full of grace", and said that it could be considered "Tiffany's equivalent to Alanis Morissette's landmark Jagged Little Pill.

"[13] MTV Asia also gave the album three out of five stars, picking "Open My Eyes", "I'm Not Sleeping", "Silence", and "Good Enough For Me" as "Choice Cuts".