Dec 28, 2003 03:52 PM
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(Updated Dec 28, 2003 03:57 PM)
The third English language album of Enrique Iglesias is out , and it fails to conjure up the magic of its precedents – Enrique and even Escape. If you loved Enrique’s last album, you are probably going to miss the heartfelt simplicity of the ballad Hero because nothing in this album rises even close to that mark. For the sake of commercialisation, the singer seems to have given up that deep passion in his voice that was so strongly present in his earlier songs, and used to make up for his limited talent and absolutely cheesy accent (a weird cross between artificial Yankee and artificial Spanish), all of which become quite prominent in this album.
The album consists of 11 songs, none of which succeeds to leave a deep impact on the mind. The lyrics fall flat, what with lines like “If you can’t, can’t be yourself, what are you living for?” and “I thought I knew it all; how stupid could I be?” and so on. The music seriously lacks originality. Addicted, already enjoying much airplay in different music channels, is undoubtedly the best song in the album, but one still needs two or three listenings before really starting to like it. But then, one (inevitable considering Enrique albums) Spanish version and two different remixes on the same album is any day too hard to tolerate, even for the best of songs.
This album is for diehard Enrique fans. Buy it if you don’t mind buying an album for only one or two good songs. But then trust me, you’d rather not.
Friends, I was bent on writing a really small review (no reasons, just one of my whims I guess! But I want to try out every type – epics as well as leaflets) but it turned out that my last review wasn’t really that small (which I realized only when it was published). So this one. It might look highly un-personal, but let me tell you why. This was actually written for a students’ newspaper in my city called TTIS which I write in. It doesn’t yet have a website so this ain't copy-pasted, but most important proof is that it hasn’t yet been published in that paper.
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