No mincing words here. I love the merest sound of Thalia's sultry soft voice. I love the passion she imparts to her music, and I love its vitality and zest for living. I love the way she mixes so many latin and caribbean influences in her music to create a unique sound, and I love the energetic danceability of her hottest hits. No artist today has quite the same ability to blend and meld and create such a powerfully pure pop sound that I think really defines the whole latin pop genre. Thalia's Arrasando is not just a CD that exemplifies the work of a vibrant young talent -- it's also a CD that defines and solidifies a genre.
Beyond Passion and Reason...
Thalia's voice has a magical quality to it. She always sounds as if her whole soul and being are being infused into every heavenly note. The romantic ballads sound so passionate and soft and seductive that I somehow forget how unlikely it is that a sexy 30-year old international superstar is singing just for me....but oh, how a guy can dream...
Thalia's songs often carry subtly suggestive messages, but Menta y Canela really steps over the line from suggestion to "plain as the nose on your face." If you understand Spanish, you can't help but catch all the allusions and overt suggestions, starting from "when your lips want to give me the pleasures of your kisses" down to the lines about running lips around the navel (and lower). The song works at other levels too since the phrase "menta y canela" is kind of an allusion to swapping spit. Even if you don't speak a lick of Spanish, just listen to the tones of the song and the passion in Thalia's voice, especially just before the 3 minute mark of the tune -- do you hear the way the "nyanh nyanh" lines are delivered like an orgasmic moan? Amazing!
Menta y Canela is one of my favorite tunes on the CD. It's a contradiction: the song is so passionate beyond belief that it becomes believable. Thalia sounds like she's in the midst of a passionate affair that takes her breath away -- I just can't imagine how she'd do a song like this in a live setting...but I hope to see it someday. I can't help it, it's the voyeur in me...
If Menta y Canela didn't convince you of Thalia's ability to infuse a song with passion and conviction, then listen to Rosalinda. This song, with its imagery of dreams -- dreams filled with seductive men rubbing their lips and with sweet honey showing in their eyes -- has to be everything you expect in a romantic ballad. Rosalinda also happened to be a huge hit, but probably because it was the theme song of the popular Mexican soap opera.
If you're still not convinced that Thalia is the most passionate voice to have ever graced the silver disc, send me some email so I can come over and beat you into handsomeness...you philistine!
Vamos a Bailar!
Nobody in pop music does faster, higher energy, on-your-feet dance tunes than Thalia. Nobody. When she's at her best, she's red hot...don't believe it, just listen to the title cut, Arransando, with its rapid-fire staccato lyrics, the rap influences, and the dynamite salsa beats just exploding out of the speakers. This my friends, is the definition of hot!!!!
Arrasando is just the beginning of this album's great mix of highly danceable high energy tunes -- but oh what a beginning!
I love the techno sound of Quiero Amarte and its hip-swaying beat and the softly seductive sound of Thalia's incredibly passionate voice with its slightly gravelly edge.
If those tunes don't get you off your feet then I knowSuerte en mi will do the trick! Suerte en mi has all the energy of the best merengue tunes, complete with the high energy sound effects like whistle blasts and the fast changing beats -- keep up if you can...
Master of Pop
Can anybody seriously dispute Thalia's crowning as Queen of Latin Pop?? I don't think so!
Her stuff is just so believable, passionate, and intelligent -- yeah, that's right, it's intelligent too. She's blending a lot of different musical styles together to create the unique blend of flavors that make up this album -- from rap and reggae influences to the unmistakable signatures of salsa and merengue. Her lyrics too are smart, with a lot of themes blending together well and the subtle use of suggestion here and there to convey levels of meaning far beyond what you expect to find in such pop oriented material.
I've been a Thalia fan for some time now, and she just keeps getting better and better with each CD. I loved En Extasis and absolutely adored Amor a la Mexicana, but in my opinion, Arrasando just leaves those works in the dust...it's that much better. Here's a couple examples of what I'm talking about...
Entre el Mar y una Estrella has kind of a classic soft-rock pop sound. It reminds me alot of the rhythms and soft guitar work that artists like Phil Collins or Bono have learned to harness in conjunction with the magic of their own voices. It's as catchy as new car commercial and as soft as one for Downy fabric softener. Classic pop, Baby! Close your eyes and let the soft waves of the music take you away to your own special place somewhere between the sea and the stars...
Do you know how some of those old 50s and 60s hits still work to get you up and dancing and in the mood for fun times? Tunes like Richie Valens' La Bamba or the Big Bopper's Chantilly Lace?? Well let me tell you, tunes like Thalia's Pata Pata can probably do the same thing in a couple decades. The tune is a classic dance club number that's nothing serious...just a fun dancable tune. Come on, get on up, shake those hips, dance the Pata Pata....
How Arrasando Stacks Up...
I'll level with you, amigo. I absolutely love Arrasando. I think it's one of the hottest CDs in modern music and it fully defends Thalia's right to stand among the world's top international music artists. This album is even hotter than Amor a la Mexicana (which is also a great CD) and it beats the heck out of the just-released banda version of her grandes exitos (though I gotta admit, she still looks pretty hot in the vaquera costumes that she wears in the videos, but then again, a woman with her body and looks could probably make a cardboard crate look sexy...)
The music is filled with passion and soul and a zest for living. It's the kind of music that makes me happy to be alive and even happier to own a good stereo with huge honking speakers that shake the whole neighborhood. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to answer the door...looks like somebody called the cops on me again...
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