“There’s a she wolf in your closet, open up and set her free!” Did you hear that sisters? Ladies, you should be listening, because this must be the proclamation you’ve been waiting for. “Let the she wolf out, and let her breathe,” and the soundtrack to that, er, transformation is disco-funk saddled with badly played guitars. And then maybe later, as the Colombian poppet wails on ‘Mon Amour’, you should get pregnant. Though, maybe not to Matt Damon as, according to the guitar-led ‘Men In This Town’, he’s run off with all the other men because they heard Shakira was coming around… Perhaps you, dear reader, couldn’t make it up; but this booty-shaking, joint-popping, Latino Aguilera-Lavigne-Spears clone certainly can. IN SPADES.
The mixture of electronic and guitar-oriented songs that dominate the album all bear the same, flat quality, and potential singles are spruced up with Arabic melodies that meander meaninglessly in-and-out to lend the tracks an insincere ethnic air. It really is awful, patronising trash and, frankly, you’d be foolish to disagree.
(1/5)
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