Thalia is a well-known Mexican singer who has released countless hit CDs across the world. Then she came to America and released a self-titled CD that is not that good and hopefully made the star realize that she has work to do if she is ever going to make it in America.
I was happy to have a chance to review this CD, because I had heard a lot of good things about Thalia. Knowing that she is married to Tommy Mottola, I figured he would follow the same path to success that he guided Mariah Carey down. Unfortunately, Thalia does not have the talent that Carey possessed or the vocals to carry it all off.
We have all heard her first release, I Want You, featuring Fat Joe, and we all know how annoying that song has become. Laidback with your sexy smile/When you move your body you just drive me wild/If you’re feeling me baby, tell me now/because I want you, I want you/Baby, no one else/Can ever want you like I do. Then Fat Joe utters some nonsense and forgets why he made it in this business, ruining the song and grating on my nerves.
Actually, I believe Thalia has potential. Thalia’s songs have nice R&B hooks and her voice somewhat decent voice that could carry her in a manufactured Pop world. However, the rest of her songs get progressively worse and I didn’t even like I Want You that much. Baby I’m in Love is really just like every other love song out there with a catchy chorus. Baby, I’m in love with the one I’m with/Sorry if you don’t approve/I’ve got plans with the one I’m with/they’re a lifetime of being true/Baby, in a different place and time/Baby, that I might’ve changed my mind/But it’s like this/Baby, I’m in love with the one I’m with. It’s alright, but it really isn’t that special.
The rest of the CD has more of this melodramatic love crap and I just think that they were trying to recreate a magic that just can’t be created. Carey truly had something special that will probably never be duplicated. Either that, or they were trying to be the next Jennifer Lopez, but Thalia doesn’t have the charisma or the sex appeal to carry that off. Lopez could have done some justice to these songs.
I guess the moral of this story is to stop trying to appeal to the masses. Thalia is a great Spanish singer. She does not have to crossover into American audiences. Stick to singing in Spanish. There is still money to be made in just being you.
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