Emotional ballads and dance pop: Tatiana's most pleasantly listenable adult album
Written: Jan 21 '01 (Updated Jan 21 '01)
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Pros: Nice variety of light and heavy songs, with most catchiness Tatiana had in adult-pop period.
Cons: Apparently didn't succeed commercially; in a few years she switched to children's music.
The Bottom Line: Of her "adult" albums, it's the one I listen to the most often, since the songs are the most pleasant and catchy. The 2 English tracks are interesting too.
dtobias's Full Review: Leyes del Corazon by Tatiana
After a career as a "teen pop star" in Mexico, Tatiana had upgraded her style and image to one of a more adult nature by her sixth album, Vientos en Libertad, which I've already reviewed. This was followed by two more adult albums which I've been unable to review here until now, as they weren't in Epinions' database, Leyes del Corazón and Un Alma Desnuda. The recent Epinions revamping has made these available for review, so I am now reviewing her seventh album, Leyes del Corazón.
Of her adult albums, the succeeding one, Un Alma Desnuda (1994), was the best-produced and most musically artful (though apparently the least commercially successful), and hence deserves objectively to be called the best of them. However, I still find this one, Leyes del Corazón (1992), to be the most pleasantly listenable of that series of albums, since she went for nice, catchy tunes to an greater extent here than at any other point of her "adult phase" before she switched to children's music with Brinca! in 1995.
Another notable thing on Leyes del Corazón is the two bonus tracks in English, found at least on the CD version (I'm not sure about the LP or cassette). They are English versions of two of the Spanish songs on the album. Tatiana hasn't done very much singing in English; besides these two tracks, the only other English songs she's recorded that I know of are on a promo single released at the time of her Un Lobo en La Noche album, "A Werewolf In The Night" / "I Don't Have A Boyfriend", which also are English versions of Spanish songs on her album. She's also sung songs that include English verses, like "Feliz Navidad", and on one of her TV appearances she sang "Looking Through the Eyes of Love" (the theme from Ice Castles, popularized by Melissa Manchester). So she can sing in English, but hasn't done it very much (despite the great marketing potential for "crossover" Latin artists). My impression is that she has a better singing voice in Spanish, as it comes more naturally to her, but the English tracks on this album are still pretty good.
Anyway, here are the tracks on this album:
1) Leyes del Corazon (Laws of the Heart): A nice light song. But I've seen her video for it, and that's much edgier than the sound of the song. It begins with Tatiana and her boyfriend apparently getting into a fight; it looks like he's been sitting around watching auto races on TV, and maybe she wants him to go out and get a job or something. He goes off in a huff, gets into a car, and then you hear the car crashing and doctors trying to save the guy, ultimately unsuccessfully (you hear sounds of a hospital heart monitor beeping and then flatlining). In between the accident and the death, you hear a phone ringing, with somebody informing her of the accident so that she's by his side when he dies. (All those sound effects are added on the video, and aren't in the original song.)
2) Romance Mutante (Mutant Romance): I don't think this means she's in love with one of the X-Men; I think it's the romance itself that's "mutant", not her lover. This has a harder, more rocking sound.
3) Mi Vida en Tus Manos (My Life in Your Hands): Back to the light side with a soft, emotional song.
4) Bailaremos Por La Luz (We Will Dance For The Light): As the name implies, this is a dance track, with lots of beat. It sounds like several different percussion instruments are used; all sorts of differently-toned "clicks" and "taps" show up.
5) No Vivire Sin Ti (I Can't Live Without You): She continues the alternation of "fast and hard" with "slow and soft", with another light track, one of her most pleasant and catchy.
6) Donde Quedo Tu Cariño (Where Was Your Affection): A track with some "rocking" edge, again.
7) Cuando Estoy Junto a Ti (When I Am Next To You): True to the album's formula, it's a lighter track. The early part of it isn't really that memorable, but it develops a "hook" later.
8) Magica (Magic): I think this is intended as another dance track with a beat and a heavy, driving tone.
9) Cuando Un Amor Termina (When a Love Ends): A slow, melancholy style. Develops a decent hook after a slow start.
10) Nadie Como Tu (Nobody Like You): For a change, she doesn't follow a slow and soft song with a fast and hard one; this one's pretty slow and soft too. It tries to develop a hook as it progresses, like other songs here, but I'm not sure it quite succeeds.
11) No Me Provoques (Don't Provoke Me): This one has a kind of '80s dance-pop sound, perhaps like you'd hear on Laura Branigan albums of the early to mid '80s.
12) Tiempos Crueles (Cruel Times): Another dance-pop style, with a bouncy beat. I recognize the tune from a popular song in English ('70s or '80s?), but can't quite remember the original title or artist.
13) I Can't Live Without You: The English version of track #5. Nicely performed; you can't tell English isn't her first language. I've seen interviews of her on TV where she speaks English with a strong accent, but that doesn't show here.
14) Dancing For The Light: The English version of track #4. She does a good job on this too, but I think her voice is better suited for the lighter tracks like the previous one.
Overall, it's a nice album to listen to, though from a phase of her career when she didn't seem to have the degree of popularity she had at other times.
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