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1. Only in My Dreams
2. Love Can Last Forever
3. Shayla's World (Interlude)
4. Open Up Your Heart - Shayla,
5. Once Upon a Kiss - Martin Nievera, Shayla
6. Don't Go
7. Open Arms
8. It's All Good
9. I'll Be Your Everything
10. Thank U
11. I'll Be There
12. My Summer Love
13. I'll Be Your Everything [*]

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4.2 out of 5 stars (20 customer reviews)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not just a pretty face, April 20, 2001

By	Michael Minster (USA) - See all my reviews

I saw this CD while browsing through a local music store. I have to admit, the pretty face on the cover caught my eyes. I thought I'll listen to a few tracks to see if it's worth the time. Well, to make a long story short, I now own the CD.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A CD FILLED WITH MAGICAL BEATS, April 17, 2001

By	Tri Nguyen (San Jose, CA USA) - See all my reviews

"Only in My Dreams" is Shayla first American CD working with Global sound! After listening to this CD I was very happy that Shayla represented us asian-american society. Her CD featured many famous artist such as Martin Nievera, KaLa'I Miller and her own mom Thanh Tuyen. All the songs in this CD were written with passion. The lyrics are emotional and deep. The beats and rhymth are magical stars! A different and unique taste of music! SHayla also co-produced three songs: Only in my dreams, Open up your Heart, and Thank U. This is a CD perfect for this type of season! Maurice Starr and Matt Young have created a new fantastic artist to the music chart. Buy this CD, you won't regret it!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Shayla - A Name to Remember, May 9, 2001

By	D. Nguyen (Sydney, Australia.) - See all my reviews

First of all, the sample clips of this CD is so so misleading. I feel that people may be turned off by the sample clips. If you really want to sample it then at least go to a real music store and listen there. The real CD sound quality is excellent!!

Shayla's voice has developed and evolved to a new height with this CD. You will see how versertile her voice can be with "Love Can Last Forever" and "Open Arms". Both tracks are beautiful love ballad and really demonstrate the flexibility of Shayla's voice. Shayla's proved that she can do it "slow", as well as "fast". I feel a definate single release for "Love Can Last Forever" is a must. But also don't forget "Once Upon a Kiss" (feat Martin Nievera - the guy lives up to his title "King of Concert") this a beautiful Disney-like style ballad love song. I feel that Disney should buy this song for their future movies. I love this track and I'm becoming Martin's fan.

One of my favourite tracks is "Only In My Dreams" (co-wrote with Shayla). This song is so beautiful, mellow and groovy (POP/R&B). I love the lyrics, very simple but very spiritually meaningful/effective. I can see another single release for this. I also really love "Don't Go/I'll Be Your Everything", both really good dance pop track that you can dance and sing to. Please release these as singles.

Ok, let's talk about the more "serious" side of Shayla with the track "Open Up Your Heart" (co-wrote with Shayla) duet with her extremely famous mom Thanh Tuyen. The lyrics are deep and meaningful, and it's about healing the past, forgiving and looking forward to the future, in general. But it's also about Human Rights and bridging the two VietNamese generations. This track is highly original (featuring VietNamese lyrics) and very well produced. Shayla did an amazing job in this song, and you will acquire to love this track. Another track "Thank U" was also (co-wrote with Shayla) a fun dance song which shows her appreciation to all fans who have been supporting her since the begining - "we love you too Shayla!"

The rest of the tracks are quite good but peronally I don't think they are as good as the other tracks. They are more of a "B-side" tracks to complement the CD, but nevertheless they are good enough. Another thing I feel about this CD is that I wish Shayla would do more dance tracks. It just that I rather do it on the dance floor than romance. I guess Shayla wanna show her "soft" side with this CD or maybe they think it will go down better with the listeners...I don't know. I can see that Shayla will be sticking around for a long time, it may take time but she will get there. Lets get use to the name "Shayla" because you will be hearing from her...

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3.0 out of 5 stars Shayla
So I only bought this cd because my parents know Shayla and I've met her a few times. Also I like her Vietnamese stuff. But I've never really liked her American songs. Read more

Published on June 27, 2005

5.0 out of 5 stars If You Only Believe...
Although this is Shayla's first "American" CD, she made a fair effort and should be recognized for rising to a higher level of performance. Read more

Published on December 7, 2003 by Tri Nguyen

4.0 out of 5 stars Only In My Dreams
Shayla is beautiful the same as her voice. I love to see her stage sometime.

Published on October 9, 2003 by Danny V. Nguyen

1.0 out of 5 stars horrible
She tries too hard to sing when she can't even sing at all. I can hear an accent in most of her singing so her voice isn't clear and melodic as most singers are. Read more

Published on October 9, 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars FAN TASTIC
I give it five stars i been to most of shaylas vietnamese consert and she was GREAT but for this C D it was a little bit shacky but i still think its GRRRRRRRREAT

Published on September 15, 2003 by Patrick Nguyen

2.0 out of 5 stars Could be better
I first bought this CD in high hopes for a Vietnamese/American entertainer to break through the American music industry. [ I was] disappointed. Read more

Published on December 27, 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars me
shayla's new album rocks! she sure knows how to use music and turn it into something new! this album is full of emotions and also makes me want to love life and dance!

Published on April 7, 2002

1.0 out of 5 stars Not Worth It
Watching Shayla back in the day a few years ago performing was okay... she's cute and can dance, but can't sing worth of crap. Read more

Published on December 12, 2001 by Nina Nguyen

4.0 out of 5 stars Review
Impressive.The album dose have a few good songs.The quality is not bad.(Good sounds and arrangments).Well,good luck to Shayla in the American music industry.

Published on May 13, 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars What a sweet voice
Shayla is a real truth image of Coco Lee and even better than her. Her sweet voice with a cute face and bring her music to higher level. Read more

Published on May 7, 2001 by tommy

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