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4.0 out of 5 stars
"Para Mi Pueblo": Some great tracks, some filler, May 16, 2001
By A Customer
This review is from: Para Mi Pueblo (Audio CD)
Beltran's newest album highlights her voice better than her previous release, "La Reina del Pueblo con Banda". Many of the songs on this album are good, but the album has a certain repetitiveness to it that is a bit annoying. Much of this album appears to be a throwback to the glory days when Beltran was a top-selling emerging artist accompanied by a heavy banda sound (Tesoro). The clashing cymbals are back, as well as the feeling that the circus has just arrived. Three tracks on the disc vary from this recipe: "Hasta Cuando" evokes images of the dance halls of yesteryear, with men dressed in tuxedos and women in sleek red dresses and high-heeled black sandals. "La Mucura" is a fun cumbia that proves that Beltran doesn't have to sing love songs 100% of the time. "Sigue Tu Ruta" is a bouncy, fast-paced song that is sure to be a radio and television hit (Beltran has made an excellent video to promote the song). In between these three songs however, are remakes of old Mexican standards. Beltran's voice continues to impress, but perhaps the album would have been better had it not been purely banda music. If Beltran would have kept the same songs, but mixed them up with different accompaniments (mariachi, grupero), this could have been her "Amor Prohibido" (in other words, a blockbuster album).
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