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Selena: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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I love this soundtrack for Selena's songs. Especially the ballads 'Where did the feeling go' and 'Only love' because you cannot get them elsewhere! My favourite song was 'Is it the beat', which is sung to the tune of 'Enomaorada de ti' club mix. I also love 'A boy like that' and the brilliant cumbia medley, Selena singing live is stunning! I quite liked the oldies medley and the other tribute songs, but they were not as good as Selena!! 'Dreaming of you' and 'I could fall in love' are so beautiful. Anyone who saw the movie and like the songs should definetly buy this soundtrack and 'All my hits todos mis exitos', because all the songs from the movie are on that. Definetly a great cd!!

SELENA LIVES FOREVER!!!! This C.D. is awesome and so is the movie! No one can take Selena's place on this earth, she is and will always be La Reina, and the Tejano Queen!!!! We love and miss you Selena!!! ***R.I.P*****

Back in '97, I saw the movie SELENA in the theaters with one of my friends. We both loved it. After seeing the movie, we went to our hometown's mall and I bought the soundtrack for this movie. And I have to say this soundtrack is absolutely one of my top five favorite CDs out of my entire huge CD collection. Before this movie, I'd never even heard of Selena, so I knew of nothing about her death or her music, well actually, I do remember hearing "Dreaming Of You" being played on the radio in '95, but I never really knew much about Selena.

The best tracks on this entire soundtrack are: "Disco Medley Part 1", "Where Did The Feeling Go?", "Disco Medley Part 2", "Is It The Beat?", "Only Love", "Dreaming Of You", "A Boy Like That", "I Could Fall In Love", and especially "Cumbia Medley" - the songs Selena sings in Spanish on this soundtrack. "Where Did The Feeling Go?" and "Only Love" are previously not released on any of Selena's other albums, so these two are really beautiful songs and this soundtrack is a great way to add these two songs to your Selena collection. A person who's never heard of Selena before will get a pre-view of what Selena's music is like from this soundtrack before going out to buy one of Selena's albums. But this whole soundtrack - even the extras - are beautiful and wonderful. Selena's voice is stunning. And I have to say that my absolute favorite Selena song is "Dreaming Of You". Oh, by the way...Jennifer Lopez did an excellent job portraying Selena in the movie; you just couldn't have found a more perfect Selena match than Jennifer Lopez! I recommend both this soundtrack and the movie. You'll love both!

It's increible that had been 8 years since this big star was murdered.
There's another thing that I don't understand. How come her record company is not producing this masterpiece?.
I want to share my story with Selena. I always heard about her but I never heard her music until 1995 when I heard that she was murdered by her manager. So in 1997 when I was flying from Lima to Miami the in-flight movie was "Selena" and I found the movie very good and I also must say that J.Lo and Selena were similar. While I was in Miami I bought the soundtrak (this album) and felt in love with it. Had been almost 6 years and I still hear it oftenly.
This album has some of her Donna Summer's covers (I think that she was Selena's favorite singer) and several of her crossover songs such as "I could fall in love" and "Dreaming of you" from her Multi-Platinum first and only English album. And you can also find here her famous cumbias that made her win a Grammy award one yaer before her death.
It's a pitty that she's not with us anymore but we still have her music.
And the last thing I'll say is to buy this album if you like selena. I think it's her best one.

The CD that accompanies the acclaimed film dedicated to slain Tejano singer Selena (many know she's my favorite all-time performer, and my first inspiration for singing) is a great tribute. It incorporates many rare tracks and shows us why Selena was one of the world's best.

I had never really heard of Selena untill I saw the movie on HBO. I really loved it, so my friend got me the soundtrack from a cd club. I got the movie for Christmas, and I'm planning to buy her crossover album Dreamin Of You. This soudtrack is great. I love the songs 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9,and 10. I really love her disco medlies, and the way she put the dance moves into them. Selena was a very talented artist, and she is missed very much. I don't know why anyone would have killed her. Selena's death was a great loss.

Selena's voice has so much feeling and movement to it and she doesn't even try. SHe has the most beautiful natural talent I have ever heard. This album shows all Selena was and all she could have been. With songs like "Where did the feeling go?" it shows her ability to sing the ballads and "Is it the beat?" shows that she can sing the faster dance songs as well. YOu have to own this album because Selene is the greatest singer of all time and its a shame that it took a tragedy, her death, for everyone to realize how special she was. I became a fan when the movie "Selena" came out. I had owned her album "Dreaming of you", but I hadn't listened to it much, then I saw this movie and she is one of my favorite singers now. I guess its better to be a fan late than never at all. Even though she is not with us anymore her music will last for many lifetimes; for her voice is timeless.

It needs a bit more balance. This is Selena for English speakers, which I am one but most of her best stuff was in Spanish. Not much of the Latin sound in most of her English songs. Here they run through her Spanish hits in a quick live medley. Being the soundtrack of a movie about a woman and family that was all about music this probably should have been a double album. Lots of material they could have selected. I do like that it includes 'We Belong Together' and the Disco Medley, as in the movie Selena was a little girl telling her Dad she wants to sing Linda Ronstadt. During the credits we hear her singing in English 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow', which I thought was nice. That's not on this album. All that said though it is still good music and enjoyable to listen to.

The best parts of this album are the medleys especially the Cumbia Medley! The live piece oozes with energy, not just from the crowd but from Selena herself. For that alone, this CD is worth it!

There are her 2 English hits ("I Could Fall in Love" and "Dreaming of You") and a few other hits that she had recorded. A wonderful collection for those who appreciate her music.

The CUMBIA Medley rules, though! For whatever reason you buy this album, the Cumbia medley is worth it alone!

This is a great soundtrack. Not all of the songs are performed by Selena, these include: "Oldies Medley" by The Vidal Brothers; "Viviras Selena" by Pete Astudillo, Graciela Beltran, Barrio Boyzz, Emilio, Jennifer Pena and Bobby Pulido; and "One More Time" by Lil' Ray (this song was co-written by Edward James Olmos.) The rest are performed by the wonderful Selena.

"Is It The Beat?" is done to the tune of "Enamorada De Ti" (Ven Conmigo version.), and it's the most energetic studio track on here. "Where Did The Feeling Go?," "Dreaming Of You," and "I Could Fall In Love" are the ballads, and all are lovely. The live tracks are: "Disco Medley I & II," and "Cumbia Medley." Plus, there's a lot more. This CD has a lot of variety, and isn't just another Selena compilation.