| Marc Anthony comes on like a suave, less jumpy alternative to Ricky
Martin on this mostly English-language album. Having already introduced
itself to the pop mainstream with the salsa-tinged single "I Need to Know,"
Marc Anthony offers several other obvious crossover hits, ranging from
the Rodney Jerkins-produced Latin-funk fusion of "She's Been Good to Me"
to the lovelorn midtempo ballad "When I Dream at Night." However, Anthony's
agreeably keening voice is too often applied to the sort of colorless
adult-contemporary material typical of Michael Bolton and Mariah Carey
mainstay Walter Afansieff, who produces or coproduces three tracks here.
The result is often more interesting in sociological terms--Anthony fans
who, like the star, were born to Latino parents in America are as sure
to eat this disc up as his new Caucasian admirers--than in musical ones.
Ain't that America? |
