More Tatiana for the buck!
Written: Oct 26 '00 (Updated Oct 26 '00)
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Pros: The most Tatiana songs you can get for the lowest price.
Cons: Half of them are Christmas songs, which you might find useless 11 months of the year.
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| dtobias's Full Review: Serie Millennium 21 by Tatiana |
I've reviewed a number of albums from the Mexican singer Tatiana, who started as a teen pop singer, continued into more adult music, but then moved into children's music. You can read those reviews if you want more background on her. One other Epinions member, godspeede, has also been writing Tatiana reviews -- I don't think that's quite enough to say that there's a "growing groundswell of support" for her around here, but at least it doesn't leave me totally alone in the category!
Anyway, the item I'm reviewing here, Serie Millennium 21, is the best buy for anyone who doesn't yet have any of her albums but wants to get an overview of her music. It is part of a collection of compilation CDs put out by Universal to mark the turn of the millennium (which technically doesn't happen until Jan. 1, 2001, but like most people, they celebrated that a year early). Various Latin artists got collections of this sort, each of which is a two-CD set containing 21 tracks. They sell for about the normal price of a single album, but have twice as much music, which is a very good deal. If you're a fan of any other Latin artists on the Universal label, you might want to check if there's a Serie Millennium 21 collection on them too.
Last I checked, this is still in print, and widely available at record stores and online music sellers.
Tatiana's Millennium collection consists basically of her two preceding albums, Superfantástico and Navidad Magica (the latter of which was also re-released as Feliz Navidad). The order of the tracks is changed from the earlier albums, and there are a few minor omissions.
The first disc contains the songs from Superfantástico (the version including the telenovela theme "Gotita de Amor"), leaving out only "Es de chocolate", which I guess was too fattening to include here. The second disc contains 10 of the Christmas songs from Navidad Magica, leaving out "Paseo en trineo (Sleigh ride)", "Aires de pascuas (Hark the dark)", and "Jesús en la tierra".
Compilation albums usually draw from a larger selection than the tracks from only two other albums, but apparently with her earlier releases being on a different record label the people at Universal either couldn't get the republication rights to them or didn't want to feature anything they didn't already own.
Here are the tracks -- I'll dispense with my usual lengthier descriptions because I've discussed the Superfantástico tracks at greater length in my review of that album, and might do the same for the Christmas album later. So I'll just throw in a handful of brief comments when I feel like it.
Disc 1:
1) Gotita de Amor: A TV show theme song.
2) Superfantástico
3) Viva la Gente (Up with People)
4) Susanita Tiene Un Raton
5) La Fiesta
6) Pajaritos a Volar (Baile de los Pajaritos)
7) Un Pato
8) Baila Conmigo (El Juego de Simon): Very catchy tune. If you can catch the music video for this (which Tatiana shows sometimes on her TV show, but Univision isn't carrying the show at the moment) it's pretty neat, with mixed live-action and animation.
9) En El Bosque de la China
10) Hoy Tengo Que Decirte Papá
11) Mamá
Disc 2:
1) Feliz Navidad: A bilingual song, showing that she can sing in English as well as Spanish.
2) Navidad Rock (Jingle Bell Rock): Spanish version of a rock-n-roll Christmas classic.
3) Las Posadas: Somehow sounds like something you might order at a Mexican restaurant, but actually a "posada" is an inn or guest house.
4) Mamacita, donde esta Santa Claus
5) Adeste Fideles
6) Noche de Paz
7) La Navidad Llego (Joy to the World)
8) Frosty the Snowman: actually a Spanish version of the song, despite keeping the English title
9) Campanas Navideña (Jingle Bells)
10) Auld Lang Syne: A Spanish rendition of a song which most people don't really understand in English. (For your information, "Auld Lang Syne" is Scots dialect for "Old Long-Since", referring to times long ago.)
Now, the collection I'd really like to find is 21 Black Jack, an earlier Tatiana collection that was part of another similar series of 21-track compilations, released around 1990 or so. That's got her early teen-pop songs, most of which aren't otherwise available on CD (her early albums were just put out on LP and cassette). But I have no idea where to find it -- and couldn't review it here even if I did, as it's not in the database!
Recommended:
Yes
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