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Originally posted by QueenBeé
She really should go back to recording Spanish albums or English songs with Latin genre. American pop/R&B/rock is not her thing.
I ADORE Sale El Sol.
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I disagree. Pop/Rock is very much her thing. That is what broufht her success in that Latin market before she crossed over into English when she was a heavy folk and rock leaning artist ala Alanis.
It's actually something of a testament to the impact of Ricky Martin back in the day that every Latin act that crossed over after him were practicaly indebted to adopt his tropes of superficial "latin" sounds, leather pants, hip shaking, videos of them in writhing in some kind of liqiud if they wanted mainstream success.
Granted this was a problem even before the Latin-pop fad. The industry tends to think of Latin artists as being...well latin looking and sounding albeit in stereotypical ways however putting aside that isn't necessarily their core appeal it can easily come off as a novelty. The underperfomance on She Wolf and Waka Waka in places like the US and UK suggests that perhaps the novelty is wearing off.