Paulina Rubio - Ananda

Cheap, boring, commercial & uninteresting

Bought this CD when I was in Florida. Was looking for some latin music, a genre that I like but I don't know many artists.
Got this album as this was in the Latin charts and the cover let me think this is a very happy sounding album.

Unfortunately not. It's a terrible album, with lack of originality and spirit. Not some artist to need to know!
Waste of money, time and energy listening to this record.

(Haven't found a decent female version of Juan Luis Guerra and artists of the same quality) :( September 3, 2008

Pau-pau = zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I really like Paulina, I really do. But let me tell you why I like her. First of all she is a HORRIBLE singer. And that my friends, is why I like her. She's so bad she's good. But when you deliver an album this boring, the awful vocals just don't cut it. I just thought this album was very bland, very boring and uninspiring. I don't think she's done an album this bad since EL TIEMPO ES ORO. And even then that album had some good songs. I just hope her next effort (be it in English or Spanish) is fun and she doesn't try to take herself so seriously. When she does it comes off as a Reik/RBD wannabe sounding album. And that's not saying much. November 14, 2007

With a heavy heart

Guns N' Roses es genial y Slash es uno de mis guitarristas favoritos. Este es el hombre que creó los fabulosos licks de Appetite for Destruction y me duele en el alma y me destruye el corazón verlo envuelto en la producción de esta basura. El álbum es basura y la artista en la carátula posee un talento nulo. Comprar esta producción es simplemente avalar la mediocridad y el mundo estúpido de las telenovelas y de los dioses y figuras creadas al dedillo por los asquerosos Univisión y Telemundo, la maldición de los latinos en los Estados Unidos. Ananda es monstruoso and Paulina (as always, nothing new here) sucks big time. September 2, 2007

Paulina is back in pink.

It took Paulina a while to release a new cd but I think that it was worth the wait. This versatile singer comes back with "ANANDA" that follows her big success of "PAU-LATINA" in the sense of music fusions and sevaral types of music but this time I feel that Paulina has leaned more on rock music instead of her famous rancheras with a touch of hip-hop. Electric guitars are strongly present on tracks such as "NADA PUEDE CAMBIARME" that has Gun's n' Roses's Slash on lead guitar. This song is one of the highlights of the album. In the case of "MIENTEME UNA VEZ MAS" Paulina follows the direction of Evanescence, this song has the very same style of their music and sounds very good with Paulina's voice.
Even though Paulina has concentrated more on rock, I also feel that she wanted to release something for everybody. But this is easy to understand because of group of people that she has chosen for this production. She has the style of Coti with the Ballad "AYUDAME". A mix between Coti and Julieta Venegas on "QUE ME VOY A QUEDAR" which is a catchy song but honestly the lyrics have no sense. She also had Junes as songwriter on "NO TE CAMBIO" this song is really good because it starts the first verse with flamenco and then starts a very nice combination between a very soft reggaeton, a bit of ballenato, pop and hip-hop a real gem for the album. The song that has the biggest ranchera style on the album is "AUNQUE NO SEA CONMIGO" but doesn't have a strong influence as "DAME OTRO TEQUILA" or "EL ULTIMO ADIOS".
"ANANDA" also has pop songs like "RETRATO", "N.O" and the first single "NI UNA SOLA PALABRA" written by Xabi San Martin from Spain's La Oreja De Van Gogh. Comparing this album with her previous one "PAU-LATINA"...well I think that "ANANDA" is very good I really enjoy it but "PAU-LATINA" was more solid, maybe I think this because I heard it more and I got more used to it. The one thing I wanted not to find again is the interludes after each song, they're really short but unnecessary. A positive thing about this production, is the booklet because it has several pictures and lyrics.

To finish this review I think that even though the critics for this album were not very positive. I think that it's a very good step for Paulina. The first single became a #1 hit in the U.S for several weeks and #2 in the main chart of all Latin America and gave Paulina her third entrance on Billboard's Hot 100 with a song that wasn't in English. The album debuted at #1 in the U.S on Top Latin Albums list and #25 on Billboard's 200 and became #1 also in several territories and sold up to 500,000 copies on its release week. Anyway, this is just commercial information but I think that the album is good maybe not her best but good, you won't be sorry with it if you like her music. February 28, 2007

Good Cd

I was on a surf trip in miami of all places listening to mega 94.9 latino and proud (im a white kid from new jersey) after 3 raggeton songs, which really sounded like one song that changed keys because the beat is the same, this fresh sounding female voice entered over a regular rockbeat. It was ni una sola palabra. I was interested and after i heard the beautiful chord changes in her voice after the chorus I had to find out who she is. She is paulina rubio, she is HOT, and i liked ni una sola palabra so i bought ananda and I really enjoyed it. The album is a good sampling of rock, dance, and traditional, with even a little western in sin final. I especially like track 4, it sounds very "epic" (i have no idea what she is saying) but the music is good and the drumbeat is suprisingly complicated. Mexican popstars are WAY better than gringos! Latino and Proud! February 1, 2007

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