Bega's huge European hit! Contains four mixes (Radio Edit, Extended Mix, Havanna Club Mix and The Trumpet) of this huge remake of Tito Puente's Latin jazz classic. Slimline jewel case. 1999 release.
Bega's huge European hit! Contains four mixes (Radio Edit, Extended Mix, Havanna Club Mix and The Trumpet) of this huge remake of Tito Puente's Latin jazz classic. Slimline jewel case. 1999 release.
Totally un-"PC", rude to women and a great hit! ;)
indie_in_kalli | Chico, CA! :) | 04/19/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"As a woman I obviously cannot speak for all women (after reading the reviews) however I think this is a great song, *especially* for dancing! Not everything that is not PC (politically correct) has to be bad - once you just let go and like it for what it is, you won't want to turn it off! True, if my daughter ever had a boyfriend playing this then I'd change my opinion, however for the time being she's only 3 so I have nothing to worry about. :) My husband laughs and tells me that if he had come home singing this I would have thrown a fit (grin) ... but since I found this song first I can say I think it's the coolest. LOL"
A song that is hard not to listen to, when it is playing.
Charles M. Moss | Millersville, MD United States | 11/20/2002
(4 out of 5 stars)
"I think that the video helped to propell the song. All of those pretty women-Monica, Jessica, Sarah, etc. etc. You will enjoy the cd once you receive it. You just gotta have it."
Good song, but it is NOT A REMAKE OF PEREZ PRADO!
E. Robertson Scott | Chicago | 04/27/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Despite the fact that I am a middle-of-the-road feminist (i.e., I think women are equal to men and should be allowed to do anything men can do except spit in public) I like this song a lot. It's fun, not meant to be taken seriously and as an expresssion of a young man's ambivalence about women (can't live with 'em and ya can't live without 'em) it serves its purpose. As a previous review wrote, this song should be played in sanitariums and it would help cure the depressed.
But the main reason I am writing is to disabuse anyone of the notion that this is a remake of Perez Prado's Mambo No. 5. Perez Prado wrote a lot of commercial music in the 40s and 50s, such as the blanded-down-for-American-tastes "Patricia." But he also wrote a lot of stuff that was avante-garde and musically superior.
The Bega song contains samples of the 50's hit that are about 1 second long. And that, and a semi-Latin rhythm, is all it has in the common with the monster hit of Latin music in the 50s.
So it's a fun song. Is it offensive? Maybe, but it's what he wrote, not national policy, so why care?"
If you need your spirits lifted here is the tune
Karen D. Larry-Moyer | Cuyahoga Falls, OH USA | 09/11/2002