Blog Nº4: "Shakira MTV Unplugged"

Hello to everyone!

Today I’m going to write about one of my favorite live record of all time: “Shakira MTV Unplugged”.

Shakira is one of my favorite artists of all time (alongside with Madonna and Christina Aguilera) and I truly love this album (released the day February 29^th, 2000).

I think that the first time that I heard it (consciously) were when I was in high school and I started to discover the type of music that I most liked. I’ve already heard “Dónde están los ladrones” (Shakira’s album released in 1998) and it have become one of my most played records of all time, so when I heard the Unplugged, which ten of the eleven songs are live versions of the tracks of “Dónde están los ladrones”, I immediately fell in love with this live record.

It’s hard for me to say which songs of this album are my preferred, but those that I most enjoy hearing are “Moscas en la Casa”, “Inevitable”, “Estoy Aquí” and “No Creo”. The only thing that really drives mad about this record is that the only track of “Dónde están los ladrones” that wasn’t played in this concert is “Que Vuelvas”, my favorite song of that record, and one of my favorite record of all the Shakira’s songs!

Well, that’s everything for today, thank you a lot for reading!

Fun Fact: Because I write about this album, I have the need of hear it again, so I think that is what I’m going to do now.

 Blog Nº3: "The Meaning of Mariah Carey"

Hello to everyone!!

Well, today is a free topic so I decided to write about a book that I recently read. This book is called “The Meaning of Mariah Carey” and is written by Mariah Carey and Michaela Angela Davis.

This is an autobiography, and oh my god it’s very good!! Basically, spills all the tea that everyone wanted to know. The book is separated in four sections.

The first one tells everything about her childhood, and honestly is sad as hell, sometimes when I was reading it, I feel like I wanted to a cry a little, because her relationship with her family is absolutely not good.

The second one tells how she got her record contract, her awful relationship with her first husband Tommy Mottola (who was also the principal executive of Sony Music at the time), how she managed to get away of him, a lot of stories about the creative process of a lot of her 90’s bops (“Vision of love”, “Make It Happen”, “Hero”, “Always be my Baby”, etc.).  And how she basically invented the songs between a pop artist and a hip-hop artist.

The third one tells everything related to the “Loverboy” drama and the fourth one tells a lot of little stories from 2000 onwards (her relationship with Luis Miguel, her biggest comeback with “We Belong Together”, her second marriage, how she became a mother and how she is now).

This book is important to me because is the first book that I have ever read that is fully in English and I recommend it to everyone who knows a little of Mariah Carey.

That’s everything for today, thank you a lot for reading!