Marc Anthony comes on like a suave, less jumpy alternative to Ricky Martin on
this mostly English-language album. Having already introduced itself to the pop
mainstream with the salsa-tinged single "I Need to Know," Marc Anthony offers
several other obvious crossover hits, ranging from the Rodney Jerkins-produced
Latin-funk fusion of "She's Been Good to Me" to the lovelorn midtempo ballad
"When I Dream at Night." However, Anthony's agreeably keening voice is too often
applied to the sort of colorless adult-contemporary material typical of Michael
Bolton and Mariah Carey mainstay Walter Afansieff, who produces or coproduces
three tracks here. The result is often more interesting in sociological
terms--Anthony fans who, like the star, were born to Latino parents in America
are as sure to eat this disc up as his new Caucasian admirers--than in musical
ones. Ain't that America? --Rickey Wright
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