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Ricky Martin - Shake Your Bon-Bon Audio CD

A fair review of the Ricky Martin "Shake Your Bon-Bon" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Ricky Martin reviews here, or go back to the Ricky Martin tabs.

Ricky Martin Band: Ricky Martin
Title: Shake Your Bon-Bon
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Release Date: 2000-01-18
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Shake Your Bon-Bon [Album Version] 2: Shake Your Bon-Bon [Eddie Arroyo Club Mix] 3: Shake Your Bon-Bon [Fernando Garibay Club Mix] 4: She's All I Ever Had [Hex Hector 12" Club Mix] 5: Almost a Love Song [Casi un Bolero]

cool :)
i like this single and i wouldn't buy it if it wasn't worth it :). i love RM music so it's hard 2 say i'm objective.


Hardly appealing
'Shake your bon bon' with its' nonsensical lyrics, yet amusingly catcy chorus, has since become standard fare on the dance floor and in gay clubs throughout the country. Ricky has long been revered as some sort of closet god, and with this release, its obvious why. However, to put this song on a Maxi-Cd in hopes that people would want to rush out and grab it, is illogical.

Martin's song is fun, yes, and more fun if you watch it along with the video, but as a pop single its just far too noisy and messed up to merit repeat listening. I felt the same with 'Vida Loca', which, all said and done, was a better song. Martin fans should have learnt that buying the Ricky album is quite enough. Wasting your money on his single releases is not at all worth it, especially if the song is as tacky and cheesy as this one. Miss this.


almost a love song
It is a gorgeous song in Spanish. casi un bolero (almost a love song) is my favorite song off of Vuelve. I was very eager to hear the english translation and was stunned at how faithful the translation is. It is just as haunting and beautiful in English. By this cd for this one song alone. It should have been included on his English album, and its a crime that it is on a B-side to Shake Your Bon-Bon.


Shake it one more time, Ricky!
While lyrically, it's rather weak and downright silly, that's what makes it so irresistable. The third single from his eponymous English album, Shake Your Bon-bon is sort of an enigma. Take this for example: 'Up in the Himalayas, I wanna lay ya. . . ' Hmmm. . . . He sure is trying very hard to beef up his sex symbol image isn't he? :-) But put it to an irresistable samba-pop beat and voila! Pure pop delight. It's a pity the song didn't go very high on Billboard Hot 100. Bad marketing and a Ricky media backlash has made it the worst performing Ricky Martin single to date. But don't let that stop you from getting this remixes collection.

An added bonus in the form of the Hex Hector remix of 'She's All I Ever Had' should get you shaking your bon-bons if the first three tracks don't. And when you've had all the fun sweating it off, unwind to 'Almost A Love Song' a gem of a track in which Ricky sings of a lost love with so much emotion you'd think he was talking about his own heartbreak over Rebecca De Alba. Or maybe he was.


Dance, Ricky, Dance!
The one track that stands out the most is the Hex Hector club remix of "She's All I Ever Had. Ricky Martins current single is pretty good. " Once again Hex manages to pump up this ballad to an awsome club track. The remixes of "Shake Your Bon-Bon" are not all that bad either. Theres the Eddie Arroyo club mix and the Fernando Garibay club mix. I highly recommend this single to any one who likes dance/club music. The Hex Hector remix of "She's All I Ever Had" is reason enough to buy it.


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