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Escape | enrique_l
ENRIQUE SUAVE Iglesias' new album offers a bland brand of ''Escape''-ism
Enrique Iglesias: Joseph Cultice/Corbis Outline

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Release Date: Oct 30, 2001; Lead Performance: Enrique Iglesias
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By David Browne
David Browne
David Browne
David Browne is EW's music critic and author of ''Dream Brother: The Lives & Music of Jeff & Tim Buckley'' (HarperCollins)

Will Iglesias be remembered for more than his surname and ability to sing with sucked-in cheeks? Not if his second English-language album is any indication. It's hard to say which is worse: the techno-lite ode to masochistic love (''Love to See You Cry''), the smarmy ''Making Love for Fun'' (''So baby just relax/And let me do my thing''), the stalkerish title track (''You can run, you can hide/But you can't escape my love''), or simply the way he sings ''She be the one/She be the bomb'' in ''She Be the One,'' one of numerous odes to wicked women. Toss in vacuous singing, gauzy arrangements, and a song called ''I Will Survive'' that nicks both its title and chorus from the disco anthem, and ''Escape'' is a train wreck that keeps on giving.


Posted Oct 29, 2001
 

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