tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5337928381503123558.post6771888649403565743..comments2024-03-09T15:09:42.745-06:00Comments on BILBO'S LAPTOP: JON SECADA, “OTRO DÍA MÁS SIN VERTE”Jonathan Bogarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12642591944483957225noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5337928381503123558.post-25336141463234931962010-10-16T19:56:18.586-05:002010-10-16T19:56:18.586-05:00This song was big, definitely got hunks of play on...This song was big, definitely got hunks of play on VH1; I'll bet a lot of Americans who listened to music at that time will hear it and go "Oh, <i>that</i> one," though probably not remembering the name of the performer. I'd say it has significant elements of the rock power ballad, which was bleeding into adult contemporary. Also, it grabs me all over again, though it didn't make my Pazz & Jop ballot. (Magneto, La Sonora Dinamita, Caifanes, Fobia, and Xuxa did, however [also Laissez Faire and Margie Martinée, if freestyle is relevant to the discussion]; not that I know shit about Latin popular music; just happened to hear more than usual that year through Chuck Eddy and Patty Stirling).<br /><br />"If You Go" was the other one of Secada's that I remember having a mainstream American impact, i.e., we reviewed it for <i>Radio On</i>, the fanzine predecessor to The Singles Jukebox.Frank Koganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18057423908971950296noreply@blogger.com