Pau-Latina

Pau-Latina
Studio album by Paulina Rubio
Released	February 10, 2004
Recorded	2003
Genre	Latin Pop
Length	54:09
Label	Universal Latino
Producer	Chris Rodriguez Marzello Acevedo Emilio Estefan Jr. Toy Hernández Sasha Triujeque Sergio George Marteen Richard Vission
Paulina Rubio chronology
Border Girl (2002) Pau-Latina (2004) Ananda (2006) Singles from Pau-Latina "Te Quise Tanto" "Algo Tienes" "Dame Otro Tequila" "Mia"

Pau-Latina is the seventh solo studio album by Mexican singer Paulina Rubio. It was released in the United States by Universal Latino on February 10, 2004.

The Album

"Te Quise Tanto" is Rubio's most successful single to date, which spent six non-consecutive weeks at #1 and earned several music awards. The album's third single, "Dame Otro Tequila", also climbed to #1 in December 2004. Although "Algo Tienes" and "Mía" were the only other two singles released by Rubio's record label, that did not prevent tracks like "My Friend, Mi Amigo", "Perros", "Alma En Libertad" and "Volverás" from gaining airplay with no promotion on behalf of Paulina's record label.

The album was nominated for a Latin Grammy Award in 2004 for Best Female Pop Vocal Album and a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Vocal Album in 2005.

With this album, Rubio became one of the few female latin singers to achieve four top ten singles from a single album in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart: "Te Quise Tanto" (#1), "Algo Tienes" (#4), "Dame Otro Tequila" (#1) and "Mia" (#8).

Review

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Paulina Rubio's decision to return to an all-Spanish format for Pau-Latina might acknowledge the 2002 English crossover attempt Border Girl as a slight misstep if her latest didn't drop its bits and pieces of Mexican instrumentation and language into such an ambitious and entertaining stew. As its colorfully kinetic, Björk-like cover art suggests, Pau-Latina is all over the place, and usually at a hundred miles an hour. "Baila Que Baila" mashes ringing mariachi guitars into the blips and bytes of an Ashanti-style contempo R&B number; there's even a hip-hop break to suggest the contribution of a Ja Rule or Jay-Z. "Quiero Cambiarme" and "Ojalá" take traditional horn blasts and robust supporting harmonies into a wild and disorienting future of neon-light electronica, while the dancefloor-ready "Algo Tienes"' bashing percussion and rock guitar would fit nicely on Shakira's Laundry Service. (The track also appears in an instrumental remix format.) Throughout Pau-Latina, there's an alluring scratchiness to Rubio's voice. Is she perpetually on the verge of raucous, contagious laughter? It's a definite that "Alma en Libertad" hijacks the lead riff from John Mellencamp's "Small Town", but it's an equally robust feel-good anthem that's impossible to shake from the brain. Neither the melodies nor the adventurism stops there. The lusty "Dame Otro Tequila" would make a nun thirsty, while the ballad "Mía" is a lush departure from the album's constant kicky beats. Pau-Latina is sure to please fans of 2000's Paulina. But the feisty, stylistic restlessness at its heart does more for Rubio's crossover potential than the pleasing though ultimately same-y beats of Border Girl ever could.

Tour

Rubio started her the first solo concert tour named "Pau-lenques" in support of this album.

Track listing

#	Song	Length	Composer
1	Algo Tienes	3:07	C. Rodriguez/M. Benito
2	My Friend, Mi Amigo	3:31	P. Rubio/A. Levin/I. Padrón
3	Te Quise Tanto	4:05	C. Sorokin/Andahí/A. Schinoff
4	Baila Que Baila	3:36	T. Méndez/E. Pérez/J. de Jesús/P. Rubio/Tea Time
5	Ojalá	3:28	M. Solís
6	Perros	3:49	J. Villamizar/X. Uribe
7	Quiero Cambiarme	2:20	E. Estefan/R. Gaitán/A. Gaitán/N. Tovar
8	Mia	3:33	E. Estefan/R. Gaitán/A. Gaitán/T. Mardoni/T. McWilliams
9	Alma En Libertad	3:54	J. Villamizar/J. Pérez-Soto
10	Adiosito Corazón	3:12	J. Villamizar
11	Amor Secreto	4:12	R. Barba
12	Volverás	5:06	A. Chirino/T. Mitchell/C. Ostwald
13	Dame Otro Tequila	2:48	E. Estefan/R. Gaitán/A. Gaitán/T. Mardoni/T. McWilliams
14	Dame Tu Amor	5:00	P. Rubio/C. Brant/R. Vission/G. Brown/A. Cee
15	Algo Tienes (Instrumental)[Hidden track]	7:28	C. Rodriguez/M. Benito

Singles

Official (with music video)

1. "Te Quise Tanto" #1*
2. "Algo Tienes" #4*
3. "Dame Otro Tequila" #1*
4. "Mia" #8*

• Hot Latin Tracks

Radial

These songs charted as well.

• "Alma en Libertad"
• "Volverás"
• "Perros"
• "My Friend, Mi Amigo"

Personnel

Archie Pena — producer
Sebastian Krys — mixing
Sergio George — keyboards, drum programming, producer
Marteen — producer
Tom Coyne — mastering
Javier Garza — engineer
Marcello Azevedo — guitar, bajo sexto, arranger, producer, keyboards
Jorge González — engineer
Alfred Figueroa — engineer, mixing
Bob "Bassy" Bob Brackmann — mixing
Toy Hernández — producer, engineer
Tony Mardini — engineer, Mmixing
Felipe Tichauer — engineer
Teatime — rap
Mike Weitman — mixing assistant
Max Kolibe — engineer
Sacha Triujeque — producer, engineer
Chris Rodriguez — arranger, producer, programming
Frank Maddocks — graphic design, art direction
Javier Carrion — engineer
Steven Sunset — engineer
Richard McLaren — photography
Tata Bigorra — coros
Jake R. Tañer — engineer
Gaitán Bros. — producer
Danita Ruiz — management
Caresse Henry — management
MC Wave — rap
Cesar Nieto — DJ
Paulina Rubio — executive producer
Carlos Alvarez — engineer
Hal Batt — engineer
Scott Canto — engineer
Emilio Estefan, Jr. — didjeridu, producer

Charts and certifications

Charts Chart Position Argentina 1 Chile 1 Colombia 1 Mexico AMPROFON 1 Paraguay 1 Spain 14 U.S. Billboard 200 105 U.S. Billboard Top Latin Albums 1 U.S. Billboard Latin Pop Albums 1 Venezuela 1

Certifications Region Certification Sales/shipments Mexico (AMPROFON)[2] Platinum 100,000^ United States (RIAA)[3] 2× Platinum (Latin) 200,000^ ^shipments figures based on certification alone

References

1. ^ Allmusic review
2. ^ "Mexican album certifications – Paulina Rubio – Pau-Latina" (in Spanish). Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas. http://www.amprofon.com.mx/certificaciones.php?artista=Paulina+Rubio&titulo=Pau-Latina&categoria=ALBUM&contenido=buscar. 
3. ^ "American album certifications – Paulina Rubio – Pau-Latina". Recording Industry Association of America. http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?artist=%22Pau-Latina%22.  If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click Type, then select Latin, then click SEARCH

External links

• Paulina Rubio: Pau-Latina - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect

Procession and succession

Preceded by Crónica de Dos Grandes by Los Bukis and Bronco	U.S. Billboard Top Latin Albums number-one album (first run) February 28 - March 6, 2001	Succeeded by Intimamente by Intocable
Preceded by Travesía by Víctor Manuelle	U.S. Billboard Top Latin Albums number-one album (second run) April 3, 2004	Succeeded by En Vivo Desde Chicago by Grupo Montéz de Durango