Ricky Martin : A Quien Quiera Escuchar
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Ricky Martin : A Quien Quiera Escuchar

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Oh Ricky you’re so fine, you’re so fine you blow my mind, hey Ricky! Hey Ricky! OK. Now that’s out of my system, firstly I want to declare, I’m not a middle-aged woman looking for love in the bottom of her gin and tonic, but I do admit to hip gyrating to Ricky Martin at a wedding once. Can I remember? Not really.

I was probably dancing to songs off his Greatest Hits record like Livin’ la Vida Loca, She Bangs, Shake your Bon Bon, or sipping from the eternal Cup of Life. That’s the Ricky I know. But post releasing his best of in 2013, the Puerto Rican superstar Ricky Martin is milking out his first studio album in four years, the entirely Spanish affair, A Quien Quiera Escuchar (To Whoever Wants to Listen). If your Spanish vocabulary is as expansive as mine, and limited to, no Nintendo, grassy arse, and dos cerveza por favor, don’t throw away the record just yet, lather yourself and your lover in salsa and dance around on your living room floor to some sensual Latino beats. Afterwards, you can make sweet, sweet nachos together. As the big Rick says, “This is baby making music.”

He isn’t wrong. There are two distinct sides to this record, the vertical dancing foreplays ­– Adiós, Isla Bella, Náufrago, Cuanto Me Acuerdo de Ti; and the horizontal two step finishers – Disparo Al Corazón, Perdóname, La Mordidita, Mátame Otra Vez.The two tango almost interchangeably, from dance floor banger to bedroom banger. Get ready for some babies being born in November.

The million-dollar question is, do I turn my chair around in a dramatic Voice style fashion? No. Maybe if I wanted to get drunk on Sangria and relive the Johnston St Latin Fiesta. All jokes aside, if A Quien Quiera Escuchar is not enough Ricky for you, spin the deluxe edition with three extra acoustic tracks, better still, slip on the track-by-track commentary – if you can speak Spanish.

BY LEE SPENCER-MICHAELSEN