Ricky Martin - Ricky Martin • CDs • Vinyl Records • LPs • Music Albums

sentiments into pop's current mania for novelty, as does another inspired lark, "Shake Your Bon-Bon." Martin and Madonna, meantime, go through the roof getting serious on "Be Careful (Cuidado con Mi CorazĂłn)," a perfectly constructed ballad co-produced by the great William Orbit. The history of Latin pop is crowded with distinction. Yet often enough on Ricky Martin, this sudden superstar and his unsleepy producers make it into a new thrill. (RS 814)

JAMES HUNTER

The dancing, the slim hips, the chin cleft -- it all helped, but what really made Ricky Martin a pop mainstay in the U.S. was this album. Let's face it: everyone wants to shake their "bon-bon" even if they don't know what it is. And besides soaring to No. 1 on pop charts, "Livin' La Vida Loca" fed a new Spanish phrase into the English language.