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| | village voice > music > Ricky Martin; Jennifer Lopez; Chris Perez Band by Franklin Ibanez Soults |
 | | Bronx-born beauty Jennifer Lopez hasn't scored as big yet, but that's not to say she hasn't gone far: On the 6 debuted in the Billboard top 10, and "If You Had My Love" bumped "Livin' La Vida Loca" down to No. 2 on the singles chart (both are platinum, natch). |
 | | Martin, Perez, and, to a lesser extent, Lopez make the sexiness signify by also luxuriating in the flip side of the Hot Latin cliché: the overripe, overwrought romanticism that has long been Hispanic music's gift to international pop. |
 | | Crucially, neither Martin, Lopez, nor Perez serves it straight up—they tease it into forms recognizable by a Stateside audience that still sees everything in plain shades of fl and white, with no distinct room for brown (yet). |
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