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Lou Bega: A Little Bit of Mambo
What sounds like an early-model Casio playing "Wake Me
Up Before You Go Go" quickly gives way to a classic Perez Prado riff. On
top of it all, Lou Bega--born in Germany to a Ugandan father and Italian
mother--hoarsely exhorts the floor to "Mambo No. 5." A runaway hit in
more than a dozen countries, it's an agreeable trifle, if ultimately not as
charming as "Macarena" proved to be a few summers back. Throughout
this cash-in album, Bega comes off like a cross between a less clever Tone-Loc
and a less inspired Buster Poindexter. If there's a great Europop-Cuban fusion
in the making, its standard-bearers will have to come up with more durable
trashy fun than this.
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