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Dated af? Excuse you it was produced by RedOne who was the king of the game back then and a true hitmaker but maybe because many hits in 2011 and 2012 were made by him, BWBB sounded like any other song out there. Imo, Brava! could've been Border Girl 2.0 had it had a good plan but that whole era was a mess. Imo, Me Gustas Tanto should've been released in Latin America only while BWBB should've been released in the US and internationally and then take it from there. Why release 4 editions of an album barely promoted and barely had any good sales?

Come one, BWBB wasn't that bad. The remix she performed on the X Factor was legendary. The song was an iconic hit in Spain in summer of 2012.

Yo Soy was good Me Gusta was very bad Propriad Privada was actually very good No Es Mi Culpa was okay Ballada Pop was meh

Take the lead and guide us all to those millionaires!

She did a Versus tour with Alejandra but I'm all for a Thalia project

Thalia flops with collabs nowadays because the music she releases is so bad.

Because I refuse to believe Paulina has to spend the rest of her career doing nostalgia festivals while everyone pretends "Ni Una Sola Palabra" was 20 years ago and not yesterday. So let's be serious for a second: What is the actual move for Paulina's next album? Does she go full electropop / dance-pop, get the hottest producers imaginable and make an album that sounds expensive enough to justify the hair flips? Does she lean into Latin pop + reggaetón, but WITHOUT doing the obligatory "generic dembow beat + random male rapper" package that every pop girl (Thalia?) is apparently legally required to purchase? Does she go rock-pop / glamorous adult pop, basically giving "Mexican pop legend who has absolutely nothing left to prove"? Or does she do the most dangerous thing of all: make a genuinely great, cohesive pop album with zero desperation to chase TikTok? Because honestly, I think Paulina's biggest asset is that she has a very specific identity. You hear that voice, the attitude, the blonde, the whole Chica Dorada mythology and you know exactly who you're dealing with. The problem is: how do you translate that into 2026 without turning her into a tribute act to herself? Also: who should she collaborate with? Bad Bunny? Karol G? Tainy? Tokischa? A pop girl? An unexpected rock artist? Or should she avoid the feature Olympics entirely and prove she can carry an era herself? And most importantly: What would a Paulina Rubio HIT in 2026 actually sound like? Because I need ATRL to put on its collective A&R hat and fix this woman's career before somebody books her for another "90s & 2000s Icons" tour. 😭 DISCUSS. What's the strategy, what's the sound, and who is producing this album?

Gold diggers.

No?? Who does that?

No.

It's a tie between Gloria and Paulina. Some media outlets even called Paulina 'la Madonna mexicana' at some point of her career.

That song is so powerful and his first album was absolutely one of the best male debut albums.

I'll vote for ZAYN because he's pro-Palestine but I know I streamed Shallow way more

Yes, anyone who's proudly and unapologetically pro-Israel and/or a Zionist.

Trash? Let her release anything at all nowadays.

WE WON!!! Now Pau, go make another Ni Una Sola Palabra pls

Paulina Rubio has prevailed in a legal dispute with her former partner, Nicolás Vallejo-Nágera, over the residence of their 15-year-old son, Andrea Nicolás. The Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in Miami-Dade County rejected the businessman's request to move the teenager to Madrid and approved the parenting-plan modification sought by the singer. The ruling was issued on August 9, 2026, by Judge Marlene Fernandez-Karavetsos, following proceedings that included several days of trial between February and May, testimony from a court-appointed representative for the minor, and a private interview with the teenager. In its ruling, the court determined that Nicolás Vallejo-Nágera had failed to demonstrate that moving to Spain would be in his son's best interests. The judge also found that there was insufficient evidence to substantiate allegations that the teenager had suffered physical or mental abuse at the hands of Paulina Rubio. The judge further noted that Colate's move to Spain was a personal decision and found no evidence that the singer had interfered with his employment opportunities in Miami, as he had alleged in his petition. Source: QUIEN

Paulina won, as always!

"Queen of Gen Z Songwriting" because she rhymed "espresso" with "that's that me espresso"? The tongue-in-cheek raunchy humor and the little outro jokes are cute, but calling her the absolute blueprint of songwriting for an entire generation when she's just recycling the same generic synth-pop loops is a massive stretch.

He'll wake up the second someone mentions crowd sizes or the fake news media or Netanyahu.

Why would they do this? They really treated the Queen of Atlanta like she was on the Most Wanted list when her license was just suspended.

Our favorite gold-plated, bronzer-drenched, iconic legend officially hits the double-fives today! For over three decades, La Chica Dorada has been giving the Latin music industry hits, high-camp visuals, and the kind of unhinged diva interviews that the new generation of pop girls could only dream of mimicking. Let's be real, the music industry would be so boring without her. While the local girlies are busy micromanaging their public image to look perfectly relatable, Paulina has spent her entire life doing exactly whatever she wants. Whether she's redefining Latin crossover pop with Paulina and Pau-Latina, dominating the Billboard charts with "Y Yo Sigo Aquí" and "Ni Una Sola Palabra," or completely missing the cue on live television, she is always the main event. She gave us the ultimate popstar blueprint: she brought regional Mexican accordions into commercial dance tracks, she turned a basic gold aesthetic into a multi-million-dollar brand, and she taught us that if you sing with enough confidence, vocal range doesn't even matter. Happy birthday to the forever queen of Mexican Pop! Drop your favorite Pau tracks, your most iconic live vocal performances, and your best receipts below to celebrate!

She has to keep him fed, babes. God knows he's not getting fed any touchdowns on the field lately.

Joanne is good tbh.

Let's travel back to the early 90s when the two supreme dictators of Mexican pop left their bubblegum group to build their solo empires. Both debuts were massive, defining moments, but which era actually gave the superior blueprint for a future legend? Thalia (1990): The provocative, flower-child awakening. Thalia wanted us to know she was a grown-up rock-pop diva, releasing hyper-controversial singles like "Un Pacto Entre los Dos" (which the media clocked for being sadomasochistic) and "Saliva" (which was literally banned on Mexican radio). It sold over 200,000 copies in its first month and established her as a master of media manipulation and camp before the telenovelas even took over. La Chica Dorada (1992): The ultimate branding masterclass. Paulina didn't just drop an album; she rebranded her entire existence into a gold-plated aesthetic. Backed by EMI Latin, she hit Number 1 in Mexico and reached Number 3 on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart with the iconic stalker anthem "Mío." It went Platinum, and she spent the entire era serving high-energy teen pop while drenched in gold lamé and bronzer. So, base, let's vote. Are we signing the blood pact with Thalia's messy, rock-infused solo birth, or are we bowing down to the pristine, corporate-pop gold standard of early Paulina?