Actually Ria, there is a specific theme to the CD. It's the story of a love affair told from beginning to end...looking for someone, meeting someone, falling in love, falling out of love and looking for love again. Acording to Michael, he wanted to go a similar route as his "Alone Together" show, telling a story entirely through song, but to make it a bit more commercially accessable. If you look at the track list, you can see that the songs (and the song order) is in keeping with this theme. I think it will be great, and I love the fact that the music crosses not only different musical genres, but that he chose songs from almost every decade, the 20's through today. I agree that this will also show Michael's great vocal versatility. As for the duet with Antonio...I think it's probably meant to be a fun thing and given Antonio's current high profile here in the States I don't think it will hurt Michael at all. It will introduce him to a whole new audience if Banderas' fans buy the CD.
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