Ximena Sariñana (album)

Ximena Sariñana is the eponymous second studio album released by Mexican singer Ximena Sariñana. After the success of Mediocre, with sales of more than 100,000 copies in Mexico, Warner Music Group producers proposed that Ximena Sariñana record a second album. The album contains ten songs in English and one in Spanish, the latter produced by Natalia Lafourcade. Sariñana entered the studio in 2009 when she began recording a song for the soundtrack of the second installment of the Twilight series, Twilight: New Moon.

Sariñana composed and wrote an estimated thirty-five songs of which 10 were selected to form the track list of the eponymous second album. She has performed in several concerts touring with Sara Bareilles.

Following this tour, she began filming the video for her first single from the second album, "Different", which was choreographed by Michael Rooney. The video was released on July 26, 2011 by AOL and has over 5,000,000 views on YouTube.^[2]

Ximena's sound has been summarized as pop/electropop, but critics praised her ability to write.

Production

Before the success of her debut album 'Mediocre', Warner Music Group producers proposed Sariñana to record a second album, but now, it had to break any single wall between languages. Following this rule, Sariñana agreed with them and shortly started writing and composing. The album contains eleven songs, from which ten are in English and one is in Spanish, the latter being written by Natalia LaFourcade.

Ximena started recording in the studio in 2009 when she recorded a song for the Twilight Series: New Moon soundtrack. The producers wanted the genre to be Blues; that song was released as the second single from the soundtrack, as the video was available online and a sort of TV channels, Sariñana started composing and writing songs for new material, she managed to write around thirty-five songs form which only ten made it in the final cut. Sariñana decided to name the album as herself because she always had the desire of having an album with her own name. Sariñana performed in several concerts of Sara Bareilles' tour, she later started filming her music video for the first single of the album called "Different" of which its choreography was directed by Michael Rooney. The music video was uploaded on July 26 by the morning on AOL and currently has accumulated more than 5 million views on YouTube. The record has a production that many people calls as 'widely commercial' by the fact that has a more electro-pop vibe than the acoustic pop that Sariñana used for three years, however, some critics praise her ability to write as the singer-songwriter composed the album in its full length which have made it being promoted on VH1 in the United States in "You Oughta Know". Meanwhile in iTunes the song "Shine Down" was made available as a present, the music video for the song was directed by Omar Rodriguez-López.

Track listing

All songs composed by Sariñana. Additional credits are noted:

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