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"I Want You" Featured on Nickelodeon's Nick Video Pick Wednesday

Source: thalia.com newsletter - July 1,2003
TW correspondent: Luisa

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Thalia In-Stores

Source: thalia.com newsletter - July 1, 2003
TW correspondent: Luisa

Thalia will be appearing at stores in Miami, New York, New Jersey, and LA during  release week. Join her to celebrate the release of the record. Be sure to arrive early!

Here is the schedule:

Thalia in Big Boy's Neighborhood

Source: Power106FM - June 19, 2003
TW Correspondent: Jram23

The popular spanish singer, actress Thalia came through the Neighborhood talking about her latest single with Fat Joe and her new partnership with KMART. Below is a transcript of the interview with Thalia.

Big Boy: First off welcome neighborhood.

Thalia: 0 thank you thank you for having me here I'm so happy.

Big Boy: you have the best energy though, you're like a megastar and you can buy us for damn near nothing...

Liz: Yeah and her and my mom were in the front room exchanging recipes.

Thalia: Yes, chicken soup.

Joe: Thalia, can you make us some?

Thalia: No I'm the worst, I can poison you when I cook. And I can poison you with Tequila. I make the best drinks, forget about it.

Big Boy: You've transitioned into more English-speaking music, like your cut from Fat Joe. Why did you bless us with that?

Thalia: You know what happened? I feel more comfortable in the (English) language and now I feel fluent speaking English, but my accent I can't do anything about. I'm having fun now, I'm enjoying myself creating new styles and making fusions of different styles of music. The opportunity of having Corey Rooney as a producer or Rick Wake or Steve Morales, who just worked with Christina Aguilera. You know those guys surrounded me in this project and for me it was a blessing you know.

Big Boy: How long are you in town love?

Thalia: Ay, just for today. We are still in the middle of this promotion because the song (I Want You) is doing so well. Thank you for playing my song.

Big Boy: It's one of those songs that is a given you know? Thalia: This is the kind of song, you know, when you wake up sad or tired or whatever, you just play the song and it's going to give you energy. It puts you in a good mood. Big Boy: Going to your website puts me in a good mood. Thalia: The video is great too. Working with Dave Myers as the director. Oh my God he's one of my favorite guys. He suggested we make it real and do it (the video) in the Bronx. I said great, all my friends live there, all the Latinos and it went great.

Big Boy: Do you get mobbed a lot?

Thalia: No, what happens is I just feel like a normal girl, and if someone approaches me in the streets and says "Hey Thalia, give me your autograph", I'm like so open to it. You know they are the people who support you and buy your albums and the least you can do is give them your autograph or whatever you know.

Big Boy: So you're not one of those ladies who would just walk by?

Thalia: no, no-no-no.

Big Boy: How many albums do you have (now)?

Thalia: This is number ten, but it's like my first. Let me tell you something, for me, the 10th is a magical number, because it allows me to start all over again. It's like a new cycle that I can start all over and I feel more present, more me in the music. It's amazing it has all these fusions of a little R&B, pop, it has a little rock, a little bit of everything. In 1996, I did an album it was half in English and half in Tagalog for the Philippines. It was a so weird. It was double weird because at the time I didn't even speak English, so imagine Tagalog. It was crazy but it was fun. The album did great over there. Especially the Tagalog one. That song was crazy but it was good. I feel comfortable in my own skin now finally. I've been trying all kinds of fashions, styles and hair colors you know? Like the Duran Duran hairdo and the Cindy Lauper thing. You know crazy stuff. And now I'm just relaxed. It took a lot of years. You know I started when I was nine years old which was just about five years ago and it's been like a hurricane. I'm so fortunate to be here at Power 106. I never expected it you know. Doing crossover at all these different radio stations. It's like expanding my web all the way. And to me, that's a great opportunity to just share my message, my message about life and philosophy and happiness and that's what I want to share with everybody.

Big Boy: (looking at her diamond ring) Hold on were going to have turn down the lights did you see this ring she's wearing. (everybody laughs)

Thalia: Look at your watch Big Boy, just shut up. You just shut up. (laughs)

Big Boy: Just wait until I get the "real" one. Liz: Thalia, do you plan on touring with this English language album? Thalia: Yes, at the end of the year we are planning to have a tour and we'll be going to all the territories, here (United States ) Latin America, Europe, Asia, all the way. Big Boy: How did the track between you and Fat Joe happen? Thalia: To tell you the truth, I think it was Corey Rooney who said Thalia, I just wrote the best song, you're going to flip. It's an amazing song and I'm thinking about you and Fat Joe. You guys are both Latin and you're both into your roots and people love him a lot and respect him and then we met and there was such chemistry. He came to the studio with the whole Terror Squad and it was cool. He was there with his magic and it was explosive.

Big Boy: And the name of this album is what?

Thalia: Thalia, but the weirdest part is that my first album was named Thalia. The one that is in the market right now in Spanish is also named Thalia and this (the current album) is the third Thalia album. It's not that we're running out of creative ideas, I just want everyone to know who I am. It's a great opportunity for me to start all over again. Starting over brings a good energy. I'm telling you I got lucky with this song (I Want You) being played here, there and everywhere and now I have to work a lot (promoting) and I hope that people still love me. What happens is I did everything vice versa I started of course first in my country, Mexico, then I went all over Central and South America, then I crossed over into Europe and Asia and now I've made the whole circle to here in the United States. I've been trying all kinds of styles (of music) pop, rock pop, a little R&B and rap, salsa, cumbias, all kinds of sounds and rhythms and now this album has the best of me than the first nine albums and why I am now in this kind of music. At this moment, you know, the whole album is perfect, it's like a perfect circle.

Big Boy: With the single, is this kind of a testimonial of what's going to be on the whole album? Thalia: No, it's part of what's on the album, but you'll find a little rock sound, some dance, a little R&B, pop, a little bit of everything. It's like putting all those flavors into a blender and then you get an explosive Margarita. Liz: Thalia, who would like to work with? Thalia: Wow, there are so many people so many guys that are amazing how know? But don't forget the album will drop in stores July 8th, that's the birth date and in the first week of August I'm going to drop my line of clothing and apparel, fragrances and home accessories. It's going to be at Kmart. Everything, it's a lifestyle at Kmart so be ready.

Reaching for the Top

Source: Hispanic Magazine.com - June 2003
By: Mark Halston
TW Correspondent: Amanda26

She’s scored a string of best-selling albums since her debut as a solo artist a decade ago, and has become a household name throughout the Spanish-speaking world and in such far-flung corners of the globe as Greece and Indonesia. Starring roles in Mexican telenovelas have made her beguiling visage familiar to millions of adoring fans. She’s created a signature line of apparel and other products for one of the world’s major retailers, Kmart. And her recent marriage to one of the music industry’s most influential moguls, Tommy Mottola, has all but guaranteed her rising pop music preeminence. She is Thalía, and anyone who today doesn’t know the name or recognize the face soon will.

Thalía joins a long list of Mexican bombshells whose beauty and talent have made them highly marketable commodities far beyond their country’s borders. The pantheon of lovelies extends from María Félix, the sultry actress whose conquest half a century ago of the silver screen made her a global cultural icon, to such singers as Lucía Méndez, Gloria Trevi and Paulina Rubio. While all have dreamed of expanding their fan-base beyond the Hispanic world to the enormous English-speaking market in the United States, few have managed to register more than a momentary blip on the radar screen of North American pop culture. Thalía, however, seems poised to personally re-write the history of Latinas in the global, corporate entertainment business. Her marriage to Mottola, former president of Sony Music (and singer Mariah Carey’s ex), gives her virtually unequalled clout on the music front. Her exclusive arrangement with Kmart to sell a branded line of apparel, footwear, lingerie and accessories may be the boost the ailing firm needs to keep it off the bankruptcy rolls and will help solidify her image as a pop culture icon.

When Hispanic caught up with Thalía, she was fresh from a video shoot for her new English-language CD (Virgin Records) coming out in July—titled “Thalía” like her Spanish one—and on her way to accept an award at the annual Billboard Magazine Latin Music conference in Miami. All in a day’s work for an on-the-go artist whose hectic schedule leaves little space for downtime. “I’m more like a gypsy,” she confides. “Our main residence is New York,” she adds of her new abode with hubby Tommy. “I love the city’s energy.” She also frequently alights in Miami, which she adores for its tropical vibe and warm climate, and Mexico. “But,” she asserts, “I’m always doing promotional trips and touring, so basically, I’m a gypsy.”

Interviews with the non-Spanish language media are something new to the singer, but she realizes she’ll need to get used to fielding questions in her second tongue as her stature grows. She frets about her ability to speak English, and occasionally pauses, searching for the correct word. When her pronunciation is less than perfect, she tries valiantly to correct it on the fly. But her slight accent and less than total command of the language likely won’t inhibit her from her aggressive assault on the bastions of the U.S. pop music and film scene. From her dazzling, flirtatious smile to her prowess as a vocalist and actress and plethora of friends in high places, Thalía seems fully in command of her own destiny.

“My new album (out this month on the EMI label) is an opportunity to expand my music, my message and my love for life in English,” she says. “I feel more comfortable now, talking in English and singing in it.” The album, she explains, is a blend of many rhythms and contemporary styles. “Today, music fans are open to many possibilities, and that’s the beauty of it—you can put the rhythms that you like in a shaker and you have the best music cocktail in the world.”

With the master plan of her music crossover career seemingly well on track, Thalía ponders how to replicate in English-language films or TV, the kind of acting success she’s scored on such Mexican soap operas as María la del barrio and Rosalinda and the film Mambo Café. But she wants to avoid the trap other Latina actresses have fallen into—succumbing to cookie-cutter roles that play off of long-held, unflattering stereotypes.

“I am reading some scripts and am reviewing proposals for TV projects,” she explains. “But I want to be sure about the next project for Thalía as an actress, and not to just do a crazy, stupid Latina role with a red dress, just talking about sex. Unfortunately, that’s all too often how Latinas are portrayed in films. So, when I have a great part that will put me on a higher artistic level,” she adds confidently, “I will take it.”

Although she chafes at accepting a film or television role based solely on a sexy persona, there’s no denying the fact that her hot image has helped her win over new fans in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Indeed, her visceral sex appeal has captured rapt attention from quarters that wouldn’t know a cumbia from a cucumber. AskMen.com, a men’s website that rates women like the latest generation of sports cars or high tech gadgets, recently swooned over the Mexican chanteuse. “You think Jennifer López can melt ice with one wiggle?” they asked, followed by the query, “Then what do you do when this hurricane of sexiness comes your way?” Rating her “natural beauty,” the site’s editors fantasized, “Thalía has the kind of face you just want to kiss over, and over, and over, and over again.”

Had she come along five decades earlier, the 30-year-old entertainer, born Adriana Thalía Sodi Miranda in Mexico City, might have had to be satisfied with a role as a model for toothpaste ads in Life magazine. But in today’s MTV world, the combination of hair and hips Thalía boasts has been translated into a hypnotic visual language of instant, universal appeal. What makes her uncommonly attractive to fans of both sexes and many generations is that sublime combination of “girl-next-door” freshness and untamed sensuality of an exotic tempress.

“I’m a blend of all of that,” she says unselfconsciously. “The ‘girl next door,’ because that’s my true personality. The sexy woman, the animal—on stage—yes, I can be that, like a savage. At the same time, I can be sweet—a dreamer. All of those characters are one—it’s me. I’m very honest with myself and I respect myself. That’s why I carry all of those Thalías inside of one.”

No matter how popular she becomes to non-Spanish-speaking pop music fans, Thalía remains pura mejicana at the core. Significantly, while strategizing her move into the English-speaking market, she recorded an album that took many by surprise—a survey of her country’s raucous banda tradition, setting a program of her hits to the brassy style that’s all the rage among northern Mexico’s rural folk. “It was such a great project for me to do, because I always liked this kind of music,” she comments. “My grandmother was from La Paz in Baja, California, and I’ve listened to this kind of music since I was a kid. It was great to bring the music of my Mexican roots to countries that already know who I am through my pop music—places like Spain and the Philippines.”

For inspiration, she looks to two of her country’s greatest artists, Pedro Infante and María Félix. “Pedro was to me this very handsome Mexican guy with the biggest charisma—the most amazing magic you can ever imagine. At the same time, he was a terrible guy with women. In his movies, he’d have three girls at the same time. But at the end of the day, the way he acted and performed, you accepted that and loved him. His voice is tender and romantic on the boleros—a voice to die for. And María—she was so fantastic and left such a legacy for the movie industry. She was such an inspiration—so strong and feminine at the same time.”

Like virtually every other artist whose ongoing popularity depends on maintaining the loyalty of the broadest possible base of fans, Thalía has deftly avoided taking controversial political or social stands. But the harsh realities of her country’s violent culture of drugs and organized crime suddenly invaded her world of privilege last fall, when her two sisters were snatched by kidnappers from a Mexico City street and held for a ransom that may have run into millions of dollars. The tormenting period of their captivity, with minute-by-minute agonizing over their fate, proved to be the most trying time of the singer’s life.

“It was a terrible situation,” she says when pressed to comment on her family’s tragedy. She chooses to keep private the details of the kidnapping and the heightened security measures for herself and other family members that have certainly been put into place since the crime. Rather, she talks about the personal triumph of her sisters, who, she says, are putting the emotional trauma of their ordeal behind them. “I’m very happy that my sisters are alive and they are enjoying life and trying to put everything together again,” she adds. “And they’re doing a very good job of that.”

Although she refuses to point a finger of blame or to frame her comments about Mexico’s increasingly violent society, Thalía is quick to express her hopes for the country’s future. “I want to see a violence-free Mexico,” she states, “a Mexico where people can walk free on the streets and feel secure. I want my country to shine again and stand up again from all of this terrible cloud of violence and terror. I think we’re doing it—step by step. But it has to start from the people themselves.”

In Greek mythology, Thalía is the Muse of comedy and pastoral poetry. While her namesake may not be the precise living reflection of those artistic attributes, there’s no disputing the fact that Thalía is poetry in motion, smiling every step on her confident march to global pop stardom.

Thalia Begins U.S. Radio Promo Tour

Source: Thalia.com - June 20, 2003
TW Correspondent: Luisa

Thalia was in Los Angeles yesterday promoting her latest single “I Want You.” She visited several radio stations, including KIIS FM, Hot 92, and Power 106. Later she attended a special reception in her honor at the R&R (Radio and Records) Convention in Beverly Hills. There Thalia met many of the key people who have supported the song on the radio from day one.
Today she is off to Colorado for a little rest and relaxation because next week will be a hectic one. Thalia will continue to promote her new single and album, conduct interviews, shoot a commercial for Kmart, as well as the video for her next single, “Baby I’m In Love.”

Thalia Jumps Up in BillBoard Top 100

Source: thalia.com - June 20, 2003
TW Correspondent: Luisa

Thalia keeps rising to the top! This week her single “I Want You” has climbed from the #66 to the #58 spot on the Billboard Top 100 chart. Thanks for supporting the single… and don’t forget to keep calling those TRL request lines!

Thalia Applies Finishing Touches To Her K- Mart Line

Source: thalia.com - June 16, 2003
TW Correspondent: Luisa

Thalia is in Detroit putting the finishing touches on the launch of her Kmart line, which is scheduled for August. Get ready because soon you will have the hottest styles on the market at your fingertips!

Thalia Beats Miss Universe! …With Her Ratings!

Source: thalia.com - June 16, 2003
:TW Correspondent: Luisa

Otro Rollo earned unprecedented ratings thanks to Thalia’s magical touch. The show had the highest ratings of the night with an average of 20.3 (compare it to Miss Universe’s 4.3 rating or the 14.3 rating Otro Rollo received a week later), and no one can deny that Mexico caught a serious case of Thaly-mania!

Thalia (2003) Official Track Listing Source: thalia.com - June 16, 2003 TW Correspondent: Luisa Here is the official list of songs on Thalia’s new album: 1. I Want You feat. Fat Joe 2. Baby, I'm In Love 3. Misbehavin' 4. Don't Look Back 5. Another Girl 6. What's it Gonna Be Boy 7. Closer to You 8. Save the Day 9. Tu y Yo (English version) 10. Dance Dance (The Mexican) 11. Me Pones Sexy 12. Alguien Real 13. Cerca De Ti 14. Toda la Felicidad Remember that the album will be out in stores on July 8! As we speak Thalia is starting to prepare for the taping of the video of her second single. Come back and see us at Thalia.com and find out more!

Meet Thalia's Newest Baby !!! Source: thalia.com - June 11, 2003 TW Correspondent: Luisa During Thalia's recent trip to Mexico City, she was gifted with a 3 1/2 month old dog (pictured on the right). According to Thalia, the latest addition to the Mottola household is already Rata's best friend and they get along just fine. There is a slight problem though, the poor dog has yet to be given a name. So, Thalia has enjoined the help of her fans in naming the dog. Thalia's personal choices are Beluga, Micca, or Chiqui. Feel free to make your comments and suggestions here .

The Next Big Thing! Source: Maxim - June 11, 2003 TW Correspondents: Tonchi & Luisa You have doubtless never even heard of her, but to millions of Latinos, Thalia is an acting and singing veteran, and famous beyond all imagining. Fans in the Philippines left their work places to mob the Mexico City-born singer. A stalker wrote her a marriage proposal - in his own blood. Hispanic tabloids claim that she has had a rib removed for slimming purposes. (She hasn't.) Thalia Ariadna Sodi, 30, started singing at the tender age of 9 with kiddie-pop groups Din-din and Timbiriche. In her twenties, she became the Latin world's Reina de telenovelas (Queen of soaps) after starring in several hugely popular Mexican soap operas exported to 180 countries. To the English - speaking world, she is best known for marrying ex-Sony boss (and Mariah Carey's ex-hubby) Tommy Mottola, and for a horrific story that hit headlines last year. In September 2002, a Mexico City crime gang kidnapped Thalia's two older sisters. Both were eventually returned unharmed after the family reportedly parted with $1 Million. "In Mexico," she muses in imperfect but expressive English "we have a different kind of terrorism there -- but we deal with it." With an army of high -profile producers, the glossy princess plans to follow other Latin superstars onto the U.S. pop charts. (Think a less bootylicious J.Lo meets a less wierd Shakira.) Her English language debut devours a smorgasboard of musical styles from Latin and rock to pop and hip-hop. It's a policy the slender singer carries over to all areas of her life. "I'm a vaccum cleaner." she thrills, gazing hungrily at the plate of ribs and fries bathing in cheddar before her. "That's my therapy."

Thalia on MTV Beach House

Source: thalia.com - June 10, 2003
TW Correspondent: Tonchi

Thalia will appear on MTV's Beach House this summer! Stay tuned for the air date and catch Thalia as she turns up the heat!

In A City Near You

Source: thalia.com - June 10, 2003
TW Correspondent: Tonchi

Get ready because Thalia is coming to a city near you! Her latest album, THALIA, will hit stores on July 8 and she will be visiting several cities across the United States. Thalia will be signing copies of her new album and will visit radio stations. And don't worry, she may be starting in the U.S. but she will tour the world! Keep checking Thalia.com for more information!

Thalia Tops the Charts

Source: thalia.com - June 8, 2003
TW Correspondent: Tonchi

I Want You debuted at #71 on Billboard’s radio charts.
http://www.billboardradio.com/billboardradio/6180.jsp

thalia's Hits Remixed is still one of the highest selling albums of the week and rises to #17 on Billboard’s Latin sales charts.
http://www.billboard.com/bb/charts/latin50.jsp

Thalia's Hits Remixed is #6 on Billboard’s “Electronic Music” charts and is the only Latin album on the chart.
http://www.billboard.com/bb/charts/electronic.jsp

A Quien Le Importa is #16 on Billboard’s radio airplay chart and is one of the songs with the longest time in the TOP 20 with 18 weeks on the chart.
http://www.billboard.com/bb/charts/airplay/latintracks.jsp

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