Why Enrique Iglesias should duet with women more often

Enrique Iglesias has got pretty popular in the States and Europe due to his catchy club tunes that are usually served with a cold verse by some popular rapper at the time. But if you change that formula a little. Let's say change the male rapper to a woman, and make the feature song into a duet, and you've got FIRE! Below are two recent collabs of Iglesias with Dev and Jennifer Lopez. Enjoy!
"Naked" - Dev & Enrique Iglesias


This track was download hastily by me. Iglesias' douche-popclub tunes on the radio were great and all, but combined with Dev's staright-forward electro ditties didn't sound like an enticing combination.
And I was wrong.
Once I gave this song one listen I immediately changed my mind. The song is produced by The Cataracs, Dev's producers, (leading me to believe this is for inclusion in Dev's US release of "The Night the Sun Came Up" this January?) and is full of electronic influences and a great little ghoul-like shriek in the breakdown similar to that at the beginning of Iglesias' "Tonight (I'm F*cking You)." Dev's low-toned vocals open the track, speaking of how inappropriate she is for Enrique, but Enrique counters with the fact that she's the only one that keeps him up at night. Then comes the delicious pre-chorus. "I don't care what they say it's our life life life. We can dance if we want, make it feel alright" they both sing over escalating beats before all this pulls away in the chorus.
"So tell me baby will you be there when I wake up? Even with no make-up?" Dev asks Enrique over a punching beat to which he replies "And you ain't gotta doubt a second if I miss you. Every time I'm with you."
Then they both, in a truly climactic point in the song, "I feel naked."
It's pure magic. The techno elements have always suited Dev's voice, but Enrique seems right at home in them too, and for good reason. If he would back away from the eurotrash production he so often frequents and delve into the electronica scene with The Cataracs some really good music could be made!





"Mouth 2 Mouth" - Enrique Iglesias feat. Jennifer Lopez

(not official cover art, that picture is way too inappropriate to show on here)
In a song that I dare say is even better than the one above, Enrique and Jennifer (the hottest Latinos ever) collaborate. The song begins with them both saying "We live, we love, we touch." Great start, huh? Then starts the slithering synthesizers that back Enrique as he sings about a late night booty call ("innocent crime") he can't seem to focus on because all he can think about is Miss Lopez.
Then the then-dormant slithering synths become extremely prevalent behind Iglesias' vocals in the chorus. "I can't catch a single breath baby, help me now. Hurry up it's killing me the way I need your mouth to mouth" he sings. Later J.Lo joins, "I say you make me feel alive. I say you bring me back to life." So steamy!!
The comes Lopez's verse which is almost a mirror of Iglesias', but in female perspective. "But in the back of my mind you're all I'm thinking of" she sings before the explosive chorus.
DJ Frank E, who is also responsible for the touching ballad "Tonight (I'm F*cking You") (so touching, that one), produced this gem and it is glorious. The combination of J.Lo and E.Ig (that doesn't work so well) is sensual without being sexual, per se. That's what makes this song so great. It's like they're both holding a thin sheet over what they're doing an it's the listener's imagination that fills in what's happening in between the sheets.
Proof enough? Let's start a protest. We need more Enrique duets! Reblog if you agree!