Mediocre (album)
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Ximena Sariñana posed on the cover as the archetypical 1940s housewife in order to demonstrate the mediocrity of perfection.
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| Studio album by Ximena Sariñana | ||||
| Released | February 12, 2008 (Mexico) July 15, 2008 (United States) |
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| Recorded | May 2007–August 2007 | |||
| Genre | Pop, rock, alternative, nueva canción, and indie pop (see musical style) | |||
| Length | 49:20 | |||
| Language | Spanish, English | |||
| Label | Warner Music Group | |||
| Producer | Ximena Sariñana, Tweety González, Juan Campodónico, Gerardo Galván, Bruno Bressa | |||
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Mediocre (Spanish pronunciation: [meˈðjokɾe]) is the Grammy Award and Latin Grammy nominated debut album of Mexican singer and actress Ximena Sariñana, released in the United States on July 15, 2008.Mediocre reached #10 on Billboard's Latin Pop Albums, and spawned the hit single "Vidas Paralelas" ("Parallel Lives"). The album gained additional attention when the iTunes Store featured Sariñana's song "Normal" as the canción de la semana — iTunes' free Latino song of the week — during the week of July 8, 2008.
Mediocre garnered good reviews from many critics, receiving five stars from SoMinty, four stars from Time Out, and four stars from Rolling Stone magazine. Many critics praise Mediocre for being an eclectic album with a diverse style of songs featuring pop, rock, alternative, and nueva canción styles.
Sariñana clarified that her title choice, "Mediocre", means to denounce mediocrity and conformity. She explained in an interview, "This whole idea of the perfect woman of the ‘50s is what the title song is about... There was no possibility of being something different, and that, in turn, created a prototype of a woman who was mediocre."
The album artwork for Mediocre meant to emulate the theme of mediocrity. Sariñana elaborated, "The cover is a take on the idea that women in the ‘40s and ‘50s had to be ‘perfect.’ Perfect hair, perfect clothes, sitting quietly and making perfect meals and embroidering perfectly. And, ironically, they were all perfect in the same, uninteresting way so that ended up making them all mediocre. That was the idea." Sariñana stressed that she did not intend to produce mediocre content for the album: "It’s not to say that the material is mediocre, but rather that it’s a message of irony, and I think the public gets that, but there are some people out there who like to poke fun at the title."
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