The Pretenders - ¡Viva El Amor!

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Release date: 31 May 1999

The Pretenders - ¡Viva El Amor!

Viva El Amor!

A misleading title if ever there was one.

A misleading title if ever there was one. Chrissie Hynde has returned from the pop hinterland after a gap of the best part of a decade of absence, and clearly she doesn't like what she's found. Thirty seconds into opening track, 'Popstar' , she's spitting contemptuously at the whole of '90s pop, concluding that, "they don't make 'em like they used...

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