 The album's musical influences include salsa, funk, R&B, bubblegum pop, teen pop, pop ballads, techno, a fusion of reggae and dancehall, rock, polka, conjunto, flamenco, mariachi, corridos, and Tejano cumbia.The latter genre is used heavily throughout "Amor Prohibido".Author Ed Morales noticed its representation of the "cumbia sound" already established by Tejano band La Mafia, though author Donald Clarke found Selena's delivery to be more of a modernized synthesizer-rich sound.