This is hardcore pop in its truest form, at the same level as is all this Backstreet Boys/N Sync/Britney Spears/Ricky Martin/Sisqo/Blink 182/Celine Dion/Christina Aguilera/Shaggy/Lil'Bow Wow/I can go on forever ...! I don't understand why this "remarkable" guitarist could aim at such a generation who listens to Backstreet Boys or N Sync (oh, dear!); I figure he must have mistargeted to the commercial mainstream instead of making a memorable record. As one of those people who absolutely detests acclaimed artists who get so wound up in their popularity, they screw their own lives up (i.e., Wacko Jacko) and the commercial state in which America (the so-called "land of the free and the home of the brave") is now, I wonder how all of a sudden music could become so like this? Santana is a remarkable guitarist but I think on his next album he should return to his roots instead of doing stuff like this that the public will just ... down only to get sick of later. PLEASE listen to some REAL Santana such as his first three albums and you'll sooner or later see this album's lack of "landmark"!