Gloria Estefan’s Newest Album Shuns the Gays

According to a review we read this afternoon, Gloria Estefan’s first album in four years (which drops next week) has nothing to offer her biggest and most fabulous fanbase–the gays:

Gloria Estefan fans expecting disco and club jams - the classic crossover sounds that made the Miami raised singer a gay icon - may want to skip her latest album, “90 Millas.” It’s not that it’s bad.

An explanation goes on to say that the release is actually good, but only if you’re into pseudo-authentic Cuban music. We know we sure as hell aren’t, and it seems critics who got a sneak preview weren’t either. That is, until Estefan’s husband took the edge off with some comp’d booze:

During a listening session this summer where the press was plowed with mojitos — the only way Emilio Estefan says music sounds better — the 50-year-old singer said that this was an organic and no rush project that came from the heart.

We’re certain she meant it was a free-flowing creative endeavor that avoided overproduction, but the first thing that popped into our minds when we read “organic” was a bunch of women in comfortable shoes who don’t wear make-up. Are they the demographic she’s going after now?

GLORIA’S RETURN [NY Post]