After six albums with composer Zrinko Tutić, singer Doris Dragović turns her attention to other composers. The desire to spread the wings and perhaps try different sounds seems natural, however the change is not really so drastic - Dragović started with sweet, light and breezy pop funk of the band "More" but in subsequent years Tutić steered her towards completely different music and she found her speciality in ethno-folk melodramas for which composer mixed Greek and Mexican ingredients. That collaboration was very successful and it worked like magic for years but it did pigeonholed young singer in a certain category since this music consciously and decidedly followed tradition, rarely stepping outside of the frame or experimenting with different production. It became very obvious that at this point Dragović was out of step with new wave of modern artists like Dino Dvornik and Electro Team who successfully spearheaded completely new trends and their music was played in clubs and bars.
Even the old timer Oliver Dragojević found renaissance in collaborations with young producers and songwriters, so it would have been interesting to find Dragović in completely new, current and modern production - this will eventually come in the future, but for now she still held on to her guns and firmly stayed in the comfort zone of traditional schlager, even though she changed composers. Her choice of collaborators is hardly adventurous - these are not just any people, mind you, but celebrated names like Zdenko Runjić (who brings two best songs of the whole album), Đorđe Novković and Tonči Huljić, all of them previously celebrated and successful composers but material sounds very much like what Dragović did for the last decade, there is nothing really new here except the gnawing feeling that perhaps Tutić did it better. Except honourable examples of maestro Runjić who seems incapable of writing weak song, the rest of the album suffers from a certain sameness that had already started plaguing her repertoire.
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