| Toto attempted
to satisfy commercial considerations by loading up the first
half of its seventh album with the kind of power ballads that
had given it recognition before, especially songs named after
women whose names end in "A" like "Pamela" and "Anna."
But these thinly veiled rewrites
of "Rosanna" earned only modest radio play, and the rest of
the album, which rocked harder as it went on, while it may have
been truer to the band's musical aspirations, continued to sound
too anonymous to earn any response beyond the band's fan base,
especially its international one (which it seemed to be acknowledging
by printing some of the sleeve notes in Japanese).
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