''Si me llevas contigo'' (If You Take Me With You) is an album by

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. Trevi's manager produced her last album in the 1990s. The album was recorded in a home studio in ''Cuernavaca'' and in ''

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''. The album was released in November 1995 by BMG Ariola. The ten songs Trevi consolidated production as a composer, exploring controversial themes such as homosexuality, chastity, religion, frustration, economic crisis and political corruption, and even suicide. The artist was banned by

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after some personal conflicts between the company's owner and Andrade and after the company "Conexiones Americanas" (owned by Andrade) sold the rights of two of their programs to

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. Trevi was absent from multiple channels broadcast by the end of that year and the album's promotion was negatively affected. '' Ella Que Nunca Fue Ella'' (She Who Was Never Herself) and ''Si Me Llevas Contigo'' (if you take me with you) ... were the only two singles from the album, both tracks are ballads, which had moderate success on the radio. ''Lloran Mis Muñecas'' (My Wrists Cry) was planned as a third single, but was canceled because it was a theme blatantly alluding to suicide. Several projects were cut short due to the supposed illness of Andrade, among them there were plans to record a soap opera starring ''

'' under the title of the ''Angels'' to be released in March 1996 by TV Azteca television company. Trevi promoted the album in several TV Azteca programs such as "En Medio Del Espectáculo" and "Ventaneando", hosted both by

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, who acclaimed the album constantly and who was very close to Andrade. Tv Azteca promoted this album right after its release and also at the beginning of 1996. For a period, the album was played nationwide every night and in the early morning by TV Azteca, when there weren't shows being broadcast. On March 13, 1996, Trevi announced that she would retire from performing live due to her manager's cancer. She offered her last two concerts at the ''National Auditorium'', 16 and 17 March. These concerts were broadcast by TV Azteca. Trevi's claims about Andrade's cancer have never been verified, and it was later speculated by the press that he was never ill. Eventually, it was confirmed that Andrade actually suffered from the Guillain-Barré syndrome, which was diagnosed while he and Trevi were imprisoned in Brazil. After negotiations with ''TV Azteca'', in August of that year, ''Gloria Trevi'' ended up signing an exclusive contract with ''Televisa'' instead. According to the contract, 6 years, ''Gloria'' was committed to make four ''telenovelas'' (soap operas), six films and host a program in primetime, which would be her first project. She returned to the company as the highest-paid Mexican star. Trevi resumed the promotion of the album in Televisa, performing songs in a string of live shows in this company. On September 16, 1996, ''Trevi'' returned to the small screen with a live program called ''XETU Remix''. The program was a 21st century style rework of a program called XETU which was broadcast in Mexico in the eighties, in which Gloria made an appearance for the first time on television after winning the contest for the double of a popular actress back then called Lucerito. The show's broadcast were concluded on January 3, 1997 due to low rating and difficult situations happening backstage. XETU remix received mostly negative reviews by the critics, especially from TV Azteca, who actually were resentful because Gloria wound up signing with their rival television company. Additionally, from this point, TV Azteca reporters, led by Paty Chapoy, started a defamation campaign against Gloria, criticizing negatively her looks, shows and whatever she did. In press conferences during 1996, Trevi stated that she decided to sign with Televisa simply because they offered her a bigger budget for her projects, as opposed to TV Azteca who offered her a restricted budget. In an interview in jail in Brazil in 2001, Trevi stated that before signing her contract with Televisa she called

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, owner of TV Azteca, to let him know what she would be signing with Televisa instead of TV Azteca. She stated: -I thought I was free to choose, so I did what anyone would have done and I followed my heart... by the tone of his voice and the kind of words he used against me, I knew he wasn't happy and I knew that they (TV Azteca) would do things to harm me in the future.

Track listing

{{Authority control Gloria Trevi albums 1995 albums