July 14, 200916 yr scott mills played "she wolf" yesterday, you can hear it here.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lkl7b iplayer it at 1:12 he says he likes it, its looking good playlist it you basturds please!!
July 14, 200916 yr Author scott mills played "she wolf" yesterday, you can hear it here.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lkl7b iplayer it at 1:12 he says he likes it, its looking good playlist it you basturds please!! I think they're jumping on this early after f-ing up with HDL and after the success of Beautiful Liar. I heard there's going to be a Calvin Harris remix of She Wolf and if it's any good I bet they playlist that version. Shaki on The View m9C9SyIokIg She comes across so well in interviews :D
July 16, 200916 yr i heard it in full for the first time today,i have to say im not hugely keen on it but it has the sound of a song that i know will grow on me, radio play will playa huge factor as in whether this does well or not as to me its definitly a song that will need huge radio play.
July 17, 200916 yr excellent news Ash-Wolf awooooooooo to you. calvin harris, howls about the freemasons too? ^_^ would be good too. the original version seems radio 1 friendly, i mean its more dancey than her other singles if they don't playlist her then i don't know what she has to do to please those fools. we need scott mills to pull a few strings and demand she gets playlisted. true feelthefever, its all about radio airplay and radio 1 at that. when was the last time we had a big UK number #1 which wasn't playlisted on radio 1? or a top 10 hit for that matter? excluding reality tv audience hype driven tracks. for #1s it could be HDL? what HDL did was so freakish, i can't see a track at #1 with longevity without being playlisted on radio 1 selling over half a million (apart from RTAHDT ^^^^^). here is a great review from http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jul/17/shakira-she-wolf (thanks to wolfhunter) On music: The She Wolf bitesShakira's howling alter ego is properly, wonderfully strange, going back to the old rules of pop star alternate personas Jude Rogers The Guardian, Friday 17 July 2009 Article history This year marks the attempted summer conquest of the charts by Shakira, Colombia's very own pop-belting colossus. In the summer of 2001, she informed us her breasts were small and humble, so we didn't confuse them with mountains in Whenever, Wherever. In 2006, she told us her Hips Don't Lie. This year, however, she bares her teeth, with her most powerful song yet: the mammoth Balearic-flavoured pop song She Wolf, in which she tells us she is the student of the moon, a lupine being trapped in the closet, before howling - yes, howling - in the fabulous chorus. This howl isn't just unbridled sexuality. It shows us how pop stars gain so much of their power over our imaginations by persuading us they are actually more than human. We think of pop stars as very different animals, anyway: at worst as monsters created by svengali Frankensteins, at best as a much luckier species than us plebeians. Still, pop stars are flesh and bone, too. They have mums and dads they argue with, bills to pay, and toilet habits to attend to - and not just the ones involving white powder on the cistern lid. Admittedly, suitors and stylists may pamper their egos as well as their bodies, but they still need fancy videos and stage shows to make them look - and, crucially, feel - larger than life. Superhuman personas have long been a way to get that job done. David Bowie used the unearthly Ziggy Stardust, the humanised alien, and the Thin White Duke, the smartly dressed Aryan male, to distance him from the boy from Beckenham. It worked, too - it made his star intergalactic. A decade later, Michael Jackson took pop to its peak when he turned into a werecat in the Thriller video, showing his date, as well as his fans, how he really "wasn't like the other boys". Both Bowie and Jackson mythologised their place in pop's canon in a memorable way, spiriting their images away from their chart contemporaries, and affording them an extra level of eerie, yet glamorous, identity. In the 90s, however, pop alter egos took a more navel-gazing turn. In U2's Zoo TV tour, Bono became the Fly, Mr MacPhisto and the Mirror Ball Man - parodies of a rock star, a devilish lush, and a man in love with his own reflection. These looked like boastful gestures by a man too enamoured by his own acts to be satirising them, and U2 became associated with hubris - so when Bono announced his attention to "reclaim the title" of the world's best rock'n'roll band, it had to be as a plain old rock group. The American country star Garth Brooks made a similar mistake, though in his case it was, perhaps, by not being superhuman enough: in 1999, he took on the alter ego of Chris Gaines, a fictional rock singer who didn't enjoy the pressures of fame. Brooks's fans were unimpressed, and he went from being the biggest country star in the US to an also-ran. It seemed as though alternate personas had become more about pop stars' own experiences of fame than the brave new worlds they could take their fans to, as Bowie and Jackson had done. Pop stars were starting to think their very existence was an object of fascination, that they didn't have to try to work to create glamour - in its original sense of a spell, an enchantment. Even when recent artists have tried to create other personas - Beyoncé's Sasha Fierce, for instance - they have been at pains to reveal how they have constructed them, and how they allow pop stars to explore different kinds of music. That's not magic. It's business. So kudos to Shakira. Her She Wolf project is properly, wonderfully strange, incorporating a viral video campaign about sightings of the She Wolf round the world. This is going back to the old rules, and updating them for a cannier market. It should succeed, too. The song's catchy chorus howls its message powerfully, and shows how Shakira, a powerful woman and a world-straddling star, knows how to handle pop mythology. Remember that when She Wolf takes its bite of you, too. Edited July 17, 200916 yr by Bullet Wolf
July 18, 200916 yr Great read :D Thanks! And I should think Radio 1 will be all over this. They've already played She Wolf and even Loba.
July 23, 200915 yr Can't wait for the video! Has anyone heard the J. Rocwell remix? It's not much different to the original really, he just does a bit of rapping at the beginning. I love it though. :wub: jRyXhYEryZo
August 2, 200915 yr Premier on Channel 4 this morning. It's a really awesome video, if slightly strange. I love the crazy movements at the end :wub:
August 5, 200915 yr crazy video like a modern day barbarella in a cage/club. she looks so sexy and the parts in the cage are stunning like how she swings her leg like its an animal's tail. she is shooting up US itunes up at #11 can't wait to see live performance, she always a charasmatic performer good to watch.
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