August 24, 201014 yr The She Wolf album gets too much hate. I still adore it. I absolutely love it! She Wolf, MITT, Good Stuff, Why Wait and DIA :wub:
August 25, 201014 yr I rarely listen to mainstream pop music like this but she got it spot on. Such a shame it wasn't massive.
August 25, 201014 yr There WAS something missing from the She Wolf album. I don't know what it was. It was that extra little ingredient which in the past had always made a great song into a great Shakira song. It's still a hell of an album though.
August 25, 201014 yr There WAS something missing from the She Wolf album. I don't know what it was. It was that extra little ingredient which in the past had always made a great song into a great Shakira song. It's still a hell of an album though. Indivduality? Anybody could have sung half of the She Wolf album, I'd love to see anyone sane cover half of Oral Fixation or Laundry Service and keep their credibility in tact. Those two albums were just 'breaking free from conventions', yet somehow still mainstream, pop music that was completely injected with Shakira's personality. She's one of very few mainstream artists that gets away with being eccentric, we expect to hear tribal chanting and nonsensical lyrics in her songs and we love her for it, what I don't want to hear from Shakira, personally, is a generic urban jam with Lil' Wayne that could have been sung by absolutely anybody. She's not a disposable artist like many are, and Waka Waka proves that the individuality and creativity is most certainly still there, so hopefully the new album will display it like she always has in the past, but to a far lesser extent with a lot of the tracks from the She Wolf era.
August 25, 201014 yr Give It Up To Me makes me vomit. I cannot imagine anyone else singing She Wolf. She Wolf and a few others are exceptions, but the other half of the album lacks Shakira magic. Give It Up To Me is the weakest single she's ever released in my opinion, not 'her' at all.
August 26, 201014 yr I like it, but it was the right decision not releasing it in the UK. As for the album, I like it a lot, but it's kind of like someone from the record company told her to make an album of diffrent versions of Timor (from OFv2)...
August 26, 201014 yr Author There WAS something missing from the She Wolf album. I don't know what it was. It was that extra little ingredient which in the past had always made a great song into a great Shakira song. It's still a hell of an album though. I think there's a couple of tracks where you can hear the record label going "record the record this," mainly Gypsy and Long Time. And because the album is only really 9 original songs, that means that there's only 7 songs "Shakira" songs on there, and when her albums are usually 11 brilliant songs, She Wolf didn't quite hit her usual standard. Compared to most other female pop artists though, 7 brilliant tracks on an album is pretty good going.
August 26, 201014 yr Give It Up To Me is one of my favourite Shakira songs. :blush: How is that even possible? At best I can imagine people liking it in a guilty pleasure sort of way because it's so trashy but kind of fun. But in the context of Shakira's back catalogue? Do you have each of her English albums? I'm genuinely interested...
August 26, 201014 yr How is that even possible? At best I can imagine people liking it in a guilty pleasure sort of way because it's so trashy but kind of fun. But in the context of Shakira's back catalogue? Do you have each of her English albums? I'm genuinely interested... I've only got the She Wolf album but i have listened to the other two english albums several times. She Wolf is actually by far my favourite Shakira era. She Wolf >>> Whenever Wherever > Give It Up To Me >> Hips Don't Lie > Men In This Town
January 11, 201114 yr Billboard's Five Likely 2010 Radio Hits ... If They'd Been Released to Radio 5, "Dance in the Dark," Lady Gaga 4, "For Your Entertainment," Adam Lambert 3, "Men in This Town," Shakira 2, "You're Not Sorry," Taylor Swift 1, "Kiss and Tell," Ke$ha
January 12, 201114 yr Billboard's Five Likely 2010 Radio Hits ... If They'd Been Released to Radio 5, "Dance in the Dark," Lady Gaga 4, "For Your Entertainment," Adam Lambert 3, "Men in This Town," Shakira 2, "You're Not Sorry," Taylor Swift 1, "Kiss and Tell," Ke$ha Why Gypsy was a single over Men In This Town i'll never know.
January 19, 201114 yr I really think if they released She Wolf in June, swiftly moving onto Men In This Town in September/October then the project would have been a lot more successful. Upsetting. I'M SO FRESH AND I'M SO CLEAN.
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