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I don't mean she should make another song like She Wolf, but she should develop from that sound. I think She Wolf had so many potential singles, she just didn't release any of them! Releasing Did It Again and Gypsy was such a mistake. It should've been MITT and Good Stuff.

Exactly. I love Loca - it's insanely catchy and the production is amazing (love when the synths and the beat drops in the "you're the one for me" bit), but it is a regression for Shakira musically. The whole album sounds like that to be honest. I'd much prefer her advancing with the She Wolf sound and doing something that no one else has done before. She Wolf was great because it was like while everyone is paying homage to Euro dance music and chordal synths, Shakira comes out with a weird Italo Disco number. Loca just sounds like she's retreading old ground for a sure-fire hit.

Katie would've been better going down the Ellie Goulding quirky route...not Lady Gaga on a budget.

Yeah, but I feel like Radio 1 will think of any excuse not to playlist a Shakira song, and this is very latin...moreso than Hips Don't Lie.

Timbaland's contributions to Perfect World were pretty lame (except RTF), but overall, my fave Keri songs are The Way I Are, Scream, Miscommunication and Return The Favour. I don't really rate Polow's songs on Perfect World either, though. Knock You Down and Alienated are the only ones I really rate and they're Danja. In A Perfect World was a major disappointment altogether.

bqmbvKuhig8 Embedding disabled :angry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqmbvKuhig8...player_embedded Seeing as this is starting to get played on the music channels I thought it was time for a poll. I reckon this could go top 5 if promoted well and playlisted on Radio 1. Otherwise, I have a feeling it might peak top 20. There is a Freemasons remix so hopefully Radio 1 do playlist this. Apparently it's released around the end of Nov...I hope that's a mistake.

Pretty Girl Rock is so lame. Keri should stick with Timbaland.

You can listen to the Freemasons Remix here: http://mosuniverse.com/blogs/taj/2010/10/r...eemasons-remix/ Hopefully this means Radio1 will playlist now.

Here's where the sampler came from, you can see each track there. I'm guessing it's Tu Boca or Devocion. http://www.amazon.de/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?__mk...ira+sale+el+sol

Album sampler: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5635846/Sale%20el%...m%20Sampler.mp3 I only like the sound of Devocion. Gordita, Sale El Sol and Antes De Las Seis are great, but already knew that from the live versions.

MTV video review: Sep 29 2010 2:31 PM EDT Shakira Goes 'Loca' In New Guerrilla-Style Video The Colombian star roller-skates, hip-shakes and fountain-dives for crazy clip. By James Montgomery (@positivnegativ) For nearly two decades now, either due to her multinational leanings (the Colombian's music is as indebted to Latin American rhythms as it is to Arabic dance, Euro disco and red-white-and-blue rock) or because she is sort of insane (see last year's She Wolf album), Shakira has managed to carve out her own, rather indefinable niche in pop music. On Wednesday (September 29), she premiered the video for "Loca," the first single off her upcoming Sale el Sol album (due October 19). And while it's not exactly a unique artistic endeavor — it echoes sentiments already expressed by the likes of Matt & Kim (in their "Lessons Learned" clip) and Erykah Badu (in her firestormy "Window Seat" vid) — it's still undoubtedly her ... mostly because none of her high-gloss pop contemporaries would ever dare attempt something like it. Shot run-and-gun style in Barcelona, "Loca" follows Shakira and her crew — which includes a few cameramen and, somewhat improbably, British rapper Dizzee Rascal — on a madcap adventure that includes roller-skating, public wardrobe changes, motorcycle cruising, an illicit hop in a public fountain (a move that landed her in hot, uh, water with local authorities) and, of course, plenty of hip shaking. It's a decidedly guerrilla endeavor that appears to have been done on a budget hovering around zero (aside from a performance scene, the entire thing appears to have been shot on handheld cameras). The Britneys, Beyoncés and Gagas would probably never make something like this ... and yet, here it works, mostly because, well, it just sort of seems like the kind of thing Shakira would do. For that alone, she deserves to be praised. Because unlike Matt & Kim (or Erykah Badu, really), Shakira has plenty to lose. Her albums are big events, things that resonate across continents, and it would be rather easy (or, at least, expected) for her to come out of the gate with a big-budget, glossy pop video. Instead, we get "Loca," which is none of those things, and is probably better because of that. And though it features some near-nudity and some illegal activity, the thing that resonates most about the "Loca" video is that none of that bad behavior is played up for shock value. Instead, it all helps match the kinetic, herky-jerky energy of the song itself. "Loca" is the rare video that doesn't attempt to outshine the song it's based on. Instead, it complements it. This is a very lively song, after all, so what better way to capture that than with a very lively video? There's a calculated madness to the "Loca" video, a vibrant, unchained energy, the kind very few artists can conjure up, no matter how big the budget. And, come to think of it, that's a pretty accurate way of summing up Shakira's entire career. It's called synergy, people.

Love it! I just want to see it all over the music channels now!

Video premieres tomorrow on Daybreak.

It's actually 5 English songs: Loca Rabiosa Addicted To You Waka Waka Islands http://www.sonymusic.de/Shakira/Sale-El-Sol/P/2428016/D/0 But yeah, not many. I'm wondering if Addicted To You will be a second single for non Latin countries. Rabiosa might be, but it's another El Cata song and is probably similar to Loca.

Video should be out this week. First awesome performance on Letterman: UHocMm0ndXU

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.

Full English version, decent quality recording: o2al-MhMoVg I preferred the LQ to be honest :lol:

Exactly. Other than California Gurls, Teenage Dream and TGIF, the rest of the album is BORING. The melodies are forgetable and the lyrics are cliché after cliché. And the production on this sounds like she didn't know whether to be Ke$ha or Kelly Clarkson, and has fallen into some lame-o sound inbetween where the guitars sound like they're being played on a keyboard.

You can hear the Spanish version in this BTS vid: r5ctWqXYZ10

As someone who dislikes Dizzee - I actually quite like the sound of his rap on this - it flows pretty well. I cannot get this out of my head; "loca loca loca" is so catchy, even from that LQ rip.

Peacock is awful. Calling a penis a peacock is hardly subtle inuendo. It's like something a child would find funny.

First single from Sale El Sol This is an mp3 made of people's recording from the video shoot: http://www.sendspace.com/file/07zzit Really LQ but you get the idea. Pics from the vid: http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/bg/Shakira%20Shakira%20Films%20Music%20Video%203%20SmDnQCIxuuLl.jpg http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/bg/Shakira%20Shakira%20Films%20Music%20Video%203%20ZmGCSyxPNH-l.jpg http://a.imageshack.us/img94/7553/normal100819p2shakirabg.jpg http://i35.tinypic.com/ivfpxw.jpg http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a264/tumegustas/big-pictures_t_shakira-19081004.jpg

The video is incredible. From thinking she was a bag of shite, I now think she is amazing.

I love how shocking everything about this song and video is.

This album is terrible. I was looking forward to it after California Gurls as well. My fave is TGIF. Everything else sounds so half baked and like something a child would put together. Firework would be ok if her vocals weren't so ghastly.