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Poker Face as a track initself is the best, its a modern day classic, inventive and fresh proving itself as a monster worldwide too. it did it on its own merits not needing reality tv to boost it. simon cowell has to be denied he is getting smugger every year knowing he has a lock on #1s.

what the f*** indeed! its 100% amanda ghost telling shakira to sing that. trying to get some royalties are we mandagoo? :naughty: if its a battle between gypsy and men in this town, then MITT wins easily, it is getting better response/reviews by the music critics and by fans/non fans. gypsy as 3rd single will slow down the era, she needs momentum with an energetic fresh sounding track, they have to believe in ths track!! and what if Give It Up To Me is 4th instead of MITT. MITT is getting squeezed out its already on tender hooks, its just like Migrate all over again, what a tragedy that was, just awful its too painful to think about that the f*** ups in that mariah era :cry:

that just great :wacko: this may not go top10? radio 1 better playlist this, you hear you $h!tst!! i have decided not to forgive and forget their trifilin ways over the HDL fiasco. no

i love the contempary dance on the bed, the gentle then aggressive moves reflecting the up n down in the love affair. for me its not as iconic as the animal moves in the golden cage of she wolf but another distinctive inventive video with a healthy dose of bonkers

yes tis is ;) total single sales around 190,000 not bad ^_^ no really that isn't bad. very decent and respectable its just in not WW/HDL territory :rolleyes:

she's also going to be on paulo grady, but i still feel the biggest problem for lack of sales is the album is too dear for just 9 english tracks, it can't compete with others that have more tracks at the same price. value for money is important

tis a shocker to see it fall so hard, for now it is flopping, i'm not deluded call a spade a spade. but can it be saved? shakira is hard to predict. for now the uk public are totally unsure about her and the first single. they won't commit to spending £9 on an album. they may want to hear more. plus the release has no back up. when shakira left the uk the promo dried up, also i'm going to nit pick cause i think its relevent and is a importan factor... the album is over priced why charge £8.99 for 10 tracks when you can buy madonna GH for £8.99 with 18 tracks or chipmunk which her competition also sold for £7.99 with 13 tracks. her album should have been £6.99 ;) or £7.99 i have not seen any tv ads or print ads/posters for She Wolf, they didn't back up the release. Because the album is flopping hard, sony uk may be having crisis talks or they may not care and think they did enough. i wonder if DIA will get released. they may feel they need urgent action to save the album and need all out commercial track to save it like the timbaland track. but its not on the album? here comes the UK re-release, they should have delayed it like in the US. thankfully shakira isn't chasing sales and chart positions. it doesn't really matter, she makes money from worldwide touring and she is in good hands with powerful live nation deal. she is leaving epic/sony. it only really sucks for sony/epic cause they make money from sales. shakira did exactly what was asked from her doing all that promo, if they handled it badly then they get what they deserve low sales.

oh yeah, you be right. yes i forgot that :hithead: actually by delaying the physical single it may temp folk to buy the album after hearing DIA.

great result in ireland, they really like her!!! shes never been there to do promo :o sales were close between madge and shakira, its s shame she couldn't hold on to #3 but shakira's a slow burner in the UK.

its typical timbaland but its a grower, us radio are embracing this already, this remix version has more energy and the chorus is now :wub: T2GrWEt8u4k

why wait for later :wacko: the worst week to release aka the most competitive. sony/bmg/rca/amamda ghost should time it with her x factor performance. the single needs to be given to radio very soon like next week, with a remix version with kid cudi just in case UK radio and radio 1 give shakira a hard time again and don't playlist her. sony uk needs to keep up momentum and not have this dry period of november in between.

excellent start lets hope she hangs on in there. top5 would do me! oh that chip diddy chip, i saw his album yesterday and it was selling for £7.99 Vs Shakira £8.99. OF2 was a subtle seller, last thing i knew after the era was over the album reached 300k but somehow 75k worth of sales were generated. i wonder how much LS has sold now?

Men In This Town

i bought it today from hmv, love this moon cd. heres my rate n review: 10 She Wolf - thrilling, sexy, quirky, futuristic track, an truly original cocktail of electronic, disco + lycanthropy. no one else could get away with this song only shakira. a totally distinctive shakira classic 9.5 Did It Again - lovely chugging track with a melancolic edge, best thing about it are the superb lyrics about making mistakes in love (full review in DIA topic thread) 9 Long Time - this the grower on the album, it doesn't hit you like a truck cause its subtle like the intro, its all about the vibe. love the subtle fusion elements the reggaeton beat with pharrell dreamy polished production then add latin clarenet sounds. a track to dance too while loungin on roof top on a hot sweaty night in rio. no fuss track, shakira sounds really good breathy and seductive. 6.5 Why wait - quite a hollow clinical track, do not like the verses or the lyrics, the chorus is ok. but i do like the part the tabla comes in. bit eurovison for me, the arabic music is too cheesy, i'd have prefered if she found a killer sample like timbaland did for aaliyah's "more than a woman". the im not a waiter line rhyming with later upsets me. not cool imo 7 Good Stuff - love the production lots of attitude, like a demented electronic wasp, so much going on the track more shakira bonkers elements, it keeps switching but it works and is fresh. nice slowly down in the chorus 10 Men In This Town - my current favourite, what a track!! Hit written all over it, such a strong song. love the intro and the opening line...and then when the beat kicks....hevaen, dancey feelgood track, so fresh this track gleams! her voice it fantastic with lots of personality. so the she wolf is free looking for men in LA but where are they? best part? why its the ending dreamy trppy vocals "its suicide waiting". aural heaven. also the maria world sound, nice touch. 7.5 Gypsy - tradional song, simple, gentle, playful. great melody commercial, too commercial and cheesy? thankfully the nice use of indian sounds and banjo give this song some character. sounds like a number in a musical. a grower. 6 Spy - too self indulgent track, i wanted something more epic and earthy. do not like the trombone noise and the chorus is not strong enough, verses are ok, this may be too weird for me. i don't mind weirdness but i was expected something different and better. wyclef & shakira really messed with sony by not giving them a radio friendly commercial track like HDL. i would lie to see remixed. 9 Mon Amour - another fantastic intro, the fisrt 20 seconds are perfection! this is don't bother part 2, shakira tapping into her jealous and venomous side. the lyrics in the verses are original and hold your attention with all the drama that is taking place with did she really just say that in the verse? yes she did. no cliches here, she hopes the toilet doesn't flush, its as simple as that, not a lyric you'd ever hear some manufactured pop puppet utter. the ending is fantastic original. 10 Loba - nice variation, her voice more girlish, sounds exotic in spanish with the incredible thumping extra bridge, 2:18 onwards is pure perfection!! the way it builds up and shakir's voice getting deeper until she hits the climax like she pounces on the victim and then we get the S.O.S distress call, another moment of perfection. overall rating 8.5 a very successful attempt at tackling electronic music with flashes of brilliance and total uniqueness, shakira definately puts her stamp on it. this isn't a warm, earthy album, no really personal tracks and i miss the seriousness and warmth of the fixation albums, this is quite a risky album cause once again shakira messes with sony by not putting a exotic fusion feelgood hip shakers like WW, LT and HDL which are guarentee worlwide monsters. single contenders: Did It Again, Gypsy, Men In This Town (this has to get released!!)

Uk promo has been perfect, shakira really commited to doing promo here and in europe. Gypsy live really showcases her voice and it sounds like a strong single. i think this could surprise people and get huge worldwide. especially if the video is filmic i think the song will come alive more. you have to hand it to Ireland they have been so good to her, she broke a record with HDL i can't remember what but she was 9 weeks at #1 and she wolf doing best in ireland yet again. i don't think she has ever been there? its a shocker why is she liked so much i wonder? but sony need to make sure she goes there to thank them!! she MUST tour there!!

miss bonkers of course

i love this track it has so much going on i especially love shakira's lyrics, for me its definately a good second single. here is my review of the track and why it "good" and why it "works".... the good news is that pharrell production doesn't dominate the track musically, you can hear his work and input but the production building up and then getting stripped down keeps this track lively and engaging maybe shakira's input on the production is balancing it out. as a whole this is track has a melancholic quality, its strange to say that cause the production is lively. a song about making mistakes in love. shakira sings this in many different ways, the quality and delivery is impressive. we get soft girlish voice, then fast singing talking style, then her yearning heartfelt singing on the chorus. the bridge she sounds at first playful then more insistent as she repeats it (there is hope, not a defeatist attitude). her eh and uh yelps sound like a desperate call then exhaustion with her ways/mistakes. like she is running or chugging like a train unable to stop, its relentless we get it repeated many times at the end of the song. until she is just totally knacked. this is just a great wonderful track . lyrically great story telling, the first verse is mysterious, we have a room with danger and trouble but its heaven!? that surprise punch is typical shakira...contradicting unexpected never knowing what the next line is going to be look at the first 2 lines of she wolf as example...the last thing anyone was expecting was the word lycanthropy being sung. back to DIA it starts to accelerate now its all about the "guy", she is going fast, she is excited about him you can tell in her voice with her enthusiasm, too fast? rushing into the relationship? will she fall? the answer is yes, we know this cause my favourite line is coming up where she trips and fall on the same rock. very well realised and executed track. typical shakira

#4 in mid weeks, no chance of #3 i'm afraid. david nutta has his sturdy back up chick version pulling in 4k on itunes bootsing his overall total. jay-z track is still fresh and ahead of shakira at #2 on itunes. SW download is #2 on hmv site, #4 on amazon download, she is only getting beaten by taio cruz really cause tracks #2 & #3 are selling dirt cheap for 29p :rolleyes:

theres a new official t-pain remix at first i wasn't so sure cause imo you can't improve on the original and their voices don't compliment each other too well but then again his vocoder fast rapping is perfect for this futuristic sounding track and it grows on you :funky: 1a69hXrX93Y

there is nothing like using one of the most overplayed tracks in a tv ad, thats the bbc thinking right there, SOF is also being used by the bbc for some ad for radio1 i think :wacko: shakira should hunt down BEP and Jay-z soon. #4 will be hers soon it better be.

Germany is an important/profitable market in europe so #2 is an excellent new entry

yes its very close, he hasn't no, she is holding firm at #2 on itunes but the popularity bars are close between them. jay-z has the album version charting along with the single so that explains his rise. another thing shakira was not available to download on hmv's website but today they fixed it and she can be downloaded. that should help even if its a matter of hundreds of sales. its still all to play for we are only 2 days in sales wise. if she maintains #2 on itunes she should creep past him tomorrow. best case scenario overtake jay-z tomorrow and keep a healthy lead over him. #4 looks good to me, madonna physicals on saturday look like saving her and keeping her at #3.

didn't expect to see shakira at #5, she is #2 on frickin itunes!! take em down she wolf ;)

i voted for the howling she wolf aka miss bonkers :wacko:

i think so :coffee: at best #2 but likely #3 however if david nutta combination is still edging her then #4. i think it will be close between positions 2 to 5