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yeah everything is going smoothly, getting gr8 tv airplay on music channels and now radio1 playlisted her, it is on C but that good isn't it? :wacko: getting excited about her being C-Listed when all the other female singers have had A listed tracks in the past. oh well, its better than nothing. i can't believe we have a shakira single that is being embraced so well, fans can finally sit back and put their feet up. this era has so far had a better start than LS and OF2

up to #7 on itunes, doing better than expected there are some really big tracks ahead of her that have been well promoted. add to that the boosting of the disney fodder from the award show and the combined onslaught of 3 acts rihanna, jay-z and kanye. its a tough battle but she is hanging in there. she is back from paris and is rehearsing with her band which suggests a live performance is coming next in the promo schedule. hmv have updated, we have a 3track cd single coming on the 21st september. i'm assuming track listing...she wolf, loba and moto blanco remix. album 3 weeks after that. other news...great scott!! scott mills has made she wolf his single of the week!! it shall be played everyday this week :friends: now we wait for the momentous day she gets playlisted for the first time. i'd settle for C list not asking for much.

he brought on the full version uFpVGLBmvBs :winner:

she wolf is such a bonkers distinctive track but its genius and in another league! a futuristic electro pop song about lycanthropy with a retro boney m disco vibe oh and theres howling :wacko: its just so fresh so unique. its a risky track in the sense that its not a shakira trademark fusion hip shaker. will it be bigger than madonna here? doubtful. UK radio bums madonna like theres no tomorrow and especially this radio friendly track. she can release any song and radio 1 will playlist it no matter what she gets so much attention in the media too her profile is high. madonna the self confessed icon will be bigger here but i would like to see shakira get a big hit anything even close to HDL epic win would be jaw dropping.

is this the track listing for the album? She Wolf / Loba Spy (wyclef collabo) Did it Again / Lo hecho esta hecho Años Luz Long Time Men in Town (she was tweaking this track in the studio last week with her engineer) Good Stuff Send me an angel Gipsy Why Wait (For Later) Ultimamente Devoción i think pharrell has 2 tracks...Did It Again and Good Stuff? i wonder which is the bonkers song about restaurants? Long Time? thanks to mig23 for the info.

yeah so far so good, the video is doing its job boosting :D all last week she was in paris tweaking her album so she did nada promo. but i think she has finally finished and is coming back to the US for more promo duties. like a live performance? or maybe she will wait till VMA's? i hope its coming soon. BUT radio 1 didn't playlist her this week, its ok right?? its too early?? or is it? should we get ready for another major snubbing of shakira again? why isn't our mate scott mills doing something? i still love the freshness and bonkers aspect of She Wolf and a certain miss beyonce has finally released my favourite track from her album so i'm i aural heaven. only sweet dreams for this wolf apart from radio 1 ugly nightmares that is :wacko:

new hot remix :dance: ioxM5z6dUn4

np4xzTaDKRY oh my :o this guy knows his stuff cause its impressive alright, bring on the full version...

ah sweet pop justice, we like them its good to see she has some UK support. they have really supported her and can recognise a good distinctive track when they hear it.

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.

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.

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!!

POP MUSIC VS RESTAURANT :wacko: oh this is something we got to hear, i'm sure everybody agrees we need more songs about restaurants, thanks goodness for shakira!! serve it up baby and dish it out!! i think she has done the right thing with the ie english album tackle the dance genre, fuse it, put her stamp on it and create something different. OF2 wasn't dancey at all. well timor and LDLI were a fan favourites, maybe she got the message and i'm glad she realised that she is really good in the dance genre. can't wait to hear more.

shakiras did a few interviews...looks like the album is called "She Wolf" http://www.dailystar.co.uk/playlist/view/8...s-a-dance-riot/ http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/a164637/...ance-focus.html http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2...15875-21513113/

yeah the stand out part are the lyrics i hope people are getting used to shakira's quirky style, ( like only 10 million ways to love somebody, hips telling truth and poor coffee machines abused in offices) its just nothing like songs that are around now. the first time lycanthropy used in a a song?! this track is strong by itself and i think the music critics will appreciate its uniqueness. i reckon this be HUGE in europe, the UK is always tricky with her, never plain sailing. but we have the video coming with the "she wolf" choreography!! :D

wow, what a thrilling song!! it just a breath of fresh air intergalactic air!! so many great lines interesting use of phrasing and i like the quality of her voice too. her voice is playful, seductive, sometimes forceful but then breathy soft. just a wonderful quality to her voice. this track is just so out there some peopel may have a problem with it not being an earthy fusion hip shaker, this time she is taking us to space and back. a she wolf loose on a space ship hunting down the crew. SOS distress call at the end please save captain kirk, is the space ship doomed!?? great story telling too...so shakira actaully only shakira could get away with a song like this. this track is so strong and distinctive by itself i can't imagine how amazing it could be with live performances and video. this could really be huge i mean monster huge if the public want to hear and buy something compeletely fresh, different and new. 10/10

there is a soft painting like quality to the new shots, a bit 70s, her eyes are so big, she still looks like she is in her early 20s

ooooh this is important, so radio 1 played her!! what a a shocker considering their awful treatment of shakira in the past, thank you scott mills it seems he is our only friend at radio 1 that likes shakira but its all about being play listed!!! we have to hope radio 1 give she wolf a chance. will they play she wolf this monday? :huh:

yep glamour is back for this era after the toned down fixation era, she looks stunning i can't for the vidseo and dancing, i hope its dark n spooky but not scary :unsure:

excellent job!! we are now getting ready for loba/she wolf onslaught :w00t:

interesting, i like the fantasy element she talks about. other worldly distinctive type songs like Loba. i can't wait!! we may only be getting 10 songs (wow sony really can't control her cause most albums have more than 10 nowadays) but this woman is a perfectionist and tweakes for weeks so i am expecting greatness in all 10 tracks. deluxe could be coming plus remixes. i really like the Ultimamente title, she's coming to get us awoooooooooooo :dancing: bite us

she tweaked this to perfection!! i wonder how long she was working on the final "final" mix? the chorus is subtle with her almost dreamlike voice, like she is hypnotizing the victim making him entranced by her sweet other worldly voice but it fits in with the electronic sound and the building up feel on the track, her voice suddenly gets faster and then slowing down, its all subtle not in your face here comes the chorus part etc. but the beginning of the climax you could say....is at 2:17 when her voice is whispery and starts to building up to forceful (the cresendo) and the pounce "the attack happens", the production backing her up brilliantly and suddenly we get the SOS call warning that the she wolf is loose again. so men beware!! but then as soon as it finished you want to hear it again!! we are willing victims

well i love it!! even in LQ i can hear the greatness this is very shakira, the child like vocal is vintage shakira. the intro is subtle with nice build up daft punkesque. i can hear the boney m disconess too and then comes my favourite part the SOS call it is outstanding!! like it is coming from a lost spaceship. its subtle but its a thrilling track cause its so different. a she wolf in space! eccentric lyrics. you can feel the music and control is coming from her cause its so different so unique. lyrically she is much more distinctive and daring like a long lost sister of kate bush but with more commercial appeal. quirky futuristic dance disco wolf themed humourous fusion track, nothing like it in the charts, because of this it is a brave, risky track. only shakira!!! but good news it is a grower!! and has catchy parts so it is commercial in that sense. this is so fresh, we need this in music!! but will UK radio play this? shakira always struggles here so i am not getting my hopes up but looking at it globally i think she has a hit song, i really hope so!!

oh my! what am i to think!!??! thanks Ashley and Xylem, what the hell is coming our way!!! the track sounds very different and awesome :o my mouth is watering like a she frikkin wolf. thank goodness we have quirky shakira cause i am lovin the original lyrics! they make it sound like LDLI/Pure Intuition type dance which is all good with me cause it suits shakira really well. my guess is that too Eighth Day, it should relaunch end of the month around the single premiering. apparently there are more victims around the world, no one in the UK! Phew!! but everyone be careful and check your closet aka cupboards and while you at it your wardrobe ;) i just don't know why shakira wants to set it free!! maybe to hunt it down? :hithead:

i tried to study that clip to see if there are any hidden clues, words that spell out shakira in the background, street signs on the bus but nothing. the she wolf isn't shakira in that clip so maybe shakira is the hunter? i just love the concept and that it has a story. who is the She Wolf? :wacko: soon we shall know.