Wow. The dancing in the bedroom is some of the best I've ever seen in a music video. Phenomenal.
Too bad the song sucks.

The dancing is quite strong in this video. The male dancer used to dance for Madonna (Re-invention and Confessions tours). They have pretty good chemistry.

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The dancing is quite strong in this video. The male dancer used to dance for Madonna (Re-invention and Confessions tours). They have pretty good chemistry.

I know!!! His name is Daniel "Cloud" Campos. Shakira managed to rub herself all over him in bed. Lucky b*tch!

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Originally posted by DJWolff:

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Originally posted by The Future:
The dancing is quite strong in this video. The male dancer used to dance for Madonna (Re-invention and Confessions tours). They have pretty good chemistry.

I know!!! His name is Daniel "Cloud" Campos. Shakira managed to rub herself all over him in bed. Lucky b*tch!

I loved her performance of DID IT AGAIN during the European VMAs, I like the song, but something dont get me at 100% to it.

Here is the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ETVIJ5gdrA

Slant gives the album 3/5 stars:

http://www.slantmagazine.com/m...c_review.asp?ID=1914

I really wish Shakira would go back to her Latin roots. Stop trying to hop on this electro/hip hop bandwagon. U.S. audiences will fully accept her as a Latin artist. See "Hips Don't Lie" and "La Tortura" for proof. I haven't heard the full album, but from what I've heard, it sounds like Shakira is having an identity crisis.

Agree, that's pretty much what it is. An identity crisis.

Part of what I love about Shakira is that I don't know what to expect from her with every album. I'm glad she's going this route, it makes her more interesting (for me).

Yeah but the music isn't great.

"Give It Up To Me" is a desperate move to grab a hit single and "Did It Again" is bland and forgettable.

This album will flop regardless. I say shelve this album and start again.

EW gave the album an A-

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20320922,00.html

Has anyone heard the US version of the album? Shakira performed "Gypsy" on THE VIEW earlier this week and I like that song.

I'm shocked by that EW review. I'm usually very much in line with their tastes...but yeah, I kept 3 tracks from this album.
It's weird, because their A- review isn't even that praising of the album.

from BBC/ UK

Perhaps the most enjoyably varied pop album of 2009.


Mike Diver 2009-10-19

There’s much to like about diminutive Columbian singer Shakira (Isabel Mebarak Ripoll), best known to this day for 2001’s breakthrough Whenever, Wherever and her global hit of 2006, Hips Don’t Lie. As beyond these chart-conquering smashes she’s often explored some truly mind-boggling pop territories, deep-drilling for veins of inspiration absolutely alien to so many of her peers.

She Wolf is Shakira’s third English language album, though it features plenty of free-flowing Spanish vocal work, too. Años Luz is a firecracker affair, rattling military percussion underpinning some urgently delivered lyrics, and the synth throb at Loba’s heart is reminiscent of Timbaland’s cutting-edge backings for Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado.

The aforementioned brace are, actually, translations (or originals, if you prefer) of English efforts: Why Wait and the title track respectively. While there’s perhaps a greater sense of passion in songs playing out in her native tongue, Shakira’s appealing tenacity for grappling with the hugest of hooks isn’t tempered at all when she switches to English.

She Wolf – the album’s opening track and lead single – is the kind of stone cold classic of the pop world that comes along only once in several full moons. “I’m starting to feel just a little abused / like a coffee machine in an office,” she sings, and while the lyrics would sound ridiculous in the mouths of, say, The Saturdays, here they’re a clarion call for rescue. Not that our protagonist needs any help: she might not literally be morphing into a werewolf, but this neglected lover is going to get her claws into her cold other half one way or another.

But the darkness that creeps in from the edges of this record is always kept at bay by playful and inventive instrumentation and quirky wordplay from the singer, at her best when making like Mariah Carey after a quarter-bottle of tequila and a weekend lost in the rainforest: you sense she could hit the highest of notes if she wanted, but a deliberate weariness keeps her histrionics in check. And with the classy Rihanna-echoing Did It Again, the staccato Latino strains of Good Stuff and the punchy Wyclef Jean duet Spy – featuring weird baby babbling/Roísín Murphy-***********///////********//////****** vocals – on her side here, one can conclude She Wolf is perhaps the most enjoyably varied pop album of 2009.

Rolling Stone gives the album 4/5 stars !!!

... and the cover of the magazine is for her...
Can Shakira Conquer the World?

http://www.rollingstone.com/ro...ue-of-rolling-stone/