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earlgreytea68: Shakira songs
Ok, chronological order, because it just wouldn't be possible to rank them in any other order.
1. Pies Descalzos, Suenos Blancos.
This is the song that made me fall in love with Shakira. You have to understand what it was like growing up, listening to Spanish music. My options were infectious merengues about the shortness of a lady's skirt and sweeping ballads guaranteed to give you cavities. This Shakira chick was different. She was quirky, she was angry, and she was awesome. This song is about the expectations Latina women have thrust onto them from birth. The litany of things she DOES NOT WANT at the end? Yeah, it's like someone opened up my high school journal and put it into song. (Also, marvel at how gorgeous she is with her natural black hair...I miss it)
2. Antologia
Beautiful, bittersweet song about everything she gained and lost during a relationship. This performance is from a concert years after the song was released. You'll want to notice how the audience sings along to every word. Because it is awesome.
3. Inevitable
This song just explodes at the chorus, and I love it. She's listing all her faults, because she wants to be up front with her guy. It also has a special place in my heart, because it was the first song she translated into English. I remember very clearly, watching her perform it on the Rosie O'Donnell show, when Gloria Estefan was the guest host. And I was so excited that the Estefans had taken her under their wing and were unleashing her greatness onto the English-speaking world. Sigh. That, uh, didn't turn out as expected.
4. Que Me Quedes Tu
Ok, it hurts my soul to see her looking this blond. Why, Shakira?! I'll ignore that for now, and just say that the lyrics of this song are beautiful. By the time we get to Laundry Service, we get into that interesting contradiction, in that she is a brilliant song-writer in Spanish, but completely trite and WTF in English. Who is going to confuse your breasts with mountains? No one. Anyway, she hits notes in this song that make me cry if I'm feeling especially melancholic.
5. Tie! Look, the entire Fijacion Oral album was brilliant, and I'm allowed to cheat a bit. So, Lo Imprescindible, which she's never made a video for, apparently. So, bonus for you if you're a Dark Angel fan. This song is just gorgeously dark and desperate and yes, that is German at the beginning. Which totally fits the mood of the song, since it's slightly sinister. And, Las de la intuicion, which I loved so much that it was EGT's ringtone for over a year. Fun, flirty song about how you will love her because it is foreordained.
earlgreytea68: Shakira songs
Ok, chronological order, because it just wouldn't be possible to rank them in any other order.
1. Pies Descalzos, Suenos Blancos.
This is the song that made me fall in love with Shakira. You have to understand what it was like growing up, listening to Spanish music. My options were infectious merengues about the shortness of a lady's skirt and sweeping ballads guaranteed to give you cavities. This Shakira chick was different. She was quirky, she was angry, and she was awesome. This song is about the expectations Latina women have thrust onto them from birth. The litany of things she DOES NOT WANT at the end? Yeah, it's like someone opened up my high school journal and put it into song. (Also, marvel at how gorgeous she is with her natural black hair...I miss it)
2. Antologia
Beautiful, bittersweet song about everything she gained and lost during a relationship. This performance is from a concert years after the song was released. You'll want to notice how the audience sings along to every word. Because it is awesome.
3. Inevitable
This song just explodes at the chorus, and I love it. She's listing all her faults, because she wants to be up front with her guy. It also has a special place in my heart, because it was the first song she translated into English. I remember very clearly, watching her perform it on the Rosie O'Donnell show, when Gloria Estefan was the guest host. And I was so excited that the Estefans had taken her under their wing and were unleashing her greatness onto the English-speaking world. Sigh. That, uh, didn't turn out as expected.
4. Que Me Quedes Tu
Ok, it hurts my soul to see her looking this blond. Why, Shakira?! I'll ignore that for now, and just say that the lyrics of this song are beautiful. By the time we get to Laundry Service, we get into that interesting contradiction, in that she is a brilliant song-writer in Spanish, but completely trite and WTF in English. Who is going to confuse your breasts with mountains? No one. Anyway, she hits notes in this song that make me cry if I'm feeling especially melancholic.
5. Tie! Look, the entire Fijacion Oral album was brilliant, and I'm allowed to cheat a bit. So, Lo Imprescindible, which she's never made a video for, apparently. So, bonus for you if you're a Dark Angel fan. This song is just gorgeously dark and desperate and yes, that is German at the beginning. Which totally fits the mood of the song, since it's slightly sinister. And, Las de la intuicion, which I loved so much that it was EGT's ringtone for over a year. Fun, flirty song about how you will love her because it is foreordained.