actually, it’s two babies, it’s twins.”īesides, Shakira said, it was important to take time off to give her music a chance to marinate. but in reality I was just working every day - writing, producing, making demos, creating this album, giving birth to this baby. Shakira, who hasn’t been on the charts since 2003, joked that “people might think I’ve been scratching my belly or something like that because I’ve been out of circulation. “Music is a language on its own, when it comes from the heart and when it’s authentic.” This is the moment for those things to happen, for music in Spanish to play on Anglo stations, or vice versa,” she said. “I think that little by little, the Hispanic audience can contribute to change old rules, to modify them. It has bossa nova touches, as well as rock and old-time pop influences. Her album features production work from Rick Rubin, but also Gustavo Cerati of Soda Stereo fame. When Ricky Martin and Marc Anthony released their Spanish-language albums after their pop successes, they were geared toward the Latin audience almost exclusively.īut Shakira thinks fans today are more open to listening to good music, whatever the language. ‘Music is a language on its own’It’s unusual for international artists who enjoy such crossover appeal with an English-language debut to return to their native tongue - and even more unusual to then market it to a pop audience in the United States. And for the first time, MTV aired a “Making of the Video” about the clip exclusively in Spanish. The video for the song - which features Shakira doing a torso-jiggle that would make a contortionist envious - has gotten heavy rotation on MTV. While the first single, “La Tortura” with fellow Latin superstar Alejandro Sanz, has shot to the top of the Latin charts, it’s also inching its way up the U.S. “Some of the songs happen to be in Spanish, some of them happen to be in English.” “I found myself with the surprise that I had 60 songs, and I selected my favorite ones, which cut it down to 20, and I still thought it was too much music to put on one album, so I decided to make a double project,” she said. I heard her explained by a lot of people as the Spanish-language Alanis (Morissette). “She certainly had a very media-ready presence. “She was already a stealth star by the time English radio discovered her,” Sean Ross of Edison Media Research, which tracks the radio industry, said in explaining her success. However difficult it may have been for Shakira to make the language leap, her success translated very well: Her English-language debut, 2001’s “Laundry Service,” sold more than 3 million copies nationwide as she transfixed music fans with her alluring image and songs such as “Whenever, Wherever” and “Underneath Your Clothes.” My knees were shaking when I was thinking about writing and singing in a foreign language,” the blond diva told The Associated Press in heavily accented English as she recalled writing songs with a dictionary by her side. “Don’t Wait Up” is reportedly the lead single from Shakira’s as yet untitled 12th studio album.Yet mounting a campaign for similar success in the United States proved to be more taxing than even Shakira anticipated. The latter was a massive success in Europe. Shakira also found the time to release a handful of stand-alone collaborations last year including the Anuel AA-assisted “Me Gusta” and “Girl Like Me” with the Black Eyed Peas. She doubled down in 2020, urging world leaders to donate supplies and vaccines to those who need them most.Īnd then there are the bangers. That film also shone a light on the superstar’s philanthropic endeavors in the developing world. Following the release of '90s breakthrough albums Pies Descalzos and Dnde. In 2019, Shakira released “Shakira In Concert: El Dorado World Tour,” a documentary film that documented a career-threatening vocal cord injury and her triumphant comeback. Noted for her rock-influenced approach, Shakira maintained an extraordinary degree of creative control over her music she wrote or co-wrote nearly all of her own material, and in the process gained a reputation as one of the genre's most ambitiously poetic lyricists. “I’m on it!” While four years have passed since the release of Shakira’s Grammy-winning “El Dorado,” the pop icon has maintained a high profile. “I’ve read your tweets bosses!” the 44-year-old joked in an Instagram post after fans trended #ShakiraReleaseNewMusic. Shakira has been working on new music since early 2020 when she reassured fans that she was being productive in quarantine. A post shared by Shakira announcement didn’t come as a complete surprise.
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