Album
Shakira
She Wolf
Sony Music (label)
12 October 2009 (released)
23 October 2009
Penning her third English language album since her critically acclaimed 2005 album Oral Fixation, hip gyrator and oddball lyricist Shakira graces us once more with her amorous antics. A veteran on the music scene in her native Columbia before she even hit our shores, Shakira makes her comeback with the trance infused She Wolf. If you’ve seen the music video, you’ll have seen Shakira’s trademark dislocation-defying moves and cage dancing.
With funky guitar and unusually, less of the Latin approach, Shakira has still maintains her fiery, breathy vocal style and does steer more towards familiar ground with tracks like the brooding “Long Time” and the funky “Good Stuff”.
The rocky and vitriolic “Mon Amour” with its tale of lost love and vengeful anger reads like a sincere one, especially with lyrics like “And every night, I pray that you don’t knock her up
‘Cause I still want to be the mother of your child”.
It’s certainly a pleasant surprise to find such a varying and accomplished playlist on an album I would probably skip over at a record store and fans will most certainly not be disappointed with what is a true return to form for one of pop music’s most established icons.
With funky guitar and unusually, less of the Latin approach, Shakira has still maintains her fiery, breathy vocal style and does steer more towards familiar ground with tracks like the brooding “Long Time” and the funky “Good Stuff”.
The rocky and vitriolic “Mon Amour” with its tale of lost love and vengeful anger reads like a sincere one, especially with lyrics like “And every night, I pray that you don’t knock her up
‘Cause I still want to be the mother of your child”.
It’s certainly a pleasant surprise to find such a varying and accomplished playlist on an album I would probably skip over at a record store and fans will most certainly not be disappointed with what is a true return to form for one of pop music’s most established icons.