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Track List
01) She Wolf
02) Did It Again (feat. Kid Cudi)
03) Long Time
04) Why Wait
05) Good Stuff
06) Men in This Town
07) Gypsy
08) Spy (feat. Wyclef Jean)
09) Mon Amour
10) Loba
11) Lo Hecho Está Hecho
12) Años luz
13) Give It Up to Me (feat. Lil Wayne)
01) She Wolf
02) Did It Again (feat. Kid Cudi)
03) Long Time
04) Why Wait
05) Good Stuff
06) Men in This Town
07) Gypsy
08) Spy (feat. Wyclef Jean)
09) Mon Amour
10) Loba
11) Lo Hecho Está Hecho
12) Años luz
13) Give It Up to Me (feat. Lil Wayne)
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3:41
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3:34
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First Released
2009
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She Wolf (Spanish: Loba) is the eighth studio album by Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira, released on October 9, 2009, by Epic Records and Sony Music Latin. As executive producers, Shakira and Amanda Ghost enlisted collaborators including The Neptunes, John Hill, Wyclef Jean, Lukas Burton, Future Cut, Jerry Duplessis and Timbaland. Musically, the record shifts from her traditional Latin pop and pop rock musical styles, instead exploring electropop, with influences of folk and world music.
Four singles were released from the album. Its lead single "She Wolf", along with its Spanish-language version "Loba", was a commercial success and reached the top ten in several countries. "Did It Again" (along with its Spanish-language version "Lo Hecho Está Hecho") was released worldwide as the second single, except in the United States, where its release was substituted by "Give It Up to Me"; both singles attained moderate commercial success. "Gypsy", along with its Spanish-language version "Gitana", was released as the fourth and final single off the album and was commercially successful. Shakira embarked on The Sun Comes Out World Tour in late-2010 to promote She Wolf.
Upon its release, She Wolf was met with generally favourable reviews from music critics, many of whom complimented the unusual and distinguished nature of the album. The album debuted at number fifteen on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 89,000 copies in the United States. In doing so, it became Shakira's first studio album to miss peaking inside the top ten of the chart, since Dónde Están los Ladrones? (1998). The album proved more successful elsewhere, reaching number one on the charts of Argentina, Ireland, Italy, Mexico and Switzerland. It also charted inside the top five of countries like Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom. She Wolf was certified double-platinum in Colombia and Mexico, platinum in Italy and Spain, and gold in countries like France and the United Kingdom. She Wolf has reportedly sold more than two million copies worldwide.
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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-style vocals – on her side here, one can conclude She Wolf is perhaps the most enjoyably varied pop album of 2009.
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She Wolf (Spanish: Loba) is the eighth studio album by Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira, released on October 9, 2009, by Epic Records and Sony Music Latin. As executive producers, Shakira and Amanda Ghost enlisted collaborators including The Neptunes, John Hill, Wyclef Jean, Lukas Burton, Future Cut, Jerry Duplessis and Timbaland. Musically, the record shifts from her traditional Latin pop and pop rock musical styles, instead exploring electropop, with influences of folk and world music.
Four singles were released from the album. Its lead single "She Wolf", along with its Spanish-language version "Loba", was a commercial success and reached the top ten in several countries. "Did It Again" (along with its Spanish-language version "Lo Hecho Está Hecho") was released worldwide as the second single, except in the United States, where its release was substituted by "Give It Up to Me"; both singles attained moderate commercial success. "Gypsy", along with its Spanish-language version "Gitana", was released as the fourth and final single off the album and was commercially successful. Shakira embarked on The Sun Comes Out World Tour in late-2010 to promote She Wolf.
Upon its release, She Wolf was met with generally favourable reviews from music critics, many of whom complimented the unusual and distinguished nature of the album. The album debuted at number fifteen on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 89,000 copies in the United States. In doing so, it became Shakira's first studio album to miss peaking inside the top ten of the chart, since Dónde Están los Ladrones? (1998). The album proved more successful elsewhere, reaching number one on the charts of Argentina, Ireland, Italy, Mexico and Switzerland. It also charted inside the top five of countries like Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom. She Wolf was certified double-platinum in Colombia and Mexico, platinum in Italy and Spain, and gold in countries like France and the United Kingdom. She Wolf has reportedly sold more than two million copies worldwide.
User Album Review
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-style vocals – on her side here, one can conclude She Wolf is perhaps the most enjoyably varied pop album of 2009.
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