History Music / SHAKIRA

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** "Illegal" has the verse "Who would've thought[=/=]That you could hurt me[=/=]The way you've done it[=/=]So deliberate so determined". The song is preceded by "No", the general message of which (you try translate that coherently) is "I can't believe you could hurt me like that, so cruelly". "Illegal" then ends with "I'm starting to believe it should be illegal to deceive a woman's heart." [[CaptainObvious Clearly, she's getting tired of the cheating]].

Things are looking big for Shakira. "[[Music/HipsDontLie Hips Don't Lie]]", a collab with Wyclef Jean, is still the world's best-selling single of the 21st Century and is the world's biggest pop song ever as well as being the Website/YouTube video with the highest number of views until 2007 ''and'' spawning "Hips Don't Lie (Bamboo)", the 2006 [[UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup FIFA World Cup]] anthem. Later songs "She Wolf" and "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)" proved that she is still one of the biggest stars in the world right now; "Waka Waka" is currently the 28th most viewed Website/YouTube music video of all time with 1.4 billion views, and was the 2010 World Cup anthem.

** Those unfamiliar with her early career will be surprised that ''Pies Descalzos'' and ''Donde Están Los Ladrones?'', even her MTV Unplugged, were more alternative rock than the latin pop that made her worlwide famous.
** Oral Fixation Vol 2 includes a few surprisingly thought-provoking songs like "How Do You Do?" ([[GodIsFlawed questioning the righteousness of God]]) and "Timor" (a brilliant satire on how the west treats thrid world countries). Rest assured, she never gets that deep again with her discography.

Things are looking big for Shakira. "[[Music/HipsDontLie Hips Don't Lie]]", a collab with Wyclef Jean, is still the world's best-selling single of the 21st Century and is the world's biggest pop song ever as well as being the YouTube video with the highest number of views until 2007 ''and'' spawning "Hips Don't Lie (Bamboo)", the 2006 [[UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup FIFA World Cup]] anthem. Later songs "She Wolf" and "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)" proved that she is still one of the biggest stars in the world right now; "Waka Waka" is currently the 28th most viewed YouTube music video of all time with 1.4 billion views, and was the 2010 World Cup anthem.

* AcceptableFeminineGoalsAndTraits: "Pies Descalzos" ("Bare Feet"), which seems to be sung to a teenage girl telling her the expectations of being a woman by equating one with all women of history; however, it may be presented as satire by loading all of these expectations onto teenage girls at their quinceañeras. It starts with mentioning the original sin, [[labelnote:more discussion]]though going on to say that women fought dinosaurs, then gets back to criticizing the girl for saying she wants her own happiness when she (or, historically, women) had never cared a bit about herself. The chorus says she comes from an ancient race of bare feet and white (perhaps 'pure' or innocent) dreams, and (though hard to understand even in Spanish) that she always assumes iron left in heat weakens, likely a metaphor for crumbling under pressure, and potentially saying not to believe that (about herself).[[/labelnote]] Then a verse describes how she (the addressee)/women built lives that were perfectly calculated, but says that she (the singer) is a complete mess by not knowing timings and names and movements, before listing a lot of said "acceptable" female actions dictated by society: politeness, saying and feeling only certain things, working hard, being pure in religion, to not speak at the dinner table, to ''[[{{Irony}} always wear shoes]]'', to dress well, to get married before 30 and, above all, have good champagne at your quinces and to perform the special waltz well. It's almost certainly satire, likely to say that it's wrong to put all this on a 15-year-old girl, and on women in general, especially since it heavily invokes tradition but also exaggeratedly ancient tradition, as well as addressing it somewhat mockingly, it may also be potentially calling on people to care about real social issues rather than making traditional gender roles a bigger deal. Or it may be genuinely warning poor teenage girls what they've unassumingly gotten themselves into, addressing the issue with sarcasm. It is probably part of the modern discourse on the role of the quinceañera and, notably, Colombia is one Latin country where it's become more common for girls to not have a quinceañera party.

* ''Pies Descalzos'' (1995)

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born February 2, 1977) is a Colombian singer and dancer who is the highest-selling Colombian artist of all time and the second most successful female Latin singer of all time (after Music/GloriaEstefan), having sold over 50 million albums worldwide. She is of Lebanese, Catalan, and Italian ancestry. Known for her belly dancing, her multiculturalism, and her Music/AlanisMorissette-like voice, Shakira is a she-wolf to be reckoned with.

* ''Dónde Están los Ladrones?'' (1998)

* AcceptableFeminineGoalsAndTraits: "Pies Descalzos" ("Bare Feet"), which seems to be sung to a teenage girl telling her the expectations of being a woman by equating one with all women of history; however, it may be presented as satire by loading all of these expectations onto teenage girls at their quinceañeras. It starts with mentioning the original sin, [[lablenote:more discussion]]though going on to say that women fought dinosaurs, then gets back to criticizing the girl for saying she wants her own happiness when she (or, historically, women) had never cared a bit about herself. The chorus says she comes from an ancient race of bare feet and white (perhaps 'pure' or innocent) dreams, and (though hard to understand even in Spanish) that she always assumes iron left in heat weakens, likely a metaphor for crumbling under pressure, and potentially saying not to believe that (about herself).[[/labelnote]] Then a verse describes how she (the addressee)/women built lives that were perfectly calculated, but says that she (the singer) is a complete mess by not knowing timings and names and movements, before listing a lot of said "acceptable" female actions dictated by society: politeness, saying and feeling only certain things, working hard, being pure in religion, to not speak at the dinner table, to ''[[{{Irony}} always wear shoes]]'', to dress well, to get married before 30 and, above all, have good champagne at your quinces and to perform the special waltz well. It's almost certainly satire, likely to say that it's wrong to put all this on a 15-year-old girl, and on women in general, especially since it heavily invokes tradition but also exaggeratedly ancient tradition, as well as addressing it somewhat mockingly, it may also be potentially calling on people to care about real social issues rather than making traditional gender roles a bigger deal. Or it may be genuinely warning poor teenage girls what they've unassumingly gotten themselves into, addressing the issue with sarcasm. It is probably part of the modern discourse on the role of the quinceañera and, notably, Colombia is one Latin country where it's become more common for girls to not have a quinceañera party.

* AcceptableFeminineGoalsAndTraits: "Pies Descalzos", which seems to be sung to a teenage girl telling her the expectations of being a woman by equating one with all women of history; however, it may be presented as satire by loading all of these expectations onto teenage girls at their quinceañeras. It starts with mentioning the original sin, though going on to say that women fought dinosaurs, then gets back to criticizing the girl for saying she wants her own happiness when she (or, historically, women) had never cared a bit about herself. The chorus says she comes from an ancient race of bare feet and white (perhaps 'pure' or innocent) dreams, and (though hard to understand even in Spanish) that she always assumes iron left in heat weakens, likely a metaphor for crumbling under pressure, and potentially saying not to believe that (about herself). The next verse describes how she/women built lives that were perfectly calculated, but says that she (the singer) is a complete mess by not knowing timings and names and movements, before listing a lot of said "acceptable" female actions dictated by society: politeness, saying and feeling only certain things, working hard, being pure in religion, to not speak at the dinner table, to ''[[{{Irony}} always wear shoes]]'', to dress well, to get married before 30 and, above all, have good champagne at your quinces and to perform the special waltz well. It's almost certainly satire, likely to say that it's wrong to put all this on a 15-year-old girl, and on women in general, especially since it heavily invokes tradition but also exaggeratedly ancient tradition, as well as addressing it somewhat mockingly, it may also be potentially calling on people to care about real social issues rather than making traditional gender roles a bigger deal. Or it may be genuinely warning poor teenage girls what they've unassumingly gotten themselves into, addressing the issue with sarcasm. Notably, Colombia is one Latin country where it's become more common for girls to not have a quinceañera party.

** In "Don't Bother" with "and [I'd] learn about football", referencing "Inevitable" line "I don't understand football". Also, ''Don't Bother" repeats the line "I promise you won't ever see me cry" and even though it was released as a single a few weeks before the ''Oral Fixation Vol. 2'' album release, "How Do You Do?" was the title track of this, including the repetitive lines "Do you ever cry?/ I sometimes cry", the latter of which is ''confessed'' - just like it was in "Inevitable" ('the truth is I cry once a month') and "Whenever, Wherever" ('the day you leave will cry a river'), which are both earlier songs.

* TheCameo: Music/EnriqueIglesias, Rafael Nadal, Music/LilWayne, Rihanna [[Music/TheFugees Wyclef Jean]], Music/{{Beyonce}}, Alejandro Sanz and Music/CarlosSantana have all featured with her in a song, music video, or both. She was also in ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' and ''Series/UglyBetty''.

* CunningLinguist: Along with Spanish and English, she is fluent in the Portuguese of Colombia's neighbor Brazil (where she broke out early in her career), and has shown herself to know a good portion of French and Italian. Not mention how "Waka Waka" has some verses in an African language.

* FirstNameBasis: If you say "Shakira," she is what comes to mind.
* ForbiddenFruit: Featured in the artwork for Oral Fixation Vol. 2.

* HotPursuit: In the video for "Ciega, Sordomuda" Shakira and friends are arrested for dancing in the street, the police [[PoliceBrutality unafraid of being rough]]. She manages to get out with some guy and there is a chase scene, complete with smashing through CardboardBoxes. The cops never quite catch them and in the end discover that they are robots and then the video ends, leaving the viewer with no knowledge whether Shakira and the this-videos-love-interest's [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext dancing with hoops to a mariachi band in the street then leading the police through streets of blindfolded anybodies to discover they are robots in an abandoned disco]] crimes were ever punished. (The cops could well have been chasing them because first she was and then the pair were both ''blindfolded'', though, and not because they broke out.) Not to mention that it [[BlatantLies blatantly lies about her height]] [[BadLiar (According to the line-up it's 5'9'')]].

** The chorus of ''Suerte'' ('Lucky', the Spanish version of ''Whenever, Wherever'') just repeats the fact that she wants to live with this guy for the rest of her life. Changes slightly at the end, saying literally that she's up to her neck for him and she wants him to stay with her. In fact, there's pretty much just ''that line'' identical in both versions.
* InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike: When Borat hosted the MTV Video Music Awards, he at one point giggled when saying Shakira's name. He then explained that "Shakira" is Kazakh for "vagina". (It isn't.) At the end of the show, he tells the audience he will later attempt to "Get into Creator/BrittanyMurphy's 'shakira'."

** That next line? "Un pie por la cara mía esta noche por el día, y qué?" (yes, in the same amount of time)!

[[spoiler: Of course, all of the information presented above, is for the benefit of [[{{Masquerade}} us normal]] {{Muggle}} humans. In reality, Shakira is the alternate persona of a [[Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace wizard,]] named [[BrainBleach Uncle]] [[FetishRetardant Kelbo!]]]]

Shakira is currently in a relationship with [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball footballer]] Gerard Piqué. The pair have two children together.

Shakira is currently in a relationship with [[TheBeautifulGame footballer]] Gerard Piqué. The pair have two children together.

* AllInTheEyes: In the music video for "Objection (Tango)", there is a sequence where Shakira is in the car looking for her wayward lover. Her eyes are illuminated by the reflection from her rear-view mirror.

** Lines in ''Whenever, Wherever'' and Spanish equivalent ''Suerte'' say, respectively, "And these two eyes that for no other/ the day you leave will cry a river" and "And these two eyes which tell me/ that they must mourn when you leave".

* BilingualBonus: Her song lyrics, and everything else really, are much more enjoyable if you know Spanish.

** The infamous lyric from "Whenever, Wherever": "Lucky that my breasts are small and humble"

** From "Something": "When I look into your eyes they say to me that God still exists"
** From "Long Time": "So let those eloquent hands of yours just keep on going"
** From "Dare (La La La)": "Your blue Spanish eyes are my witness"
** From "Broken Record": "Your hands that have no mercy are also my best friends"

* ButNotTooForeign: 1/4 Lebanese.
* CallBack: The infamous lines of "Whenever, Wherever" - "[[PetitePride Lucky for my breasts they're small and humble]]/ So you don't confuse them with mountains" - is somewhat revoked in "Costume Makes The Clown"with the ''[[DownerBeginning very first lines]]''; "Told you I felt lucky with my humble breasts/ Well I don't".

** "Illegal" has the verse "Who would've thought/ That you could hurt me/ The way you've done it/ So deliberate so determined". The song is preceded by "No", the general message of which (you try translate that coherently) is "I can't believe you could hurt me like that, so cruelly". "Illegal" then ends with "I'm starting to believe it should be illegal to deceive a woman's heart." [[CaptainObvious Clearly, she's getting tired of the cheating]].

* CunningLinguist: Along with Spanish and English, she is fluent in the Portuguese from Colombia's neighbor Brazil (where she broke out early in her career), and has shown to know a good portion of French and Italian. Not mention how "Waka Waka" has some verses in an African language.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: In her biography, ''Woman Full of Grace'', she indicates that being barefoot makes her feel like she has removed the facades from her personality and allowed her TrueSelf to shine through.
* DoubleEntendre: "Underneath Your Clothes" to the young ear is about how great the person is inside. To the ear of someone who's been through high school, not so much.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The original pressings of Oral Fixation Vol 2 don't have "Hips Don't Lie" and have its lead single "Don't Bother" as the second track. Both the album and the single failed to live up to sales expectations, and there were very real fears Shakira's career in the West was over. Fortunately, "Hips Don't Lie" was soon after recorded and released on a revised edition of the album that also included the Spanglish version of "La Tortura" that had been a hit in the US. "Hips Don't Lie" was such a huge hit it came to define Shakira's career and ensured most copies of the album you'll find include it.

* FirstNameBasis: If you say Shakira, she is what comes to mind.

* LostInTranslation: Even after she became more used to the English language, there is no denying that the Spanish versions of her songs are usually more poetic and original, and rhyme much better. Compare a direct translation of the song "Lo Hecho está Hecho" ("What has been done has already been done" is the closest translation in meaning)

** The infamous lyrics about her "small and humble" breasts is often assumed to be a case of this, but the Spanish lyrics are actually the same.[[note]]"Suerte que mis pechos sean pequeños, y no los confundas con montañas"[[/note]]

* NewSoundAlbum: Shakira switches from her Latin-pop-rock fusion to electropop for ''She Wolf'', a sound hinted at with "Las de las Intuicion/Pure Intuition".

* PantyShot: The video for “Las De La Intuición” has a lot of this.
** Also some in the video for "La Tortura"

* PetitePride: She's small chested and likes it very much.
-->Lucky for my breasts they're small and humble / So you don't confuse them with mountains

** The first two lines of 'Costume Makes The Clown' (Told you I felt lucky with my humble breasts / Well I don't) also beg to differ with the 'pride' part.

-->How many people die and hurt in your name?
-->Hey, does that make you proud, or does it bring you shame?
-->And if our fate have all been wrapped around your finger
-->And if you wrote the script, then why the troublemakers?
-->[...]
-->[[GodIsFlawed You've made mistakes]], but that's okay, [[NotSoDifferent 'cause we all have]]
-->[[{{Forgiveness}} But if I forgive yours, will you forgive mine?]]
* SelfDeprecation: ''Inevitable'' starts, in short, with "If we're being honest, I'm useless".

* SelfTitledAlbum: Her 2014 english release.
* SingerNamedrop: In true Wyclef style, he manages to repeat "Shakira, Shakira," far too many times to count, ''and'' still get "Music/TheFugees" into 'Hips Don't Lie', as well as both his home country (Haiti), Shakira's (Colombia) ''and'' her birthplace (Barranquilla).

* SpicyLatina: She holds this image, specially since the ''Oral Fixation'' albums.

** Shakira was originally an alt-rock singer more akin to Alanis. Then she began shaking her hips, dyed her hair blonde, and became Latin-Britney.

** Possibly the only person in history to dance with Music/{{Beyonce}} (in the video for their duet "Beautiful Liar") and ''not'' get upstaged.

* YourCheatingHeart: Has been on both sides of this in various songs.

** The start of "Beautiful Liar" goes: "B-{{Beyonce}}, Beyonce / S-Shakira, Shakira."

* CunningLinguist: Along with Spanish and English, she is fluent in the Portuguese from Colombia's neighbor Brazil (where she broke out early in her career), and has shown to know a good portion of French and Italian. Not mention how "Waka Waka" has some verses in African language.