History Music / PiesDescalzos

Shakira's philanthropic foundation shares its name with this album (Fundación Pies Descalzos). In 2002, it was re-released as a Shakira Gold Album (shortly after, there was also a Shakira Greatest Hits Album that included songs from ''Music/DondeEstanLosLadrones'' as well). Often, the song "Pies Descalzos, Sueños Blancos" will be referred to as simply "Pies Descalzos", both because the album is named for it and because [[LongTitle it's really long]].

* DoesNotLikeShoes: The album is literally called ''Bare Feet''.

* AllWomenLoveShoes: She is the poster girl for bare feet. Moreover, the song "Pies Descalzos, Sueños Blancos" pretty much outright states that women are/should be a race of barefooted people.

Shakira's philanthropic foundation shares its name with this album (Fundación Pies Descalzos). In 2002, it was re-released as a Shakira Gold Album (shortly after, there was also a Shakira Greatest Hits Album that included songs from ''Music/DondeEstanLosLadrones'' as well). Often, the song "Pies Descalzos, Sueños Blancos" will be referred to as simply "Pies Descalzos", both because the album is named for it and because [[OverlyLongName it's really long]].

* CallForward:
** The urinals it appears Shakira is playing the bass in from the music video to "Pies Descalzos, Sueños Blancos" is one of the many images referenced by the music video for "Perro Fiel".
** The lyrics of "Estoy Aquí" talk about wanting to fix a failed relationship. On her next album, ''¿Dónde Están Los Ladrones?'', the song "Si Te Vas" has her telling her love that if he leaves her, she'll have moved on: "I won't (still) be here in the same place".[[note]]"Ya no estaré aquí en el mismo lugar"[[/note]]
** The chorus of "Te Espero Sentada" may have been the basis for the lyrics of "Moscas en la Casa" on ''¿Dónde Están Los Ladrones?'', as they are very evocative of it and both use slightly oxymoron descriptions of life without the addressee and repeat "sin ti".

* MotorMouth: She is quite capable of this, and good luck trying to sing along... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmJHH026X0c Estoy aquí,]] quieréndote, ahogándome, [[SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein entastanalalalala...]]

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* ForbiddenFruit: Referenced in "Pies Descalzos, Sueños Blancos": ''tú mordiste la manzana y renunciaste al paraíso y condenaste a un serpiente siendo tú el que así lo quiso'' (in English: you bit the apple and renounced paradise, condemning a snake even though you wanted it). Imagery used to empower women, and also positively call them out for not being weak. In the music video, a female representation of gluttony is shown pulling apples off a tree and gorging on them.

** The chorus of "Te Espera Sentada" may have been the basis for the lyrics of "Moscas en la Casa" on ''¿Dónde Están Los Ladrones?'', as they are very evocative of it and both use slightly oxymoron descriptions of life without the addressee and repeat "sin ti".

* ForbiddenFruit: Referenced in "Pies Descalzos, Sueños Blancos": ''tu mordiste la manzana y renunciaste al paraiso y condenaste a un serpiente siendo tu el que asi lo quiso'' (in English: you bit the apple and renounced paradise, condemning a snake even though you wanted it). Imagery used to empower women, and also positively call them out for not being weak. In the music video, a female representation of gluttony is shown pulling apples off a tree and gorging on them.

* MotorMouth: She is quite capable of this, and good luck trying to sing along... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmJHH026X0c Estoy aqui,]] quieréndote, ahogándome, [[SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein entastanalalalala...]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:[-ShoutOut to ''Film/IlDesertoRosso'' or [[NoBudget lack of location scout]]?-]]]

# "Pies Descalzos, Sueños Blancos"

* 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.

Shakira's philanthropic foundation shares its name with this album (Fundación Pies Descalzos). In 2002, it was re-released as a Shakira Gold Album (shortly after, there was also a Shakira Greatest Hits Album that included songs from ''Music/DondeEstanLosLadrones'' as well).

->* English translations of titles: 1. "I'm Here" 2. "Anthology" 3. "A Little Bit of Love" 4. "I Want" 5. "I Need You" 6. "Return" 7. "I'm Waiting To Feel You" 8. "Bare Feet, White Dreams" 9. "I Think of You" 10. "Where are you, my love?" 11. "What is Wanted/Loved, is Killed"

# Estoy Aquí
# Antología
# Un Poco de Amor
# Quiero
# Te Necesito
# Vuelve
# Te Espero Sentado
# Pies Descalzos, Sueños Blancos
# Pienso en Ti
# ¿Dónde Estás Corazón?
# Se Quiere, Se Mata

-->--'''Billboard'''

* MotorMouth: She is quite capable of this, and good luck trying to sing along...
--> [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmJHH026X0c Estoy aqui,]] quieréndote, ahogándome, [[SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein entastanalalalala...]]

* CallForward: The urinals it appears Shakira is playing the bass in from the music video to "Pies Descalzos, Sueños Blancos" is one of the many images referenced by the music video for "Perro Fiel".

The immediate success seen allowed a 1996-97 album tour to happen, where basically every country the album was released in was visited. Despite Shakira being a teenager at the time, pretty much all of the songs are about different kinds of relationships. Those six singles released were also all successes in the US, and many of them got music videos. They are "Estoy Aquí", which was seen as the stand-out of the album and was an even bigger success than the album, "¿Dónde Estás Corazón?", which had been included on the ''Nuestro Rock'' compilation album and successful enough that it was chosen as a second single for Shakira, "Pies Descalzos, Sueños Blancos", theoretically the title track but the third single and which didn't do as well as the first two (which hit #1 and #3 on US Latin Billboard, PDSB only reaching #11) possibly because of its more balladic style and cultural subject matter, "Un Poco de Amor", which also reached #11 and was critically applauded for its reggae style, "Antología", which is largely forgotten despite being #3, and "Se Quiere, Se Mata", which shot back to #1 and retained fame in Spanish countries.

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->* English translations of titles:

''Pies Descalzos'' is the 1995 first official, though technically third[[note]]The first two were massive commercial failures and good luck finding them[[/note]], music album by Music/{{Shakira}}.

The album was made on a budget of $100,000 because the producers expected it to not do so well. They were wrong. It very quickly became one of UsefulNotes/{{Colombia}}'s best-selling albums and by the end of the year it was one of the most popular rock albums in Latin America, and doing pretty well in the Latin music scene in North America, too. Several singles were released from the album, and they were all (that had been out by that point) featured on the 1995 Latin American version of "Music/NowThatsWhatICallMusic". Given that Shakira herself was billed pretty high on those CD covers, she had almost overnight become a household name.

[[caption-width-right:350:[-ShoutOut to ''Film/IlDesertoRosso'' or [[NoBudget lack of location scout]]-]]]

''Pies Descalzos'' is the 1995 first official, though technically third[[note]]The first two were massive commercial failures and good luck finding them]]/note]], music album by Music/{{Shakira}}.