Shakira
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Shakira
Shakira is the tenth studio album by Colombian singer and songwriter Shakira, released on 21 March 2014 by RCA Records. It is her first English-language album since her eighth studio album, She Wolf (2009). Shakira revealed in November 2011 that she had begun work on the album, which continued into 2013. The album was initially set to be released in 2012, but was delayed because of Shakira's pregnancy and scrapped most of those songs and started making new ones. Since starting the album, Shakira departed Epic Records, signed a new management deal with Roc Nation and subsequently signed to Epic's sister label, RCA Records.-Wikipedia
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Billboard
Shakira's "Shakira," her first studio album in four years, may at first blush sound as if it could be a disparate affair, but instead, it's a cohesive, organic set, with roots that lie mostly in melodic pop-rock and unexpected touches from multiple influences.
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The Washington Post
Another appealing album from a charming pop star.
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POP MATTERS
All in all, Shakira manages to show the singer's versatility and reconfirm her status as a pop force to be reckoned with.
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The Telegraph
Shakira's 10th album is not entirely seamless, but she still traverses musical styles like few other.
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Sputnik Music
It's a joy to hear Shakira make a more personal and organic collection of songs, one that doesn't seem forced or even without its own share of fun moments as well.
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ALL MUSIC
Whatever the setting, she not only sounds comfortable, she sounds powerful, and that goes a long way toward making Shakira a nice state-of-the-art pop album for America and the rest of the world.
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The New York Times
“Shakira” is a style-hopping album that leaps from electronic dance music to reggae to folk-pop to distorted rock to, well, current country. . . .
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Boston Globe
The real achievement, though, is that it’s also her most personal effort in years, a reminder that there’s a lot of heart and soul beneath the shiny exterior of her global stardom.
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Los Angeles Times
Not enough Shakira in 'Shakira'.
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Rolling Stone
She pins huge choruses and a mercurial vocal tone to music that’s so effortlessly eccentric and omnivorous you’ll hardly notice when a banjo (and Blake Shelton) enter on “Medicine.”
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Thomas Bleach
What this album is lacking is a couple of strong tracks that leave you thinking “this will be a hit” but this isn’t the case with the majority of the album classed as “album filler”.
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The Oneida Daily Dispatch
But her recent albums haven't matched the spark, edge and charisma from her work a decade ago, and her new self-titled release, while enjoyable at times, doesn't showcase this Grammy-winning, Golden Globe-nominated superstar in the right light.
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411 Mania
For all the genre-hopping on this record it makes a nice change to just be able to take in a soothing, multi-faceted vocal that is simply a pleasure to listen to.
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Newsday
On her new album, "Shakira." (RCA), however, she is more focused than ever on charming those who have heretofore been unmoved by her truth-telling hips.
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Student Life
The eponymous album features many different sounds, as Shakira experiments with different styles including reggae, rock and folk, as well as styles she’s more used to, like pop, dance and acoustic. The songs included in the album show off the range in Shakira’s talent and abilities as a musician.
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Music Is My Oxygen
And so it goes. Shakira. is not a complete fiasco by any stretch, but neither is it the self-portrait or magnum opus we might have hoped for.
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abc 7
On "Shakira," her first self-titled album in her career, the singer blends an array of musical flavors that are familiar to albums of the past, only this time bringing together all in one, eclectic package.
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neon tommy
In general, Shakira's new album proves her musical versatility and fearlessness.
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Cultured Vultures
One thing that has always set apart Shakira from the other female artists has been her intimate and often candid honesty, and this album is no exception.
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brent music reviews
All in all Shakira. proves to be a well done album that finds the artist restlessly shifting styles. It’s not perfect nor is it innovative, but Shakira. is no slouch either.
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YORK VISION
The genius thing about Shakira is that it’s come full circle for Shakira. It includes everything that has elevated her to global megastar but the thing that will hook in new fans, rather than her iconic Latin-wail, is the rockier edge to the album.
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USA TODAY
Hips still don't lie, but Shakira also extols the more settled sense of joy that comes from finding what you were looking for.
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POP ARAZZI
Shakira should go down as the album where Shakira experimented with her sound and ultimately found herself – and hopefully albums to come will be more refined and less all over the map.
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the Filtered Lens
Shakira takes a number of different influences on this album and has fun with them – so even if it isn’t much different from her past work, it’s still great, because it’s simply fun to listen to.
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THE DENVER POST
But her recent albums haven’t matched the spark, edge and charisma from her work a decade ago, and her new self-titled release, while enjoyable at times, doesn’t showcase this Grammy-winning, Golden Globe-nominated superstar in the right light.
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Digital Spy
If you're after something cutting-edge that pushes pop forward, you won't find it here, nor will you find, this time around, much in the way of political comment.
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POP blogged through STAN eyes
The album is a great testament to how versatile Shakira's voice is but it lacks direction.
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entertainment.ie
The intent of the album is clear, to return to the roots of Oral Fixation with rock jam love songs and sexy time booty shakers. Unfortunately, there are far too few of the latter, and all of the former are far too samey.
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