She Wolf
| Shakira
She Wolf
She Wolf (Spanish: Loba) is the eighth studio album by Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira. It was released on 9 October 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 folkand world music. The lyrical themes of the album mostly focus on love and relationships and were based on the conversations Shakira had with her friends.-Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
Featuring six Neptunes productions, She Wolf is her most blatant overture to American fans yet.
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Consequence of Sound
For her latest release, She Wolf, Shakira goes even further from her roots and wanders into electronic-influenced pop, but by doing so she actually sounds more like herself than she has in a while.
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BBC
Perhaps the most enjoyably varied pop album of 2009.
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The Washington Post
Perfect kind of crazy: Shakira, 'She Wolf'.
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The Telegraph
She Wolf is the kind of addictively gimmicky pop that blends incongruous elements into something whose apparent wrongness only adds to its perfection.
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NME
So we’re pleased to report that her third English-sung studio effort is as nutty as ever; combining Neptunes-esque beats with flamenco, post-punk riffs, synths, Arabian strings, gongs and disco.
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The Guardian
Sure, a combination of Latin licentiousness and English self-taught via Bob Dylan lyrics and a thesaurus means you're never quite sure the Colombian singer knows what she's saying, . . . .
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SLANT Magazine
So it was to my surprise when it was reported that Shakira would once again be largely abandoning her Latin roots on the title track and lead single from her new album, She Wolf, this time exploring electro-pop. It was an even bigger surprise to find that she takes quite well to the sound.
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POP MATTERS
In the end, though, She Wolf splits down the middle pretty easily, half the tracks exuding a wry sexuality and a retro-rocking stylistic template while the other half dabble with already-passed production fads and remarkably incoherent metaphors.
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Music OMH
She Wolf, as the title suggests, is a primal, carnal album of songs focusing on the opposite sex and, well, having sex with the opposite sex.
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Def Pen
What can I say but fantastic album!?
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ALL MUSIC
This time, she focuses on one sound only: a pulsating electro-disco that crosses all boundaries and welcomes all nationalities. Such concentration behooves Shakira, freeing her to release her inner She Wolf, a wild wacko who’s as cuckoo as she is carnal.
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Common Sense Media
Besides trying out new sounds, Shakira's lyrics also get a little darker, with songs focused on both the good and bad sides of love.
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Billboard
With plenty of moans, guitars, doumbek, disco, clarinet and synth, Shakira's newest album, "She Wolf," is a grab bag of influences, ranging from pop rock to world music to '80s R&B.
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Boston.com
Like her last hit, “Hips Don’t Lie,’’ this new album wants us to believe Shakira is grittier and more streetwise than suggested by her origins as an earnest singer-songwriter in her native Colombia.
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Entertainment
With only nine tracks, followed by three español translations and a handful of superfluous bonus tunes, She Wolf feels a bit thin. That quibble aside, this is some of the most unusually effective dance-floor dynamite you’re likely to encounter all year.
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Entertainment.ie
Colombian pop dazzler Shakira has proven a tad irksome in the past with good singles but patchy albums - but this is her best effort yet.
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SPIN
And musically, at least, she succeeds throughout the wildly eclectic She Wolf, which bounces from Arabian-accented Neptunes-brand electro-funk (“Why Wait”) to Strokes-style garage rock (“Mon Amour”) to the lovably bonkers synth-pop title track, cowritten by the Bravery’s Sam Endicott and Santigold’s longtime partner John Hill.
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npr music
. . .By exploring new rhythms and sound combinations, she's expanded the parameters of dance pop. A few tracks on She Wolf do that, but most of the time, it seems Shakira is serving up what she knows will work commercially and nothing more.
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Nicholas Jennings
Full of buzzes, bleeps and howls, it’s full of delightfully batty lyrics and impossibly catchy beats.
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TOTALLY DUBLIN
Some undeniably terrific moments aside, Shakira’s albums up to now have been a bit underwhelming, but happily She Wolf delivers and is Shakira’s most consistent album to date.
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MTV News
FOR ALL THE CRAZINESS SURROUNDING IT, SHAKIRA'S LATEST IS A STRAIGHTFORWARD, ODDLY PERSONAL RECORD, IN BIGGER THAN THE SOUND.
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FINANCIAL TIMES
Now the Colombian star is back with her third English language album, which gives a typically singular spin to the sexual licence of norteamericano pop rivals like Britney Spears and Madonna.
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The Neptunes
Before we wrap up, we should make clear that this album isn’t nearly as bitty and disparate as we’ve made it sound – Shakira may shimmy from genre to genre here, but She Wolf still sounds like a cohesive record as opposed to a grab-bag of tracks.
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Why So Blu
The album features a mostly electronic synthesized beat mixed with world sounds that is sure to set the dance floor ablaze into the next decade.
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The Daily Iowan
She Wolf, Shakira’s third full-length English album, is strange, exotic, and positively hypnotizing. Its disco-inspired tracks and echoey, sensual vox make this release a must-own for pop-music lovers.
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HOT SAUCE REVIEWS - Mrs. Giggles
She Wolf actually sees Shakira returning to her roots and doing what she does best – no-nonsense good pop-rock tunes enhanced with a smattering of electronica.
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homorazzi
Her music can be described as pop fusion and as you probably already know, she performs and sings in both English and Spanish.
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