Shakira: Oral Fixation, Vol. 2
CASE MEMORIAL LIBRARY CALL NUMBER: CD/ROCK/Shakira
ARTIST WEBSITE: http://www.shakira.com/
Jon Pareles wrote a substantial profile, "The Shakira Dialectic," in the New York Times, 11/13/2005. "Her lyrics . . . mix generalized pop sentiments with unlikely confessional nuggets. In the ballad 'Your Embrace' on her new album, Shakira wonders, 'What's the use of a 24-inch waist if you don't touch me/ Tell me what's the use again of being on TV every day if you don't watch me?' And her music has a savvy but nearly unhinged eclecticism. Another new song, 'Animal City,' starts with an Arabic-flamenco vocal flourish, switches to synth-pop, tosses in some surf guitar and tops it with mariachi horns: 'Never mind the rules we break,' she sings. Even in her more conventional rock or pop songs, her voice is untamed, or rather, her voices: a tearful, sultry alto; a cutting, breaking rock attack; a girlish lilt; a whispery insinuation. . . . [She] was still working on 'Oral Fixation, Vol. 2' after its single, 'Don't Bother,' had been released. She was under deadline pressure by that point but, she says, 'You can't ripen a fruit by hitting it with rocks.'"
ARTIST WEBSITE: http://www.shakira.com/
Jon Pareles wrote a substantial profile, "The Shakira Dialectic," in the New York Times, 11/13/2005. "Her lyrics . . . mix generalized pop sentiments with unlikely confessional nuggets. In the ballad 'Your Embrace' on her new album, Shakira wonders, 'What's the use of a 24-inch waist if you don't touch me/ Tell me what's the use again of being on TV every day if you don't watch me?' And her music has a savvy but nearly unhinged eclecticism. Another new song, 'Animal City,' starts with an Arabic-flamenco vocal flourish, switches to synth-pop, tosses in some surf guitar and tops it with mariachi horns: 'Never mind the rules we break,' she sings. Even in her more conventional rock or pop songs, her voice is untamed, or rather, her voices: a tearful, sultry alto; a cutting, breaking rock attack; a girlish lilt; a whispery insinuation. . . . [She] was still working on 'Oral Fixation, Vol. 2' after its single, 'Don't Bother,' had been released. She was under deadline pressure by that point but, she says, 'You can't ripen a fruit by hitting it with rocks.'"
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