Is Shakira any good?

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She has a great name, and someone on Sinister was singing her praises. But I never listen to the radio so I don't know what she sounds like.

What do you think?

― DV, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I forget the name of her single (is it "Whenever Wherever"?), but I thought it was dreadful. Her voice reminds me of a bit of Dolores O'Riordan, and that's just all of the shrieky yodel-ly bits.

― Nicole, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

plus all the wind pipes at the end of the song!!!

― Rach, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If you like this, you should check out Halo's In The Cold Light Of Day

Naggingly addictive, but ultimately no good

― Sonicred, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sorry, meant pan pipes

― Rach, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In the vein of All Saints and Daphne and Celeste, she's the designated "Pop act that music journalists have to like".

Thus she's a bit rubbish.

― Judd Nelson, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

cant sing cant dance cant entertain

the music is horrible.

anyone saw her appearance on top of the pops? that was a good laugh.

― 9, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have heard some comentaries saying she was kind of a indie goddes or a poet singer in South America, and I have to say that this is totally false. She appeared around the time of Alanis' Jagged Little Pill, and was very often compared to her. Her spanish albums were kinda catchy, but that's all, besides a lot of publicity always make the music to stay on your head... She used the method of supposed "intelectual references" trying to be original and that's why all the people that listened to Backstreet Boys also liked Shakira and felt profound. There is a problem with people who like music when looking for other culture's music. Because they know just the a little bit of what is produced it doesn't mean that is the best, or that is good for being different. the same happens with Manu Chao, I mean his last album is totally crap, but is adored by some people because is exotic. And a lot of brazilian music also. well, dirty vicar I hope this helped a little bit. the origin of latin rock in spanish was basically in Argentina, and there are great bands from that time like Almendra, Manal, and later Sui Generis and Pescado Rabioso. Almendra and Pescado Rabioso are the bands of the genius Luis Alberto Spinetta. I'm not Argentinean. But those bands are really good.

― JE, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Shakira sucks. Her new single "Underneath your clothes" is lame. She should have just left the song "Eternal Flame" alone. I haven't bought the album so I haven't seen if she got the approval to use the music. The background music is a little different from the original but still left unchanged enough to drive me nuts.

― Lindsey B, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Best thing I've heard so far this year

― dave q, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In the vein of All Saints and Daphne and Celeste, she's the designated "Pop act that music journalists have to like".

Except Daphne And Celeste actually are highly daft fun and amusing even without dodgy lines about humble breasts, and All Saints actually had good songs. "Wherever Whenever" is AVERAGE and BORING, which in POP means BAD.

― EdwardO, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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― Queen G, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dave Q is back!

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

WHn I heard "Whenever, Wherever" I thought it was a SURVIVOR tie-in. I imagined a video of her dancing w/aboriginees, like Michael Jackson in "Black or White".

― 1 1 2 3 5, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three months pass...

She's an overrated T&A act. If you take away the fact that she's 50% Lesbianese or whatever the hell she is, all the mystique in her act is gone. @$#! her.

― Eric Smith, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I really dig "Underneath Your Clothes" due to Marvin Gaye meets Elvis Costello lyrics and Beatles horns.

Peformance of "Love Is A Battlefield" with Mary J Blige sole highlight of last VH-1 Divas shebang (not that I watched, cough, cough)

― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Shakira is probably the worst pop artist I can think of offhand. As I said before, if I wanted to hear aload of fortune cookie one liners tacked together I'd eat chinese food for a week and fucking collect them.

― Ronan, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ronan, you are lacking in wisdom. Wherever Whenever is one of the great pop classics of our times.

I love Shakira.

― DV, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like the Mano Chao album. It's possibly overrated - but that "King of the Bongo" song makes me dance around like a nutter with a big grin on my face.

― phil, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i once had a fortune cookie which said: "someone in your family will go to the moon"

― mark s, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Is that not where you lizards meet?

― Graham, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yes yes Shakira has a great ass.

― Julio Desouza, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

She's fucking awful.

― Marc, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Whatever, Wherever" is lovely. It's converted me to panpipes.

― Tom, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, so it's YOU Tom on panpipes in that group of buskers that always appears and annoys me when I'm trying to eat al fresco. (I thought it was that lot from The Fast Show).

― Jeff W, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

At this rate I'm gonna buy her album...as "underneath your clothes, there's an endless story" is this years best lyric.

― jel --, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

We know you have crap taste in music Tom.

― Marc, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

haha marc is the least inspired troll ever, go work up some material dude

― Josh, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

no one ever tells me i like crap music. well, actually they do, so hooray!

― gareth, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Crapist!

― jel --, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

b-b-b-but jel, you like neutral milk hotel!

― gareth, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh sorry Gareth...I've got to be more focused with my comments...I was just putting out "crapist" as a new word! Sorry, bout that! :)

― jel --, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Shakira sings like she's deaf.

― Kris, Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

*writes down last post, as it is a stellar insult*

― Dave M., Thursday, 20 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Heh, I thought "Wherever, Whenever" was a new Cranberries single.

― Sterling Clover, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

Shakira is touring the US soon. Is this worth seeing? Has anyone seen her live before?

― Lingbertt, Friday, 28 April 2006 18:03 (twenty years ago)

i think it'd be a good show, partly for the insanely devoted audience (and partly for the awesomeish tunes). i can't imagine it not being fun.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 28 April 2006 18:18 (twenty years ago)

Her act on The Today Show this am had everyone at work in a tizzy.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 28 April 2006 19:07 (twenty years ago)

I saw her live at Madison Square Garden a couple years ago. She came through a dragon-silhouetted curtain to heavy stoner metal; she covered AC/DC and Aerosmith; she sang one song with a backdrop film of Bush playing nuclear chess against Hussein; she emerged at one point through a trap door in the stage, bellydancing with a candleabra on her head; she tripped and fell on her face once. So yeah, quite an entertaining show, I'd have to say.

― xhuxk, Friday, 28 April 2006 19:10 (twenty years ago)

I saw her on the Billboard Latin Awards last night and she looked like crap. She was dressed like someone woke her up from a nap at home and shoved her out the door to go collect her trophy. Hair pulled back, no makeup, unflattering too-tight satin pants...just disturbing overall. And that single with Wyclef is horrible.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Friday, 28 April 2006 19:15 (twenty years ago)

this picture gives me the horns

http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/7733/normalshakiraof2vc12808wd.jpg

― jaxontologist (jaxon), Friday, 28 April 2006 19:52 (twenty years ago)

xhuxk, that sounds absolutely awesome.

and yeah, that single with Wyclef is pretty bad.

― Lingbertt, Friday, 28 April 2006 19:52 (twenty years ago)

I, for one, love "Hips Don't Lie." Sure, it's nothing new, but both the horns and the chorus are great. By the time it gets to the fourth chorus (right after the 'baila en la calle' section), I actually want to dance.

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Friday, 28 April 2006 20:13 (twenty years ago)

I like it too. A lot.

― adam (adam), Friday, 28 April 2006 20:40 (twenty years ago)

When Shakira does proper Latino influenced pop (preferrably in Spanish), then she is better than most current Latino acts, and may in fact be the best of the genre since early Gloria Estefan.

When she is trying to sound like Alanis Morrissette she is terribly awful though.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 28 April 2006 21:44 (twenty years ago)

It's an undeniably catchy song, but "Hips Don't Lie" sounds like they went a little heavy on the auto-tune during the mixdown on her vocals.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:19 (twenty years ago)

to say the same thing Naive. Reminded me of that cher hit a few years back. didn't know it's called an auto-tune. you hear it a lot these days. someday i'll be telling my kids about the old days when singers used to sing.

― JB Young (JB Young), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 19:24 (twenty years ago)

Still, JB — in "Believe," the effect was intentional. I don't believe it was here — if so, it wasn't turned up enough.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 20:00 (twenty years ago)

single with Wyclef, you say?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 20:02 (twenty years ago)

I hope Wyclef is grateful to her for keeping his lame-ass career on life support.

― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 20:25 (twenty years ago)

The cheap seats went quick on this! Last I checked, the cheapest seats left were $45.50 (not including Ticketmaster charges) for seats in the highest level at the far side of the stadium. I would have paid $20, but I'm not going to pay like $60 for shit seats at this point. Oh well. If anyone sees her on this tour, plz give show review.

― Lingbertt, Wednesday, 3 May 2006 23:49 (twenty years ago)

I like her ass...

― Marvin Gaye, Thursday, 4 May 2006 12:23 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

I love this No song.

― Surmounter, Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

underneath your clothes, there's an endless story

i've been deliberating off and on for years about exactly what the fuck this means

― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

it's a fat joke, I think.

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

hahahahah

― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

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