Kiri ☂ (
taotrooper) wrote2006-11-06 12:05 am
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Old music
I have a confession to make, people.
When I was a teenager, I...
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...I liked Shakira's music a lot.
*dodges tomatoes*
But of course, the idea of Shakira as a musician is weird now, that she became some sort of hybrid between Ricky Martin and Christina Aguilera. You have to understand something, and it's the fact she used to be a good artist before she sang in English. In the old times, when she was only famous in Latin America, she used to compose and play her own songs with the acustic guitar and sometimes harmonica solos. It was good pop music, splashed with some other genre influences (rock, ballad, reggae, Arabian, tropical, mariachi) in between. And her lyrics were amazing! Most of her songs were obviously about love, but they were original with nice combinations of words. The rest of them were actually meaningful, trying to send a message about humanity.
The point is, when I was in high school she rarely mentioned her hips, and only shaked her ass in one song. I swear to God.
It's so sad she sold out. And she looked soooo much prettier with black, straight hair.
To show my point, I'll plug some of her old videos. Most of you won't understand the lyrics, but I can guarantee you they're good. You can try to watch them anyway, not only for curiosity but also because the clips are conceptual and artistic in their own crazy way.
Pies descalzos (Bare feet) First video ever saw of her. The song is about human nature, from Eden to cavemen to modern society. The lyrics are so interesting. Check the rocker look she sported and the batshitness of the imagery, so fitting.
Dónde estás corazón (Where are you dear) Catchy song about wondering where her loved one is now and how she looked for him in every place she could think up. The lyrics were so much fun to memorize.
Un poco de amor (A little bit of love) Yay pseudo-reggae! :D
Se quiere, se mata (You love, you kill) The story of a very young couple who messed up. A song about abortion.
Ciega sordomuda (Blind, deaf, mute) About dumbness and stubborness of love. The video is just insane and makes no sense, but it's so much fun.
No creo (I don't believe) Another love song with somehow intellectual concepts. She doesn't believe in Marx, Sartre, whatever. Her only faith is her love. The video is pretty cool.
Inevitable I love this song. About silly confessions, and admitting she can't stop loving him. There's something so Lenny Kravitz about this video.
Ojos así (Eyes like those) Arabian song! Actually, Shakira is half Libanese (I think, or some other Middle-East country), so that explains this song. This is the only video pre-English of her in which you'll find her shaking her ass, and that's because she's belly dancing. Also, lol red hair.
So there you have it. Decadency of singers who were cool makes me a sad panda.
When I was a teenager, I...
...
...I liked Shakira's music a lot.
*dodges tomatoes*
But of course, the idea of Shakira as a musician is weird now, that she became some sort of hybrid between Ricky Martin and Christina Aguilera. You have to understand something, and it's the fact she used to be a good artist before she sang in English. In the old times, when she was only famous in Latin America, she used to compose and play her own songs with the acustic guitar and sometimes harmonica solos. It was good pop music, splashed with some other genre influences (rock, ballad, reggae, Arabian, tropical, mariachi) in between. And her lyrics were amazing! Most of her songs were obviously about love, but they were original with nice combinations of words. The rest of them were actually meaningful, trying to send a message about humanity.
The point is, when I was in high school she rarely mentioned her hips, and only shaked her ass in one song. I swear to God.
It's so sad she sold out. And she looked soooo much prettier with black, straight hair.
To show my point, I'll plug some of her old videos. Most of you won't understand the lyrics, but I can guarantee you they're good. You can try to watch them anyway, not only for curiosity but also because the clips are conceptual and artistic in their own crazy way.
Pies descalzos (Bare feet) First video ever saw of her. The song is about human nature, from Eden to cavemen to modern society. The lyrics are so interesting. Check the rocker look she sported and the batshitness of the imagery, so fitting.
Dónde estás corazón (Where are you dear) Catchy song about wondering where her loved one is now and how she looked for him in every place she could think up. The lyrics were so much fun to memorize.
Un poco de amor (A little bit of love) Yay pseudo-reggae! :D
Se quiere, se mata (You love, you kill) The story of a very young couple who messed up. A song about abortion.
Ciega sordomuda (Blind, deaf, mute) About dumbness and stubborness of love. The video is just insane and makes no sense, but it's so much fun.
No creo (I don't believe) Another love song with somehow intellectual concepts. She doesn't believe in Marx, Sartre, whatever. Her only faith is her love. The video is pretty cool.
Inevitable I love this song. About silly confessions, and admitting she can't stop loving him. There's something so Lenny Kravitz about this video.
Ojos así (Eyes like those) Arabian song! Actually, Shakira is half Libanese (I think, or some other Middle-East country), so that explains this song. This is the only video pre-English of her in which you'll find her shaking her ass, and that's because she's belly dancing. Also, lol red hair.
So there you have it. Decadency of singers who were cool makes me a sad panda.

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pero ya no solo es que se vendiese, es que desde que cantó con Alejandro-Eww-Sanz, Shakira esta "dead to me".
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Pero si hiciera un dead to me, fijo que la pongo.
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*abraza su CD de Dónde están los ladrones*
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Que nostalgia - a mi también me caia bien. Y para añadir a la deshonra, sigue de novia con el hijo de uno de los presidentes más ineptos de la historia Argentina.
Igual, no tengo conflictos con Hips Don't Lie... son las monstruosidades de su primer album en ingles (y el crimen que le hicieron a su pelo, platinandolo de esa manera) las que todavia me ponen los pelos de punta...
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Gracias por los links, me encantaban sus videos viejos :3.
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Pero tanta respuesta me reconforta porque no estoy sola ;_;
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Sus ultimas canciones ya no son de mis favoritas, me parecen muy comerciales pero pegan porque a cada rato las ponen...
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Ah, la Shakira rokera con mechas rojas y canciones de verdad... Que nostalgia, en serio. Yo todavía tenía esperanzas con ella a pesar del decolorado masivo y del crossover nulo, pero honestamente, Objection/Te Aviso Te Anuncio fue su última canción buena.
Yo tampoco tengo tanto problema con "Hips Don't Lie" (la canción... el video es una abominación y el staff que lo filmó merece ser degradado de vuelta al mundillo de filmes para adultos del que no debieron haber salido), pero lo que me terminó de matar la ilusión fue ese esperpento de "La Tortura", que si bien la canción ya era merecedora de su título, los movimientos pectorales de Shakira en ese video entraron directo en mi lista de Turn Offs. He visto tipas en videos de reggaetón moviendose con más clase que Shakira en ese video.
Lo triste es que me sigue encantando su voz, ¡pero quiero que recupere esa coolness y esa originalidad que tenía, y que recupere la inspiración para mejores canciones!
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Tengo la fortuna de sólo haber visto el video de La Tortura entero una sola vez. Mi estómago se me revolvió de cinco formas distintas x_x Pero yo desde Suerte ya lo veía venir, arrastrándose por el barro en cuero.
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Entiendo perfectamente lo de "buena cuando no era lo que es ahora". SUS CANCIONES TENIAN LETRA.
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Bueno, teóricamente todavía la tienen XDDDD La cosa es que no digan nada :/
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Doy gracias a que el unplugged con MTV ocurriera antes del inicio de su cabello rubio -___-U
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Es verdad. El Unplugged de ella era muy bueno.
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Saluditos!
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"Contigo, mi vida,
quiero vivir la vida
y lo que me queda de vida
quiero vivir contigo"
Qué poesía!!!! VERDAD??? XDDD Con qué puede rimar la palabra "vida"? Con "vida", así que usémoslo 3 veces!!! XDDD Yo no culpo al inglés de la decadencia de sus letras... culpo al amor! XD A veces a los artistas les hace mal... artísticamente hablando x_x; (de su etapa en inglés la única canción que me gusta es Underneath your Clothes)
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A mi me re gustaba cómo le quedaba el pelo rojo, y hablando de Dónde están los ladrones, una canción muy muy buena es El Octavo Día, además de las que ya mencionaste :)
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