Thursday, September 25, 2025

Inevitable (Shakira) (LP 3749)

Shakira   Dónde Están los Ladrones?  (CD, Sony Music, 1998) *****  

Genre: Latin American pop

Places I remember: Virgin Megastore (Dubai)

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperbolesCiega, Sordomuda

Gear costume
Ojos Así (YouTube)

They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5Part 6

Active compensatory factors:
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (Shakira for short) is a Colombian singer-songwriter. She is a big deal in Latin America and her appeal is now global.

Back in the mid 2000's, I was reading 1001 Records You Must Hear Before You Die and Shakira's Dónde Están los Ladrones? was glowingly featured along the way. I took a punt and was amply rewarded.

Shakira sings in Spanish so her lyrics kind of pass me by (my Spanish is limited to two papers I did as a prerequisite for a masters' degree back in the late seventies). But her emotional vocal delivery and the infectious music carry me along anyway.

Where do they all belong? Yep - I agree, you need to hear this one before you die.

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