Shakira, Shakira

Intro

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• background
• back
• skyrocket
• honored

• sultry
• response to
• top of the charts
• hot

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Shakira is the sultry Latin American response to U.S. pop divas Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. The hit single Hips Don’t Lie, featuring Wyclef Jean, from her album Oral Fixation 2 has been at the top of the charts since its release in March, 2006.

Listen to Dave and Taylor talk about Shakira.

Dialog

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Dave

Taylor

Dave:  My gal Shakira is on the top of the charts now with Hips Don't Lie.

Taylor:  What are the lyrics about for Hips Don't Lie? Have you been listening to them clearly?

Dave:  Well, I have. Some of it’s in Spanish, so I don’t understand it. It just sounds cool.

Taylor:  Yeah, definitely. Spanish is a beautiful singing language.

Dave:  Yeah, definitely. And Shakira is one of the few people who have topped the U.S. charts with a non-English song.

Taylor:  Mm hmm.

Dave:  And the fact that she’s just hot.

Taylor:  Yeah.

Dave:  What is she, Colombian-Lebanese?

Taylor:  Yeah.

Dave:  Or, her father is American but of Lebanese background.

Taylor:  I saw her perform on American Idol a few weeks or months back, along with, ah, Wyclef Jean from The Fugees.

Dave:  Yeah, well, that’s, they do the Hips Don't Lie song.

Taylor:  Oh, he’s in that, too?

Dave:  Yeah.

Taylor:  On the official release?

Dave:  Yeah.

Taylor:  He’s cool!

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