Have you ever wondered what the meaning of the titles of Shakira's tours
and CD's is? Here's a list of Shakira's explanations:
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Fijacion Oral 1 and Oral Fixation 2 |
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"I
always end up saying everything I think about." The concept
also reaches beyond this, "The stage at which human beings
are the most orally fixated is the first stage of our lives, which
is the most elementary, the most instinctive, and the most primitive.
I think I am still in that stage, especially at this moment because
I feel the most in touch with that animalistic aspect within me."
-Shakira (08/05 Fijacion
Oral Press Release)
"I consider myself a very oral person. I live through what I say, what I sing ... Also, the oral state has been - as it is for all of us humans - a vital way for me to discover the world ... Orally, you discover its multiple tastes and flavors, kisses ..."
So should folks take their minds out of the gutter?
"Or simply don't. Think whatever you want to think. It's a free nation," she laughs.
-Shakira (11/08/05 New York Post) |
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Tour
Of The Mongoose |
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"It's
called the Tour of the Mongoose, and the mongoose is basically one
of the few animals who can defeat the most venomous snakes with just
one bite," she said. "And that's why I decided to name my
tour that way, because I think that if we all have a little mongoose
inside that can defeat the hatred and the resentment and the prejudice
of everyday, we can probably win the battle."
-Shakira (01/17/03 MTV.com
Shakira Explains Mongoose Mystery) |
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Laundry
Service |
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"Laundry
Service." You see, she starts, she spent the past year on her
two great passions, love and music, so it was like going through the
laundry and getting full service, because she feels cleansed and renovated.
-Shakira (By
Agustin Gurza of the LA Times)
Laundry Service -- so named, she says, because "I went through
a stage when I felt cleansed, renewed, thanks to love and music, which
are like soap and water"
-Shakira (Shakira
Declares Her Territory - March 28, 2002) |
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Tour
Anfibio |
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| She
called her 2nd tour the Anfibio Tour because she moved like an amphibian
in the water and a gazela on the land. |
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Dónde
Están los Ladrones? |
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The
title of Shakira's DELL album refers to the theft of her luggage
from an airport in Bogotá, Colombia. The suitcases contained
the lyrics for her DELL CD. This happened a couple of months before
she walked into the recording studio to begin recording that album.
She had to remember all of those songs again. She said that this
was dramatic and traumatic for her. Some of the songs she had written
so long ago, but she remembered. (shakirathunder.com)
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