Shakira Biography

"I did not set out to make two albums when I began the writing process but suddenly I realized I had written sixty songs," she continued. "Some in English and some in Spanish, and I narrowed that down to 20 songs. Sometimes songs come to me in English and sometimes in Spanish. Most of the time I let the melody suggest to me the language the song should be. The albums are totally different from one another. Each has unique songs, melodies, lyrics, and music styles."

For the first release, Fijación Oral vol. 1, Shakira takes a long hard look at herself and tries her best to paint an honest portrait of her feelings. "I was on a spiritual search where I thought a lot about life and death," said Shakira. "These songs narrate my emotions over 1 ½ years. You laugh, cry, complain, fantasize, celebrate. All of these feelings are documented on the songs."

As the album cover of Fijación Oral vol. 1 featuring a modern day interpretation of the Madonna and Child suggests, Shakira is feeding an oral fixation with these songs, "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," said. "I think I am still in that stage, the most animalistic, especially at this moment because I feel in touch with the universal woman that we all essentially are."
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