Daveportivo's Cultural Evaluation Facility

I have to admit the term "She wolf" combined with the image of Shakira gets me more than a little excited, and I think everyone's more than just a little looking forward to the video. So anyway when this track started I was really intrigued had Shakira gone all Crystal Castles on us? Like a latino pop Crimewave? Well no its another bloody Noel's House Party bassline, seriously so many songs are opting for this kind of basslines. Anyway the song is groovy as fuck and I can imagine a million different remixes of this track appearing on line in the near future. Problem is this track is all over the place, Shakira is clearly reaching out in every possible direction and hoping something will stick. One second it goes all nineties quasi rap on us complete with Dani Minogue "Ahs", then there's the ice cold electro chorus, but then over the top of that are these cringe inducing wolf noises and pants, who on earth let those slip through editting. Then it goes from Electro to a string arrangment before Shakira brings back the killer hook. Normally I'm good at predicting whether a pop singles will be a hit on first listen, but this is such a cluster fuck, it goes from ice cold to embarsing in a second, from futuristic to retro. I have to admit I like it, but I'm not sure why, it's not an obvious hit, but if has a hot video I can imagine this track being inbedded in your cranium. It's a clusterfuck, but at least she's trying, the wolf howls and pants have got to go though.