What do we really want from Shakira?

Alt.Latino

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4.5 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Shakira just released her first album in seven years, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran, and most listeners and critics have high praise. But this episode of Alt.Latino puts the record to the test.

Felix Contreras, Anamaria Sayre and NPR's Isabella Gomez Sarmiento talk about what makes a Shakira record a Shakira record, how pop artists reinvent themselves and loving your favorite artists even if you don't always love their music.

Songs featured in this episode:
•Shakira: "Puntería"
•Shakira: "La Fuerte"
•Shakira: "Obtener un Si"
•Shakira: "El Jefe"
•Paul Simon: "You Can Call Me Al"
•Shakira: "Cómo Dónde y Cuándo"
•Santana: "Smooth"
•Shakira: "Cohete"
•Karol G, Shakira: "TQG"
•Miles Davis: "Bitches Brew"
•Shakira: "Monotonía"
•Shakira: "Escondite Ingles"

Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Joaquin Cotler. Hazel Cills is the podcast editor and digital editor for Alt.Latino, and our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.

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0:00.0	I was thinking that the text you sent me with the dog face. What was that?
0:04.5	With a dog face? Because that girl texted me. What do you mean a dog face?
0:09.4	Okay, that's, you have to click on the photo.
0:12.1	It's the dog.
0:13.2	No, that's my background. You're supposed to look at the text.
0:17.3	Oh. Aye, aye, aye.
0:18.8	Somebody told me it gets worse with age, but I can't remember who told me that.
0:23.9	And on that note, from NPR music, this is Alt Latino.
0:29.9	I'm Felix Contreras.
0:31.3	And I'm Anna Maria Ser.
0:33.1	Let the Chisemay begin.
0:34.9	And the Chisme is piping hot.
0:37.2	Oh, my God. right out of the oven.
0:39.4	I'm so excited because Shakira has just released her 12th album.
0:45.4	I had to like do the math backwards on that because I didn't believe it.
0:59.0	This is her first in seven years, Felix. It's called Las Mujeres, Yano Yoran.
1:02.0	So safe to say, it's been highly anticipated, highly talked about, highly listened to already.
1:08.0	There's generally been a lot of positive reviews based on what I've seen poking
1:12.6	around the internet, which I don't know if everyone in this room, in this space, is feeling that
1:19.5	way. Just based on a lot of the tech, slacks, lengthy audios we've shared about the record
1:25.2	so far. So I brought the amazing, the fabulous, the glorious Isabel Gomes Armento on this week.
1:32.1	Reporting.
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