Belated Appreciation For ‘She Wolf’ By Shakira

I don’t know why it took me so long to appreciate ‘She Wolf’ by Colombian pop sensation Shakira, but I’m well and truly obsessed with it now. In fact, it’s the first song she’s released since her days of singing in Spanish that I’ve actually enjoyed.

If somehow, like me, you managed to avoid hearing ‘She Wolf’ when it was originally released, I urge you to watch the video clip by clicking on the picture below. Sexually sensitive folks should brace themselves as Shakira is about to make love out of nothing at all, Air Supply style. Pelvic thrusts abound.

Here is a short list of my favourite moments in the song.

- That amazing jangly guitar riff that makes me dance like a disco dork.
- The use of the word ‘lycanthropy’
- The incredibly ridiculous bit in the verse where she says ‘I’m starting to feel just a little abused, like a coffee machine in an office’ – no one else in pop would have the balls/ESL charm to try and pull that one off.
- Disco string section!
- The lyric “having a very good time and behave very bad in the arms of a boy” because I think she delivers the line perfectly, and it also has ESL appeal.
- The hilariously half-hearted howl in the chorus. She sounds disinterested in her own song! I FIND THAT ENDEARING!

I’m trying to convert friends to the pro-She Wolf cause but I’m not getting very far (piped up one, not ten minutes ago, “that song gave me AIDS”) so I’m turning to you, discerning reader. Should I seek medical attention, or is Shakira’s She Wolf in fact one of the best pop songs of the last year?

Interesting She Wolf Fact – the song topped the charts in Slovenia!