Shakira is birthday. Your study album Oral fixation vol. 1 celebrates the 20th anniversary of its premiere, since it saw the light on June 3, 2005. Behind the songs that make up the album hide A psychoanalyst meaning and A cover influenced by Freudas well as A very special baby For the Colombian.
Alejandro Sanz and Shakira premiere the video clip of ‘Besame’
Those of intuition, The torture Next to Alejandro Sanz … Shakira He composed for June 3, 2005 one of the most conceptual albums of his discography, Oral fixation vol. 1which would then follow the second part Oral Fixation vol. 2 November 28, 2005.
This 2025, coinciding with the beginning of the successful tourWomen no longer cry World Tourhis sixth album Oral fixation vol. 1 It is two decades in the market. This anniversary brings unknowns in the present: Who is the baby who holds Shakira on the cover and what does his title mean?
The baby and the meaning of ‘oral fixation vol. 1 ‘
On the cover of Oral fixation vol. 1Shakira appears holding a baby who grabs her hair. That creature is Luciana, her cousin sister’s daughter. For this visual representation, the singer was inspired by a psychoanalyst theory Sigmund Freudfor which babies would begin to discover the world through the mouth during the oral phase of psychosexual development.
“I have always felt that I have been a very oral person. It is my greatest source of pleasure, “Shakira explained in an interview collected by The New York Times. “From a psychoanalytic point of viewwe begin to discover the world through the mouth in the first stage of our lives, at birth. “
As for both covers, the Colombian said that the first “is more Freudiana, and the second resembles Jung more, because Eve (The first woman) is a universal archetype. “” I tried to maintain unity between both covers and chose to use Renaissance iconography. The mother and the child and the original sin are recurring concepts of the Renaissance, and sought the historical character“He added.
Sensuality, a pillar for Shakira
At the beginning of the 21st century, Shakira was already a pop icon internationally. She claimed the sensuality of art: “Music should be sensual. Not necessarily sexual. Sensual is all that refers to the delight of the senses. And that is what artists do: stimulate the senses in all possible ways. I don’t think I have to hang a sign that says ‘hey, I’m sexy’ and then take it off and say: ‘Hey, now I’m serious.’ I can fluctuate and oscillate from one side to another when my instinct dictates it to me, “he defended.
