20 years have passed since Shakira launched one of his greatest successes, “Hips Don’t Lie”, which we can hardly listen.
In a conversation with The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Colombian artist commented that she had to persuade her company to add the song to the album “Oral Fixation, Vol. 2“
The single is a danceable anthem that has become one of the classics in the discography of Shakira. “” I remember that my album was already distributed, and then this idea arose, and Wyclef And we met and started working in this song, “he told the presenter, Jimmy Fallon.
Then he shared a coincidence regarding the creation of the single: “And, do you know? The funniest thing is that I had a dream, a dream of the strangest about Wyclef Jean“, It started.
After waking her call her representative, who tells her that she wanted to work with her in this new project.
“I said: ‘No, no. It can’t be. Last night I dreamed of he’“, said. “Why would you dream of Wyclef? “, He wondered Shakira.
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The Colombian remembers that when she and the rapper began to perform “Hips Don’t lie ”, He thought: “I knew I had a success.”
Shakira’s negotiation with his label
The interpreter says she had so much faith in the song, that she contacted the director of Epic Records, Your label at that time. To whom he please asked to remove all copies from his album “Hips Don’t Lie” including.
“You have to believe me. You have to trust me. If you do, we have a success“He recalled to have told the director.” He did it, and we had to rebuild the albums. And that changed my story“He concluded Shakira.
