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OFFICIAL - 'Can't Remember To Forget You' Reviews Thread
2010 seemed like a bit of a turning point for hip-swivelling truth-teller Shakira. Having memorably soundtracked that year's World Cup with Waka Waka (This Time For Africa), she then collaborated with rent-a-rapper Dizzee Rascal on Loca before working with musical apocalypse Pitbull on Get It Started (a No 64 smash in the UK). An Afrojack-produced dance album was rumoured before things went quiet, she had a baby and now, thankfully, she seems to have reverted back to the undervalued, guitar-tinged new wave pop of her last English-language album, She Wolf. So while that album's lead single was co-written by the bloke from indie one-hit wonders The Bravery (Sam Endicott), Can't Remember To Forget You - which, as you will probably notice, is a duet with Rihanna - has an equally indie-ish pedigree having been co-written by Kid Harpoon (Florence & The Machine, Miles Kane) and Swedish pop miserablist Erik Hassle. Opening with a low-slung, reggae-tinged verse that sounds a bit like the Police, the song soon morphs into a guitar-heavy, Kelly Clarkson-esque chorus that sounds as if it's been split into about four separate sections, each one catchier than the last. Lyrically, it's about how easy it is to forget how bad someone is for you when you still love them, with Shakira's still brilliantly odd-sounding voice wrapping itself around the lyric, "But when you look at me, the only memory, is us kissing in the moonlight".
—The Guardian
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Kinda now that it mentions it.
