Following Shakira's fansites, the colombian singer announced, today in Paris during her Sephora event, that her new single will be out in June!
Eventhough everything points out that "Truth or Dare" is the new single, no one can be sure. Shakira shot a video for it back in June of last year in Lisbon but since she got pregnant she postponed it.
Different news tell us different stories. It has been said that Shakira is very happy with the result of the album that was finished a year ago and she has no plans of redoing anything and some said she decided to, at least, cut "Truth Or Dare" video since she wasn't satisfied with the final result.
The colombian singer has also confirmed the new album will have a song dedicated to her new baby and that a new world tour is scheduled for 2014!
April, 8th
One of Shakira's biggest and more reliable websites, Shakira: Sale El Sol, states that some close person to Shakira has delivered some news about the upcoming era, here's a summary of what they said:
"Truth Or Dare" will be the new single. It will come out in late-May/early-June;
The new album is set to be released in the summer (July or August);
"Truth Or Dare" was produced by Shakira, Jay Singh and co-written by Raelene Arreguin, Jay Singh y John J. Conte Jr.;
No title has been announced for the spanish version;
Anthony Mandler directed the video shot in Lisbon;
The video has been ready for a while now, changes to the original version may happen though;
Shakira has put a lot of effort and money into this new video so she's probably sticking up with it;
Fernando Garibay, RedOne, The Runners, Max Martin, Dr. Luke , Afrojack, The Dream and Jay Singh are some of the confirmed producers;
Sia, Ester Dean and Ne-Yo wrote some material in;
"Boing per tu" is probably coming out in the deluxe edition of the album;
Every song has a very unique sound and her voice sounds different in some tunes;
Live Nation will promote her upcoming tour (Probably in 2014);
MASSIVE promotion coming in early-Summer (The Voice, Today, Tonight Show, SNL);
Shakira will be performing at the MTV Video Music Awards 2013.
Shakira's team posted this video in YouTube today. Following Shakira, after The Voice is done, she will go back to the studio. This new information kind of goes against what her fansites were saying before.[/B]
Truth or Dare sounds cool but not fresh. If she changes 1st singles that's cool either way. I think that the world was not ready for her English songs back when it supposed to be released. I think that now with The Voice she has more exposure and bigger chance to actually achieve success. Pregnancy was a miracle for her.
I hope it doesn't all sound dated by then This is the farthest Shaki has ever gone with a big variety of outside producers etc. So excited though! Shaki's new album, ARTPOP, possibly new No Doubt, all towards the end of summer/beginning of fall