Took me several listens to rank them. This is a very strong album and definitely up there, among her best.
1. You Don't Care About Me
2. Cut Me Deep
3. Can't Remember To Forget You
4. Spotlight
5. Chasing Shadows
6. Dare
7. Empire
8. Loca Por Ti
9 The One Thing
10. Spotlight
11. 23
12. Medicine
13. That Way
I found it extremely difficult to rank these because I LOVE about 8 or 9 of these pretty equally. This is probably her strongest English album. Vocals, melodies and production are all pretty flawless.
If I have to have a complain about this album is that many songs have very simplistic guitar riffs and sometimes it feels repetitive. I also think Dare Brazil sounds rushed, the added drums feel uninspired and it feels a little noisy. I also would have liked her to sing in Portuguese(or does she? Im not pretty sure lol)
I feel like if some songs had a more complex composition it would be even as good as Fijacion Oral.
So Shakira takes 2 of my least favorite genres(Country and Raggae) and makes an album full of them, yet I still love the album and its one of her strongest. Is there anything she can't do?
YDCAM should be 4th single.
Loca Por Ti should be a Latin American single.
Medicine should be a radio single only and it should be peformed on The Voice.
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