Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean in “Hips Don’t Lie” Music Video Clip
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Shakira Quotes: “My hips tell me where and when I should move. And my hips don’t lie - my hips tell me the truth.”
“Hips Don’t Lie” music video is a multi-cultural stew of dance rhythms from Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Rapped vocals from Wyclef Jean and Shakira’s familiar Spanish-accented rasp glide across the top. Wyclef Jean identifies a clear point of connection between the two artists expressing concern for both Colombian (Shakira’s ethnic heritage) and Haitian (Wyclef Jean’s ethnic heritage) refugees and CIA harassment. The politics of the song are no thicker than that, but it is an effective grounding in keeping with Shakira’s habit of mixing political and socio-cultural concerns with infectious Latin pop music.
If the song sounds familiar to some, it is a re-working of Wyclef Jean’s recording of “Dance Like This” with City High’s Claudette Ortiz on the Havana Nights soundtrack released in 2004. The original was catchy, but the Shakira version is memorable.
Add comment May 21st, 2006