Lastly, everything else will be played by barring the top three strings. This is going to make the next hammer-on (using your ring finger) much easier. Use your first finger on the 4th fret and middle finger on the 5th. By barring the 6th fret we conveniently placed to move it up two frets and barre the 8th fret for the next chord. Again, we can make it easier on ourselves by barring the 6th fret with our first finger, then using the ring finger to hit the 8th fret with a hammer-on. Use your first finger on the 2nd fret and your middle finger on the 3rd fret. You will notice that it’s nice and easy to get the next chord too.
#Shakira these hips don t lie free#
That’s going to leave your other two fingers free to hit the next two notes on the A string. The key is to prepare our fingers beforehand so there’s no confusion between changing notes.įor the opening two notes, use your middle finger on the 3rd fret of the G and your pinky on the 4th of the A string. We can slow it down and make it super laid back and just take our time with it. Cumbias are like the staple folkloric dances here.I would call this an intermediate piece to learn on the ukulele as there’s a lot of finger movement, however, if you are a beginner, don’t be scared off just yet. No fighting-world peace.Īs a Colombian with a Brother in Barranquilla the song hits harder lmfao. Artist who create catchy songs and perform in the Fifa World cup have the world in their hands. This is probably one of the most played songs all time all over the Planet. People dont realize how massive was the reach of this song initially and the world cup remix months later pushed this further worldwide. The way she dances and u can see the whole stadium is wow. I remember gettin so hyped watching that FIFA performance when i was a teen. The world cup 2006 remix by RedOne is everything. The Indian influenced Performance in the VMAS 2006 and the Arabic one from the Grammys are epic. Africa and Middle East the regions where eveything started yay. The voice of Shakira and Wycleaf are really strange-primal and that gives a special tone to the song. The video shoots in the video feel kinda iconic even if it was a really mid budget production. I think is pretty impressive how Shakira was able to rework a random song and give some life to Oral Fixation Vol 2 after the underperformance of the powerful Dont bother. This song was really huge and there were so many parodies in the earliest days of Youtube. What are your thoughts on the song and how it holds up 15 years later? Here is a sound on sound article that goes deep into the production and making of this song. It won best choreography at the MTV video music awards that year, where they also performed it. The video features bright and colorful outfits and seems to take place at a carnival. The music video was directed by Sophie Miller and most of the outfits and borrowed from Carnaval de Barranquilla (Shakira’s hometown). Hips Don’t Lie was the most successful song worldwide of 2006 and according to Roc Nation, it is the best selling single worldwide of the 21st Century. It spent 5 weeks at #1 in the UK in total in two separate runs, and broke the record for most weeks at number in a second run with 4, a record now tied with Gotye’s Somebody That I Used To Know. The reached number 1 for 2 weeks in June 2006, and had more than twice the number of points than the runner up song, becoming both Shakira’s and Wyclef Jean’s first solo #1 song in the US. They also recorded and released a Spanish version of the song, Será Será (Las Caderas No Mienten). The trumpets at the beginning are sampled from Amores Como El Nuestro and are a tribute to Jerry Rivera. Shakira and Jerry Duplessis then rewrote some of the lyrics and production, along with Wyclef. The song was Wyclef’s earlier song, Dance Like This, with Claudette Ortiz from Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights. Wyclef was originally asked to do a remix for La Tortura, but he refused stating that he already had the perfect song for her. Hips Don’t Lie was originally written by Wyclef Jean, Lauren Hill, and Pras for a Fugees reunion that never happened and was originally called Lips Don’t Lie, although their version was never finished.
It is also one of the highest streamed female songs of the 2000s, with over 730 million streams on Spotify.Īfter the first single, Don’t Bother, didn’t do as well as the label hoped, they reached out to Wyclef Jean to remake his song, Dance Like This, to add to the to reissue of Oral Fixation Vol. 2! It reached number 1 in 55 countries, including Shakira’s first and only #1 single in the United States and is one of the best selling songs of all time. This week 15 years ago, Hips Don’t Lie was released as the second single from Oral Fixation Vol.