Shakira's tenth record is self-titled and this was deliberately chosen. The Colombian singer chose to put her own name on the album because she rediscovered herself during the recording process and thought a lot about choices she had made since the release of from 2010. The self-reflection has resulted in a versatile record with both English - as Spanish songs. Of course, the sultry and much-discussed
… duet with the voluptuous Can't Remember To Forget You is present, but perhaps more striking is the collaboration with country singer , of which Medicine is the result. Shakira ignored the words of her husband Gerard Pique (footballer from Barcelona), who would rather see that she would no longer record duets with male colleagues. With Pique she had a son (Milan) in the run-up to this album, who was the inspiration for the emotional song The One Thing. (BvdV)more