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She Wolf
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 15 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 42 votes
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Album Info
Label: Epic
Release Date: 23 November 2009
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Rock, Pop
Summary
The Colombian singer releases her third English-language album, which reunites her with Wyclef Jean, who appeared on their number one single "Hips Don't Lie."
Also By This Artist: Fijacion Oral Vol. 1 Oral Fixation Vol. 2
Also On The Web: Official Artist Site
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Entertainment Weekly
With only nine tracks, followed by three español translations and a handful of superfluous bonus tunes, She Wolf feels a bit thin. That quibble aside, this is some of the most unusually effective dance-floor dynamite you're likely to encounter all year.
Read Full Review >All Music Guide
This blend of cheerful weirdness and sick beats--often supplied by the Neptunes, delivering tough, sensual rhythms in a way they haven’t in a long time, but also John Hill and Wyclef Jean--is giddily addicting, a celebration of all the strange sensuality that comes out at night.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone
Shakira's trademark warble is gauche, but whether boasting about sex on 'Why Wait' or wailing on the guitar-propelled 'Mon Amour,' she's a charmer--a globe-straddling star you can cuddle up to.
Read Full Review >Q Magazine
Yet while these tracks might bring Nelly Furtado's Timbaland-fueled makeover to mind, there is more to She Wolf than glossy dance-pop. [Dec 2009, p. 124]
musicOMH.com
These are very much Shakira songs, not merely songs produced by The Neptunes.
Read Full Review >Observer Music Monthly
The music's Pharrell Williams-assisted dancefloor pop; the words entirely Shakira's. Preposterously brilliant.
Read Full Review >New Musical Express (NME)
We’re pleased to report that her third English-sung studio effort is as nutty as ever; combining Neptunes-esque beats with flamenco, post-punk riffs, synths, Arabian strings, gongs and disco.
Read Full Review >Spin
"I want us thinking outside the box," Shakira tells a lover on her third English-language studio disc. And musically, at least, she succeeds throughout the wildly eclectic She Wolf.
Read Full Review >Slant Magazine
Timbaland and Lil Wayne are brought in for second single 'Give It Up to Me,' a last-minute effort to insure that She Wolf will be more appealing to U.S. audiences, but the track is none of the participating parties' best moments, and it's unlikely to save a project that, like the loba herself, has a bit of an identity problem.
Read Full Review >Dot Music
Ultimately, the list of collaborators on She Wolf may be an impressive roll call, but perhaps Shakira would do better in listening to her own instincts than that of others.
Read Full Review >Billboard.com
The result is certainly more adventurous than anything from her peers, if a little forced.
Read Full Review >PopMatters
She Wolf splits down the middle pretty easily, half the tracks exuding a wry sexuality and a retro-rocking stylistic template while the other half dabble with already-passed production fads and remarkably incoherent metaphors.
Read Full Review >The New York Times
It’s so undercooked and overwritten--with wan wolf howls and lines about being treated like a coffee machine in an office--that it reaches a special class of fascinating-awful.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 8.1 (out of 10) based on 42 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Rosie gave it a0:
God! She’s terrible. The ghost of good music haunts her every night, that’s for sure. Have you ever heard her live? The girl can’t sing, she’s a fraud. She doesn't even know how to shake her hips, you could say that she's epileptic. And she’s not even pretty. I see some of the critics use the word “weird” to justify their good reviews. Well, I would like to say that “weird” is no synonym for “good”. There are good weird things, but this “She Wolf” (worst title ever) is full of unfinished songs that seem to be demos and songs that are way overproduced to make them sound ok. "She Flop" is the worst album of the decade.
Thauma T. gave it a3:
I've enjoyed Shakira's work in the past, but this album contains no more than 3 songs that are listenable with the rest sounding like a high school kid playing around with a drum machine after listening to their parent's disco collection. In a word - embarrassing.
Viernes R. gave it a6:
In fact should be called bitch not she wolf it's just that a lot of songs to dance and forget what are about, the songs are funny and goout at night but she is selling in it so evident with that electronic sounds that makes that goat mix duck voice sounds noise and so needed to be famous an be a hit on USA.
JJ F gave it a0:
I've never understood how she ever gained popularity aside from the obvious pretty face. Her voice is atrocious and sounds like she's gargling with motor oil. I can't understand anything she says and in all her videos she dances like an epileptic hooker. Much like the herp, you just can't get rid of her no matter how bad you want to.
Lulu L gave it a10:
This album is so original and real, it derserves 10! On She Wolf, Shakira doesn't think too much, she just goes for the gut, and seems to make a joke out of the whole thing, she realises it isn't about making yourself look cool, just matter! And that Shakira does, she matters.
Chris F gave it a10:
Wow amazing album. All the songs are perfect.
Larry H. gave it a10:
Shakira is great female, "She Wolf" is the best album that I ear in so much time... Every song, every word in her songs is a new world. Really Shakira is cool, and someday believe the future Pop's Queen. I like Shakira. So good... +10.
