hips don't lie (rkl mix)

remixed and additional production by rod layman / dmc

"Hips Don't Lie" is a Grammy Award-nominated Latin pop song performed by Colombian singer Shakira and Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean. The song samples Jean's 2004 song "Dance Like This" and takes much of the instrumentation from Jerry Rivera's "Amores Como El Nuestro"[1][2]. Shakira co-wrote everything but the chorus and produced the song. The song was released as the second single from Shakira's second English album Oral Fixation Vol. 2 in 2006. "Hips Don't Lie" became a global success, topping the charts in many countries. It became Shakira and Wyclef's first (and to date, only) number-one single in the U.S.. The song became one of the world's best-selling singles of all time and one of the hottest songs of summer 2006. In the UK, this was Wyclef's third number-one hit (after The Fugees' "Killing Me Softly" and "Ready Or Not") and Shakira's first. In many other European countries, it became Shakira's second number one, (following the massive success of "Whenever, Wherever"). It also became Shakira and Wyclef's most successful single ever, amassing nearly 10 million Media Traffic points. [3]

song information...

The song, a remake of "Dance Like This" (which Wyclef and Claudette Ortiz recorded for the Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights soundtrack in 2004 and was not released as a single), appears only on the special edition of Oral Fixation Vol. 2. The song's introduction is extracted from the song "Amores como el nuestro" by Jerry Rivera. The distinctive trumpet flourish was also previously heard on the 1997 gangster rap song "Déjà Vu (Uptown Baby)" by Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz.

"Hips Don't Lie" was reportedly commissioned by Sony Music to revive sales of Shakira's flagging album Oral Fixation Vol. 2, which had come out in late 2005 in time for the lucrative holiday-buying season. Vol. 2 was Shakira's second album of the year, directly following the Spanish-language Fijación Oral Vol. 1 by less than six months. (As part of a small trend in 2005, Shakira joined Sony labelmates System of a Down in releasing two back-to-back albums of new material in a single calendar year.) Ironically, in the crucial U.S. market, Vol. 1 – for which Sony likely had lower expectations given the album's late-spring release and non-English content – actually sold better than Vol. 2, Shakira's first English-language album since her breakthrough Laundry Service four years earlier. Despite its release in a slower sales period of the year, Vol. 1 had bigger first-week sales than Vol. 2 (157,000 copies vs. 128,000), charted higher (#4 – a rare ranking for a Spanish album – vs. #5) and produced a genuine hit single in the #23 hit "La Tortura" with Alejandro Sanz, while Vol. 2's leadoff single "Don't Bother" stalled just outside the Top 40. Vol. 2 was too important a project for Sony Music to accept its weak sales over the holidays, and the label quickly brought in Wyclef, an artist in the Sony stable, around the start of 2006 to remake his own song with Shakira and give the album a crucial radio hit – a tactic that proved a tremendous success: When Vol. 2 was re-released in March 2006 with "Hips Don't Lie" (plus an alternate version of "La Tortura"), the album shot up 92 spots on the Billboard 200, representing a one-week sales increase of 643%; as of October 2006, the album has sold more than 1.5 million copies in the United States, more than half of them the rerelease containing "Hips Don't Lie."

"Hips Don't Lie" debuted on the L.A.-based radio station KIIS-FM (on the Ryan Seacrest Morning Show) on February 14, 2006. Shakira and Wyclef Jean performed the song on the following TV shows: American Idol, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Live With Regis and Kelly, The Today Show and Total Request Live. The song can be heard in the EA Sports video game MVP 06 NCAA Baseball, the film soundtrack to Ice Age: The Meltdown, and on MySpace records.

This is what Shakira says about the song "Hips Don't Lie" on her official website:

A Spanish version entitled "Será, Será (Las Caderas No Mienten)" was also released. This version is sung in Spanish, as well as the rap. Shakira also sang another version of "Hips Don't Lie" (called "The Bamboo Version") at the closing ceremony of the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Berlin, Germany.

music video...

The music video was directed by British director Sophie Muller and filmed in Los Angeles, California, United States. While plotless, the video presents Shakira and Wyclef Jean enjoying themselves as they dance in an arena-like environment. The majority of the costumes and outfits featured in the video belong to the Carnaval de Barranquilla, some of which include the white dress Shakira dances in, and the colorful flags.

"Hips Don't Lie" has proved successful on LAUNCHcast's top-hundred most-watched videos of the week, where it has spent an impressive four months at number one. Yahoo! had fans submit videos of themselves dancing to the song, which were edited into a "fans only" version which has also proved to be one of the most popular videos on LAUNCH. The video for "Hips Don't Lie" ran in the #1 spot on iTunes (along with the single) for several weeks. Currently, it is the most-watched video of 2006, and has drawn close to two million streamed performances.The video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography on August 31, 2006 and the MTV Latin Award for Song Of The Year on October 19, 2006. The video also placed # 2 on VH1's "Top 40 Videos of 2006". it was nominated for viewer's choice award at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2005, but lost to Fall Out Boy's Dance Dance.

In the UK, the video to "Hips Don't Lie" had the honour of being the last ever item to be shown on Top of the Pops.

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hips don't lie

oral fixation vol. 2

laundry service

fijación oral vol. 1