The word of the day is anticlimactic.

I feel like every time I see a new picture of this woman my jaw hits the floor.

I Love Shakira and since her first apperance here in Brazil, when she was yet a girl of barefeet i knew that she wold be a mega star of the entertaiment!

Go Shakira, GO!

Do you hate money or something?

Tokio Hotel, bottom line.

love this girl, she’s very talented and hot

Ok…in all seriousness if this lady looked like Kelly Osbourne she would not be on the cover. Her music is pretty bad. She Wolf? More like She craps 4 times a day.
Move on…

Desde que a Shakira apareceu pela primeira vez aqui no Brasil, Quando ela ainda era a garota dos Pés Descalços, eu sabia que ela seria uma MEGA estrela do mundo do entretenimento!

Shakira ja tem o mundo a seus pés!

Shakira is UNIC!

If her body is smart enough to ask her to reproduce, why doesn’t it ask her to stop singing like Pee-Wee Herman?

hi.. shakira… you’re great…
keep aiming success… you can make it, girl… you’re the best…

When was the last time this girl did anything!! The Dead Weather would have been great. Paramour would have been great. TheM Crooked Vulchures!! Even Kristen Stuart would have been better than this!!!

yes,she can…. she gonna be more than madona

@Rockstar70:

Her new album comes out next month (or was due this month. I dunno). Anyway, she’s got shit going on now.

Damn she’s hot! ^_^!

She’s UNIQUE!!!

no one comes close to her talent and magic.

Love u Shakira Shakira

I love watching Shakira on TV…. with the mute bitton on.

I hate chakira !!!

She wolf Flop

She Wolf FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP…..

Ela está muito linda!

Not too long ago, AC/DC on the cover, this issue has muthafukin’ Shakira for God’s sake!! RS you thrive in losing your readers respect.

Shakira’s a very talented and smart woman! Looking forward to this issue

Damn It, its not Muse.

no mames shakira yo era un fan tuyo pero desde k viste k solo tu voz no podia vender como lo hacia britney kitandose la ropa aunk no cantara.. Tu Tamnbien dijiste a la chingada con la voz yo vender y hasta de Rubia platinada te hiciste..y hoy a enseñar piel…d intelectual pasaste a una che wuerita huecas del cerebro.. Pero vendes y hay si mis respetos ..pensaste con el estomago jojojo

no is ugly

……at least it’s not Adam Lambert

…she sings awful people honestly don’t know anything about music. She may not be rock, but she has one of the top female voices in pop today.

Britney fans = SHIT

That you guys have Shakira on your cover and not Joel Plaskett only further documents how out of touch you are. When will your advertisers learn that no one reads this magazine anymore?

SHE SHAKIRA HAS CONQUERED THE WORLD!!!! SHE IS A UNIQUE AND AMAZING ARTIST!!!!

o well…

at least she’s hot

I can’t get over how much I like this girl. She’s very talented. I have no doubt you will conquered the world.

bellisima!!!

I like Shakira But ADAM LAMBERT will conquer the world…you will see!

I love her, great cover.

She’s lovely and can dance. But she can’t sing worth a damn. It’s sad to see Rollimg Stone becoming another “Seventeen” or teeny-bopper fan-zine.

I am Shakira’s male slave. Shakira and I will have sex totally in the nude on purpose in private only with Shakira’s permission. To see Shakira totally in the nude on purpose is my all-time #1 favorite way to see Shakira. I really really am madly deeply continuoulsly passionately and romanticly in love with Shakira. I really really love enjoy crave honor cherish respect and obey all of Shakira from head to toe. I really really do care about Shakira. I really really am concerned about Shakira. Someday Shakira and I will meet each other on purpose. I am a true fan of Shakira. I also am a huge fan of Shakira. Shakira is my babe,my honey,my love,my boss and my future wife. And I will get the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine with the sexy picture of Shakira on the front cover of it in my mailbox soon.

oh she’s preatty but in this photo she looks like Madonna on her Ray of Light video

It’s a shame she’s concentrating on “becoming a true superstar in the U.S.” instead of becoming the best musician she can be. Another manufactured, semi-talented wannabe. Sigh, where are all the real artists?

Shakira is hot, but she stinks as a singer and musician

Re: Shakira’s male slave

Shakira… RUN!

Shakira is amazing, and I can see from the video that photoshoot will be HUGE. Good luck Shaki, ur the best <3

SHE IS PERFECT!!!

Im colombian descendant and I can tell this sell-out wannabe is a disgrace for colombian people. She represents the semi talented girl that sold her soul (and probably her body too) to the corporative media.

yes of course, she can conquer the world, she is amazing, she has a voice, style, composer, she had everything

she is nice is the better single in the world

Good luck Shaki, ur the best <3

She is a worthy ambassador for her country Colombia. With his music helps thousands of poor children can study and build a better future

She is an exceptional woman of great goals. What has been achieved thanks to their effort and love what you do, which is reflected in the love for his foundation Pies Descalzos, from where she helps thousands of Colombian children who have no economic opportunity to succeed.

She’s playing probably on everything and writing such good lyrics. Each song and album in other style. Looks like a goddess and she dances like that. Helps kids in Colombia. What i can say more…

I just can’t get you out of my head
Girl your lovin’ is all I think about
I just can’t get you out of my head
Girl it’s more than I dare to think about

She’s got the kind of look
That defies gravity
She’s the greatest cook
And she’s fat free

She’s been to private school
And she speaks perfect French
She’s got the perfect friends
Oh isn’t she cool?

She practices Tai Chi
She’d never lose her nerve
She’s more than you deserve
She’s just far better than me

‘Cause you know that baby I
I’m your biggest fan,
I’ll follow you until you love me
Papa, Paparazzi
Baby, there’s no other superstar,
you know that I’ll be
Your Papa, Paparazzi

Promise I’ll be kind
But I won’t stop until that girl is mine
Baby, you’ll be famous, chase you down until you love me
Papa, Paparazzi

She’s the best

I like Shakira THE ROCKER, not Shakira THE POP STAR. What happened? She dyed her hair blonde and ditched her guitar for cut-out leotards and lame dance moves. She totally sold out. I would’ve been more impressed if she conquered the English world without turning herself into the typical blonde, cookie-cutter pop star. And her music keeps getting worse. “She-Wolf”? Really? I’m disappointed. It’s always sad to see an artist you like for being unique turn into something not unique in exchange for fame money.

woowwwwwwwwwwwwww shakira a love her she is so good. i love her new look she always look fresh…….. she is not scare to try new thing’s

i love shakira….,,,,,,,

Vamos nena eres la no.1 PERO POR FAVOR QUITATE LA ESTUPIDA IDEA DE TENER UN BB ES ABSSURDO SI EN VERDAD APRECIAS A TU PUBLICO Y TU CARRERA NO LO AGAS:
PD: SHAKI ERES SEXY, SEXY.

To answer the question, ‘Can Shakira Conquer the World’, nah, her music is too ethnic, it doesn’t cross enough boundaries. But yea, I’m a Shakira fan. Her multitalents make her a great entertainer, but her perspective is too narrow to grab the whole world’s attention.

Because Rolling Stone posed this question, I will give her music just a little bit more attention.

But at this point, my question in return is: Why does Rolling Stone feel the need to pose such a ridiculous question? Our society goes through pop stars like floss. The idea of “conquering the world” just doesn’t seem interesting to me anymore – the same basic question has been posed about Kings of Leon, Lil Wayne, probably Muse at one point in time. What does it mean? Is it a testament to musical quality or to hype? I’m not saying any of these artists are good or bad…I don’t think that’s the question anymore. Why is Rolling Stone in the game of unwarranted hype? All I know about Shakira lately is that everone loves “She Wolf” because she crawls around like a stripper in the video. That’s not musical talent. That’s appealing to base male sexual fantasy.

What does that have to do with music? I’m tired of this crap. Whether Shakira is talented or not, it seems all about “Can Shakira turn enough men on that the world will fantasize about sleeping wither her?”

Put that question on the magazine’s cover.

And…I’m sorry. A magazine cover with that temptress breast-exposure? Maybe the least original and least scandalous concept. I wish Rolling Stone would grow up again. How many of the recent covers have had some obscene pose of a woman? I’m not a prude, but I’m reading the magazine for music, not for a boner. My dad, a Deadhead and unmatchable music fan, has resorted to just tearing the covers off. How depressing of a fall when Rolling Stone used to be famed for their cover shots and for their photographs throughout the magazine? Bring back the class.

u’re such a gr8 singer luv ya you’re not like lady CACA or Pigney spears u’re a trully artist!!

shakira is a greats singers in this time. really true talent.

She´s perfect. she´s unique, She´s totally beautiful of the word! She´s the Best! Shakira: My pride!!!!!

I LOVE SHAKIRA SHAKIRA OHHH YEAH MY SHE WOLF AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Who cares?

SHE IS UNIQUE IS BEST IS SEXY IS GENIUS

I see all the negative comments on here and I just laugh. Shakira deserves to be on the cover of this magazine way more than some other people. (Adam Lambert, Paramore, come one). Shakira has made a good name for herself. She is not a SELL OUT, she is a very very smart woman. Her music reflects current music. She is innovative. She Wolf may not be the best song, but the album is great. I can assure all of you that you will hear a lot more about her in the months to come.

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Conquer he world??????????? ya still ask that question? She already conquer the world along time ago, or who sang on the world cup 4 years ago???? Yeah, maybe Britney or gaga or some of this blondies are bigger and have better music – but do they help their people??? Shakira has a program called piez descalzos in Colombia where they build schools for poor kids, wich most of them don’t have parents and she provides them with food and a education. Truthfully the question should be, Can Shakira compete with britney or gaga? The answer is yes, and who cares if shewolf is a bad record she’s hot, talented, and helps her people.

Please just make a TEEN ROLLING STONE for stories like this. Dead Weather? Them Crooked Vultures? The Heavy?

shakira es lo maximo del pop por el momento supera britney,beyonce y hasta llega a superar al reina del pop madona…es una mujer muy inteligente dia a dia evoluciona para mejorar….y lo ha logrado por que en estados umidos como el mundo es una super estrella……lo siento pero shakira esta en la cuspide de su carrera no hay nada que hacer ni tiene artista alguno que le compita….

Hope this interview reveals information that fans and people still don’t know

I’m buying this one.
have to LOVE SHAKIRA!

Shakira, you keep surprising us. Your eclectic music knows no boundaries and now you gives us this brilliant album, mixed with sounds from all over the globe, proving, one more time, that you are the greatest musician of this time.

She wolf the album is nothing like I´ve ever heard before. Really hope you all get a copy and fall in love with this woman.

The best album in 2009.

She is hot, However,her noizemusic is horrible.

ok rock star 70 can you honestly say that, The Dead Weather,Paramour,
TheM Crooked Vulchures,Kristen Stuart ever did anything for the kids? shakira has her own foundation where she builds school and feed the homeless childern. all those people you mentioned are all in it for themselvs
do your research before you try putting someone down
someone better than all those people put together

hpta SHAKIRA es la mejor ke viva colombia nojoda

SHAKIRA IS THE BEST! I LOVE HER! BRAZIL LOVE HER!

Shakira is the best ever no matter what anyone says! i have seen her live and she is incredible! she is also a great human with a big heart! Better than any other artist. Shakira simply the best =)

SHAKIRA RULES!
YES, SHE WILL CONQUER THE WORLD AGAIN . SHE HAS A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE CAUSE SHE COMBINES DIFFERENT SOUNDS.SHE ES A GREAT ARTIST, SINGER, PRODUCER AND THE MSOT IMPORTANT A GREAT HUMAN BEING.
WHILE OTHER ONLY THINK ABOUT FASHION, PARTIES,DRUGS AND ALCOHOL SHE HELPS CHILDREN AND STUDY HISTORY AT UCLA,PRODUCES HER MUSIC AND COLLABORATE WITH OTHER SINGERS.
STOP SAYING STUPID THINGS ABOUT SHAKIRA. SHE EVOLVED AND IF SOME OF YOU CAN`T DEAL WITH IT, LOOK FOR ANOTHER SINGER.
HER HAIR HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HER TALENT OR OPINIONS. MOST OF THE ARTISTS CHANGE THE COLOR OF THEIR HAIR AND ONLY SHAK IS QUESTIONED ABOUT IT.

Shakira es colombia.
en barranquilla se baila asi!
si

She Flop… boobs>talent?

I love Shakira and really love your music =)

Her new cd [She wolf] is great!!!

Me encanta sus temas…ella és muy hermosa

shakira love you. and mexico love you too!!!

Okay chill out ANA, Shakira is a great artist and human being, but she’s not the only one in her league. There are many other female artists that we consider great, but when you say, ‘Conquer the World’, I’m thinking something like the female version of ELVIS.

shakira you are the best of course you must conquer the world ..come to japan please!!!! we love you auuuuuuuu

Shakira your awesome and you’ll look great in the pic! Your a role model for the latinos!

I Love Shakira!!!

I LOVE SHAKIRA. BIG KISS.BOSITO

Shakira is talented (none without talent can sell over 50 millions records), she has a voice completely different form anyone else, she is considered one of the most talented alive dancers, she has a foundation to help young children in Colombia, she can play rock, ethnic, arab, pop, reggae, reggaeton, salsa, cumbia, bachata, boleros,dance and now electronic and 70’s music… What more do you want? she’s great!!! she can do everything! Go shaki! And don’t listen who don’t appreciate you… they don’t understand anything about music!!
YOU ARE THE MUSIC!!!

No es mas q una apatria!!!
Se le olvido el himno nacional.. q verguenza…

Terrible que no pueda hacer ni una sola cancion en Español, para que toda la gente que la apoyo de su pais se pueda identificar con su musica.

It´s Shaky or Chucky, shes overrated,bad songs, bad lyrics, and the music stinks too, she´s just hot, but average in Colombia or latin america.

Um…who is Shakira?

When I first heard Shakira’s music she was only singing in Spanish and she was compared to the Latin version of Alanis Morrissette. I wish she could bring some of that sound and feeling into her english music.

She is a commercial product of popular culture…

Francisco | 10/29/2009, 9:34 am EST
“No es mas q una apatria!!!
Se le olvido el himno nacional.. q verguenza…”

NO GUEBA, FUE UNA FALLA DE SONIDO, MIRA EL VIDEO BIEN Y TE DARÁS CUENTA QUE ELLA SIGUIÓ CANTANDO MIENTRAS SE FUE EL SONIDO. APATRIA SHAKIRA? QUE BLASFEMIA MAS GRANDE, POR LO MENOS ELLA INVIERTE SIN ANIMO DE LUCRO EN COLOMBIA, PERO TU QUE HACES POR COLONBIA, GRAN HUEVÓN.

CUT IT OUT! You have no right to say she CANNOT sing: SHE HAS AN MTV UNPLUGGED!!!
U-n-p-l-u-g-g-ed-

There is plenty of free porn on the internet, can exposed breasts really sell magazines anymore? Shakira is a marginal talent, Rolling Stone exalts in marginal talent because the world at large is infatuated with marginal talent. I won’t deride Rolling Stone, they are in touch with the zeitgeist, and the zeitgeist craves vacuous stupidity. Your hips don’t like, neither does my gag reflex. I’m exited to see which airbrushed wonder makes it on your cover next. Matt Taibbi is the only reason I read your magazine anymore. Just wait until 17 offers him a better deal!

It is going to be my first Rolling Stone magazine…so worthy

LOS BOGOTANOS SON FETIDOS RATEROS ,SECUESTRADORES DELINCUENTES DE LO PEOR QUE HAY EN COLOMBIA POR FAVOR NO VAYAN A ESA VALURDA CAPITAL , SON RECOCHINOS MALDITOS BOGOTANOS MUERAN ESCORIA DE COLOMBIA , VIVA SHAKIRA LO UNICO BUENO DE ESA MIERDA LLMADA COLOMBIA

por favor, ahora nos estamos alejando del argumento principal!!!

Shakira la mas grande, la unica hispana exitoa en Brasil, que ha llegado al No 1 en billboard hot 100, No 1 en las listas britancas, y de ahi para abajo. el planeta le quedo pequeño. lo demas es cuento, o mejor dicho lo demas son aullidos veredales, jejejeje.
o mejor dicho

Shakira, gracias por enseñarnos que el mundo es un poquito mas grande que el altiplano cundiboyasense. por sacudirnos de la mentalidad veredal conflictiva que no nos deja progresar.

shitkira is suck!!! shitkira = Beyoncé

SHAKIRA PARA QUE VAS A ESE MALDITO PAIS LLAMADO COLOMBIA , DEJALOS MORIR SOS FETIDOS IGUAL QUIE LOS BOGOTANOS FETIDOS Y DELINCUENTES
VIVA SHAKIRA LOI UNICO QUE AMAMOS DE COLOMBIA

fuck y’all haters out there eat!!
Shakira is # 1 No Doubt About U Go Babygirl!!

I’m amazed at some of the jealousy here! She is one of the most successful women in the music industry. She has sold out arenas all over the world, and gives much of her time to charity. Shakira is certainly worthy of a Rolling Stone cover!

Shakira is very smart IQ 150, she is my hero. I love you…

“My body feels like it is asking to reproduce,” Man this is hilarious .. stopped reading there … no dice

Shakira, la neta que chido que cambiaste al género “electropop”, qué es lo que está pegando muchísimo en todos los países del mundo entero, y ya de por sí con tu maravillosa voz este disco de “She Wolf”, la neta (y aunque a muchos les duela) es el MEJOR Y MAS PERRONSISIMO DISCO POP del año 2009!!! SALUDOS!!

SHAKIRA!!!!!! You are beautiful within and without !!!!
And I hope you make a Rock En Espanol very soon!!! Arriba el Rock!!!!!!!! Amor y Paz!!!

Hi Shakira! I just want to say your a no talent soft porn star. To think that even you can now get on the cover of rolling stone is just sad. Conquer the World? Really? Is this what popular music has gone down to. sigh….

oh wow major coincidence! my body just was telling me the other day it wanted me to reproduce with shakira. Seeing as that would be impossible I had to make do with some junk mail and vaseline…..

SHAKIRA IS A BORDER-TALENTED??? Someone who sold over 50 millions records??? Are we going crazy????
She’s incredibly talented! She has lots and lots of things to say, and she says them in her particular and original way! Maybe you don’t like her music. It can be so, the world is beautiful because it’s so various. But please, don’t be heretic by saying Shakira has got no talent!

Proud to be COLOMBIAN…!!! PROUD TO BE YOUR FAN…!!!
PROUD OF ALL YOUR EFFORTS TO HELP CHILDREN…..!!!!
GOD BLESS YOU, You are an ANGEL..!!

“She is one of the most successful women in the music industry. She has sold out arenas all over the world, and gives much of her time to charity. Shakira is certainly worthy of a Rolling Stone cover!”

Like I said, people embrace mediocrity and it does not surprise me that she sells out arenas, there are legions of people searching for their missing chromosomes who happen to converge at said arenas. Everyone has lots of things to say, everyone says them in their own way, who cares! Here voice is an annoying bellow with no dynamism, her music is a boring fusion of pop and pop rock with the requisite ethnic spin, but none of the elements are done well or in an original way. She is a mediocre talent, but in a world where American Idol is the barometer of talent mediocre is enough. You couldn’t go to one black church in America without finding at least two women who could sing better than her. All of you have bought you bubblegum, rot your teeth and enjoy!

te amooooooooooo sos hermosa bombon!!!!

Que pena con los Colombianos que hablan mal de Colombia nuestro pais, mas de uno quisiera pertenecer a este nuestro gran pais, soy barranquillera como el carnaval y por supuesto como Shakira me siento feliz y a mucho honor lo digo y lo proclamo, sobre todo ahora que estoy lejos de mi tierra, Shakira gracias por hacer patria lejos de ella y hacernos sentir orgullosos por tu musica y tus obras, pasense por urbanizacion La Playa y conozcan el mega colegio que creo, fundo y mantiene Shakira gracias a su labor. “QUE VIVA COLOMBIA”

When exactly can we buy this issue in the store?

She looks like she’s got bad coffee breath.

Oh my sweet Jesus…thank you RS!

WOW! where did she get those awesome hats and headdresses? I have to have them. If anyone knows, holler at me.
Shaki is da bomb and always will be.
SHAKIRA FOREVER!

Yeah, she’s very cool. I know her since i was 13 year old, now I’m 21. I like the way she dance and the way she sings………….

Thank you for having Shakira on the cover. She’s amazing! There’s always going be haters. You can’t satisfy everyone. “She sucks”, but yet she’s sold over 50 million albums??

Can’t wait for new album to hit stores in the USA.

I`M FROM MEXICO CITY, SHE IS BEATIFUL SHE IS BEAUTIFUL AND TALENT AND THESE PHOTOS ARE AMAZING

Love her on the cover… But I wanted the cover to be more enterteined!!! Thanks though!

shakiraesla mejor este cover es espectacularno puedo esperar a obtenerlo a quien crea que shakira no canta bienynose cuantascosas mas que se actualisen porque saben que la musiquita deustedes probablemente no es nada comparado alo de ella yno seanembidiosos porque ellaes muy buena y ustedes anque no lo admitan quisieran teneruna voz como la de ella

es lamejor es bella ycanta como los angeles

i was lying about what i said earlier she sounds great

im sorry for saying thatshakirai geton my knees and regret it your the best

sorry i crap on my own self 4 times a day im a b i t c h just don’t want to admit it im bipolar sorry shakira you sound wonderful and i sound like a dog

dont hate people appreciate that she looks better than yall

swag haters suck some d i c k s

i mistanken shedont have bad breath mine just smells like doo doo d h i t

u can buy it november the 23 i cant wait till it comes out im bi polar sorry shakira love u fore ever

AHTENIA Q SER MI COMPATRIOTA LA MAS GRNDE DEL MUNDO . SHAKIRA ES MA JOR Y LA UNICA LATINA FAMOSA EN EL MUNDO SU MUSICA , SUS LETRAS Y SU SER LA HAN LLEVADO AL EXITO .

ERES LA MEJOR MAMASOTA TE ADORA

my mistake fuck me feed the people in this world they diserve it

shakira rocks es la mas bella

shes won lots of grammys is thebestsingerintheworld

some of of yall need to stop being haters just because your a total fluke doesn’t make her one she deserves to beo0n the cover and she is beautiful and talented and helps people and children yall need to realize who she is and open yall ears and for some of yalls info she kept singing when the sound was off on purpose and
in spanish ustedes son muy tontos por

some of of yall need to stop being haters just because your a total fluke doesn’t make her one she deserves to beo0n the cover and she is beautiful and talented and helps people and children yall need to realize who she is and open yall ears and for some of yalls info she kept singing when the sound was off on purpose and
in spanish ustedes son muy tontos por exito nacional actualisenses solo porque ustedes son fracasados no qiuere decir que ella lo sea son embidiosos porque ella ers bien talentosa y bella y se merece estar en esa revista y por si no lo sasbian a ella no le gusta demostrar myuchjo y le tomo un piocio para enseñar sus piernas y ella alluda a los niños y a la gente en su pais te amoshakira no le pongas atencion a estos embidiosos sigue siendo una reinaque todos lo saben y mucho a moir luz paz y buena vibra seguire comprando tus discos y productos eres sin duda una reina y la mejor del mundo te quiero nunca pongas en duda tu talento belleza y tu publico porque siempre vamos a estar alli y adenlate con tus sueños que siempre te vamos a appollar tienes una voz maravillosa y angelical te amare siempre

I’m starting to think that my IQ is equal to the aggregate IQ of all Shakira supporters. Somehow that makes me feel better. Though it also means that Naomi Klein’s article will probably be met with a great deal of consternated grunting and possible smearing/tossing of feces. Naomi, on behalf of those of us who will read you article on a bench in a bookstore as opposed to buying the magazine, I apologize for the evacuative affect your contribution might have on the frustrated masses who stumbled upon it while looking for airbrushed photos of Shakira for onanistic purposes. One hopes the amount of methane released during said mass evacuation won’t add an ironic dimension to your article on Global Warming. Thank you and good night.

Im really worried about the super star thing… What about the soul of music?… Do you want to be the next crazy Britney?..

seriously…she is talented when singing in her native language

so english haters stop hating

Her last album flopped with her “own” music so she bought a song by Wyclef to save her. Now she relied on others to write all the music and she’s still flopping. Time to retire!

Yes shakira can conquer the world!
big kiss fron brazil!

i actually took the time to read every single comment on here, which is sad,but i am procrastinating. I have loved shakira since i was 6 years old and her music makes me happy period.however i understand that in life people change, sometimes for the better,the problem is i don’t know if this change by shakira is for the better. if she really is doing this to explore her art form further so be it, but if she was coaxed into doing this by her record company then i will say this as a die hard fan NO! she would sell even more records if she just went back to her roots, mainly her truly first 2 albums(pies descalzos, donde estan los ladrones). it is possible perhaps that she is just doing it to gain more revenue and in turn she can donate more to worldly causes, she is after all a very intelligent person. either way everyone knows and accepts the fact that she will finally take some time off and focus on her personal life. after that i feel that i should voice the opinion of your loyal fans and try to go back to your roots at least lyric wise, this wish now forming from a 16 year old girl who adores you.

I think Shakira WAS a great artist in the beginnig of her career, but lately it has been crap after crap after crap! Her latest disgrace…”give it up to me” featuring lil wayne. Just when I thought she couldnt produce a worse song than “hips don’t lie” she proved me wrong, really?? She is now singing with a low life drugged, gangster, rapper lil wayne??? Shame on Shakira for giving into fame and not staying true to her music and soul, but I guess the shine of money can change anyone right? like she said in one of her songs “It’s all right if the planet splits in three, CAUSE I’LL KEEP SELLING RECORDS…”

shit

“yes We can” Conquer the world shakira

SUPER, SEXY – SHAKIRA

I don’t hate Shakira by any means but I couldn’t even make it halfway through this article. I understand she has a new album coming out but do not feel the story behind it is cover worthy. It would have been better as a feature or something like the excellent Pink article a few issues back. But I digress.

Good luck Shaki

Horrible coffee breath!

Good for her, it’s beautifull, y que viva colombia

Are you guys kidding? This woman can´t sing even if her life depended on it. Her songs and lyrics are drab, anachronistic, soul less, commercial garbage. She ripped off Alanis in her early days and she’s done the same with Coldplay and countless other artists recently. RS get your heads out of your asses and put deserving people on your cover…

Shakira certainly has conquered the world. She’s actually duped whoever is a fan. Same overrated belly dancing, fan blown hair, with glazed eyes and voice thats more annoying than an alarm clock.
Rollingstone should put up Miley Cirus on the cover since you don’t cover real musicians anymore.

Shakira is a very talented artist. It isn’t the first time she has been on the cover of Rolling Stone. Okay she has changed a bit but what is wrong with change. Credit to her for the difference she has made in peoples lives. I hope Shakira comes to New Zealand. As for the people putting Shakira down what’s your point. No need to insult others.

I read the entire piece in this issue. It was hilarious, it was like a “Spinal Tap” version of the life of a diva.
From the longing look at the ocean from the car and how she has been so busy she was not able to enjoy the beach to the descriptives of her getting into her own music like a possessed woman. It was hilarious. The whole docu drama piece of the “we don’t have a hit, we need a hit” with her rep from Epic, so they stop the date when the CD is going to drop to get a song working with a rapper on the CD. Kudos to the writer this was very visual expose with the feel of a Saturday Night Live skit meets Monty Python’s “Meet The Rutles”. You would think with all the great pictures at Compass she would be able to do her own “Back in Black”. LOL. I like Shakira, I admire her tenacity, but with sampling tidbits of music from deepest Columbia for her next album, it’s like Peter Gabriel meet Britney Spears. Maybe if she wants to make something real instead of “She Wolf” with the overgrown vagina representation she needs to do what Sheryl Crowe did and sit down with some real writers that she can trust for real advice, not suits with blackberries, and meet every Tuesday night over coffee with guitars and notebooks and learn what it means to write quality music from the very root of what you are about. When Sheryl Crowe came out from that experience she was ready for a long career with well established roots rather than just Michael Jackson’s back up singer. I can watch Shakira all day, it would be great if her music was as great as her presentation. Think Elvis “Suspicious Minds”, presentaiton plus the ability to make people feel like the song “is” your life and they can connect to that.

Shakira isn’t that great…a few songs here and there but nothing major…who should have been on the cover?????? try a band/artist with actual talent… *sigh* music is just on a downward spiral.

i love u shaki
es lo mejor talento que tiene COLOMBIA. eres un orgullo para nosotros los latinoamericanos y especialmente nosotros los colombianos.

is the best talent he has COLOMBIA. you are a pride for us
Latin America and especially we Colombians.

I am reading these comments and I am thinking seriously? Rolling Stone advertises itself as a “Popular Music” magazine. And guess what?…THIS IS POPULAR MUSIC NOW! Why is this so hard to understand! Pop songs constantly top charts. Despite whatever you may believe about the merits of pop music, it is the top dog right now. If you do not like it, do not get it. Shakira IS a good artist, she does have a unique voice and wicked dance moves. Just because you do not like the music does not mean that it is bad. (I do not like Taylor Swift, yet I recognize she is a good artist.) I think if some of you took the time to go through her entire collection you might be surprised with the breadth of genres there. Times change, roll with it.

go on shakira u can really make it!! woauhhh

gone are the days of truly talented people gracing the cover of a rolling stone mag. we are now in the age of image over talent and not talent build with an image.

Wow shakira is soooo pretty, Rolling stone.. Come back to mexico…!!!

to “fan” according to what you are saying “pop” music is the gauge for Rolling Stone, and this is where it is at, I don’t think Rolling Stone would have had a pop artist like Britney or Miley or Shakira back in the day, that would have been on Tiger Beat or somehting. Rolling Stone was about the music culture not pop culture. You wouldn’t have movie like “Almost Famous” wihtout those days. You would have had The Hudson Brothers or Bobby Sherman tlaking about their lates endoresment deal with Marshall. Rolling Stone would be irrelevant without its legacy and perceived value to music culture.

I don’t care what anyone says. Shakira keeps getting more attractive every time I see her.

Shakira SUCKS! She appeared on SNL recently and both tunes SUCKED. Her voice SUCKED. She just gyrated her hips and body and posed for the camera. She’s all image and no talent. Just like in the Mexican/Spanish Soap Operas my mother watches. Stupid waste of space. I guess any woman baring her belly and Tig Bitties for the camera is called “talent” these days. Shakira SUCKS.

Shakira is just apart of the decaying fad of hip hop and R&B

I have no idea who she is but I sure like those titties she’s displaying on the cover of your teen music magazine

After carefully listening to the whole record on youtube I must say its a good record and I plan on buying it…those that don’t like it or her should just stay away and save your nasty comments for a better day;-)

Until now I have not been moved enough to buy any of her stuff as she typically has a few good songs and then the rest are shite but this time with the help of timbaland its quite a great record!! Its not rock enough but quite enjoy a good pop record that has that slight rock edge to it plus with other inspirations its a fantastic record!! So, I say if you like catchy tunes, with nice romantic lyrics and such then this record is for you!!!

I have heard Shakira since she was around twelve years old and sang the beautiful “Magia” song, everybody knew she was going to be a super star. Shakira has already conquer the world and will continue in the same path unless she stop singing. Shakira can be heard in clubs in USA, Canada, SouthAmerica, Sweden, France, China, India, Australia… all over the world our little colombian Shakira is greatly known by common people.

Best greetings from Bucaramanga, Colombia.

Her ass conquered my personal world about 7 years ago

Oh yeah, shakira it’s beautiful, gorgeous woman and i’m always love your face,lips,hips and a**,but she’s not only this, she’s more than this, an excellent songwriter,dancer and singer, and asking the cuestion of the rolling stone, yes she can she’s the picture of a really beauty colombian queen
Bucaros Rules!

I have never got this whole thing. Sure she’s sexy (so are a LOT of vocalists) but the voice is nowhere and sounds like a sheep with digestion problem. The fact that Tom Cruise is a big fan speaks volumes.
RC NY

It’s very plain and simple. If you don’t like her music then don’t listen to it.

L.A. loves Shakira!!!

The number of people participating in this blog with poor, even child-like writing skills is frightening. The next generation is border-line retarded.

I miss a the old Shakira, I think that now she can only sell, her songs are not as good as yesteday! It´s so bad! I think that she had more quality in the pass, the lirycs! It´s my opinion! Hugs!

Reconozco que de un tiempo para acá no paro de oír hablar de Shakira y la provocación Rubia… entiendo que Sexo o Sensualidad y Arte muchas veces se dan la mano de un modo raro hasta el punto de formar una mezcla en donde se prejuzga como inaceptable todo aquello que tiene un look “Ambiguamente” explicito…

Está claro que ser una Mujer Guapa es un Hándicap para el mundo del arte, ya que ser guapa a veces se asocia con valer poco (Si no fuera por su físico nadie se habría fijado en ella…), supongo que ser Guapa es una desgracia como otra cualquiera… así que, bajo ese prisma, supongo que Jude Law, Javier Bardem, Jeremy Irons o Daniel Day Lewis son actores que basan su éxito en ser “Bellos”…

Ah NO !!! No es lo mismo…
¿Por qué? ¿Por ser Hombres? ¿Acaso los Rolling Stones no son un referente SEXUAL de toda una época? ¿Entonces porque según de quien hablemos se trata de alguien valido o de una Guarrona?

Si tienes éxito y le ponen Tú cara a un cuerpo de quien sabe quien en una Página Porno… la culpa es de la “MUJER” que es “PROVOCATIVA” y se presta a ese tipo de “UTILIZACIONES”… si eres mujer tienes que tener cuidado de no ser demasiado abierta en ciertos temas ya que muchas personas creen que ser “ABIERTA” es SER un “OBJETO” del “MACHO”… así que mejor TAPAR tus “INQUIETUDES” no sea que ¿CONFUNDAS?…

Esas inquietudes están solo autorizadas si eres un Varón o si eres un Caballo o si vas con el ombligo CUBIERTO !!!
CUANTA HIPOCRESÍA… POR FAVOR !!! Que en pleno siglo XXI una Fémina no tenga derecho a declararse LIBREMENTE sin que eso resulte OFENSIVO o alguien crea que por ello se le esté AUTORIZANDO actitudes MACHISTAS o PELIGROSAS…

Si un cantante se rodeara de Chicos en una Sauna, posiblemente la mayoría viéramos en eso una declaración de una cierta homosexualidad, Shakira puede rodearse de mujeres y su discurso ser radicalmente diferente…
Tengo clara la Heterosexualidad de esta artista, pero… a veces… entreveo ciertos atisbos ligeros de Bisexualidad en esta “Mujer de la Intuición”, lo hace de un modo tan sutil que deja claro que no trata de defender o atacar este tipo de inclinaciones, busca definir sin exagerar que en estos “AMORES” las RELACIONES se sienten de diferente manera… que ambos MODOS pueden tener su espacio sin necesidad de prejuicios… sin que exista un Crimen y un Castigo.

El “AMOR” en una Mujer es un Derecho Universal a un Sentimiento mientras que en un Hombre es una Obligación Individual a un Placer… o lo que es lo mismo, el sexo en el hombre es un derecho que delimita las Obligaciones de la Mujer… en el Hombre es un bien realizado en la Suite de la 16, mientras que en la Mujer es un “SUSPIRO” de Sauna… y al hacer eso no está DEFENDIENDO ni CRITICANDO, simplemente está hablando de la tendencia de una SOCIEDAD que muchos creen que está EVOLUCIONADA…

Ella tiene dudas sobre dicha EVOLUCIÓN visto desde su condición de Mujer…

Shakira no busca la Ofensa aunque algunos puedan sentirse escandalizados porque exprese sus mundos INTIMOS de ese modo… sinceramente creo que lo que expresa es algo muchísimo más INOCENTE que lo que algunos quieren o creen ver y que no entienden el discurso Femenino/Personal visto desde la condición de Hombres que son… no ven más lejos de su nariz y se quedan simplemente con una Imagen de Provocación al Macho… eso que defino arriba como los DERECHOS del Varón que marca los límites a las Obligaciones de la Hembra…

Shakira retrata que aun hoy en día las diferencias entre ambos Sexos siempre terminan por discriminar y asfixiar a las Mujeres cuando estas deberían tener la misma libertad para poder decidir que el Sexo puede ser un Placer sin que eso convierta a la Mujer en una Puta o una Pervertida…

Creo que Shakira es bastante INGENUA cuando muestra aspectos íntimos de sí misma en sus canciones… lo creo… sinceramente.

Por otro lado, una cosa es que lo que hace una determinada artista te guste o no y otra que bases la calidad o no calidad de un Trabajo por un aspecto Sexual… Blondie, Tina Turner, Sade, Christina Aguilera, etc… ¿Son MALAS artistas porque son Sexis?Es decir… si eres Guapa tienes todas las papeletas para ser una mala artista… ¿¿¿???

Qué manía de hablar solo de Shakira porque mueva o deje de mover las caderas, o porque hacer canciones provocativas es ser una Vendida… ahhhggg… que TONTERÍA !!!

EL DISCO DE “SHE WOLF” es TOTAL… que más me da ese tipo de debates para pensar o dejar de pensar que estamos ante un disco ENORME !!!

¿Qué le falta originalidad? ¿Qué se repite en sus ritmos árabes?
¿Y AC/DC NO SE REPITE? No te digooo…

¿Qué es una vendida? Y los U2 sacan discos a cambio de un Bocata de Salchichón… no te joeee…

“She Wolf” es un disco súper trabajado… donde los temas suenan todos al Ritmo adecuado, ni más fuerte ni más suave, ni más rápido ni más lento de a lo que tienen que sonar… las melodías están muy elaboradas… vale que Shakira se ha vuelto más ELECTRÓNICA y menos ACÚSTICA ¿Y QUE?.Este CD suena tan bien o mejor que “Servicio de Lavandería”.

ESTE DISCO ES UNA GENIALIDAD y esta Currao, currao…

I miss the old Shakira…!!

Donde están los ladrones?.. Antologia?… Octavo Dia!!!!!!!

Shakira is a exotic dancer. That’s all she ever was. She draws attention to her sexual energy because the music never happened.

I miss the old shakira too!She Wolf is horrible!!

I agree with you above me, where is Shakira, the real Shakira, not this “product” from USA. Oh my God she was brilliant, perfetc: where is “Donde están los ladrones?.. Antologia?… Octavo Dia!!!!!!!” and a lot of good songs that she used to write. It´s so bad! I miss a lot the old SHAKIRA, the REAL Shakira!

I guess this thread has lots of trolls

Q: Can Shakira Conquer the World?

A: No fucking way.

Greetings from Argentina ^^

The real question should be: Can Shakira Conquer the World AGAIN?

to all the haters:
wtf is wrong with ya’ll shakira writes n produces her songs, she is fuckin talented, she does not have one single song that its not hers!!! she is one of the most complete pop female artists, plus U can automatically recognize her when u listen to her songs. she is unique, besides being a freakin Awesome HUman being, she helps the poor and its always supporting his home coutntry…shakira rocks!! PESELE A KIEN LE PESE!

Anonymous better be glad their anonymous cause if I knew who they were I would personally punch them in the face for talking smack about Shakira the Latin pop goddess who is better than any crappy music I’m sure they listen to.

I’m a rocker, and even IIII like Shakira!

“She Wolf” is her best song yet — the music video is cool too, minus the part where she’s sucking her fingers… that type of sluttiness is just not her — but the song is one of this year’s best ones.

Scanning through these comments, it’s clear to me that people have a hard time moving on in terms of changing musical landscape… pop music is always changing, and, yes, often what is current is hard to accept, and can sound less soulful, less inspired than music from the era before it… yes, sometimes new music is very hard to listen to, even for a progessive minded person like me =)

But the new Shakira song is good, and I think it’s going to seep into people’s conscience in time. You have to think back and look at the history of any good song that has stood the test of time… a new, and in a sense (at the time) controvesial pop song comes out — for example, take Kim Carnes’ “Bette Davis Eyes” — the song garners immediate attention, is instantly hated by many and/or thought of as weird or unfitting at the time by many (mainly by those living in the past), but, in time, as the song seeps into peoples’ brains, the song becomes liked by just as many people, or more, thus becomes popular, and, in time, a classic… it’s always been like that, pretty much…

Of course I’m not saying everything that’s out today is good; take mainstream rock: bands like Three Days Grace and Breaking Benjamin make me wanna wretch.

To be honest i already listen the whole record and i have to say that at first time it´s feel very different from all i heard before,but every rythm, every word it´s perfectly design to produce and emotion on listeners, every bit produce on you a good reaction,and good feeling so i only can recommend to listen the whole record and i´m sure that after that you´ll agree with me that this is a great record, surely the best of 2009.

It takes more talent than SHE has to conquer the world. Did u hear Jimmy Kimmel tell her, “..he likes her robot dance?” She sux, and even Madonna knows it.

If there’s someone who conquered the world, it’s BRITNEY.. She had a mindblowing popularity and success that every single person talked about her worldwide, had been the biggest selling female of the decade, still most searched name on web, her songs and videos became worldwide phenomenon, and everybody followed her footsteps.. Even her depression-time was one of the biggest legendary eras in the industry… Flopkira is a Middle East singer, and she has just one known album.. Her new album is a totally flop…

Es la onda Shakira al menos es la latina de moda en estos tiempos….. pero como todo algun dia llegara otra a ver quien la destronara tal vez una mexicana? argentina? peruana? pero en fin ella es un ejemplo perfecto con eso d q ayuda asu gente esta super bien mas latinos y artistas de ese tipo necesitamos

She FLOP!
Shakira you’re not hot, you can’t sing, you can’t dance. Why do you even bother? Leave us alone.

ı love shakira ım fan of her she is just great nobody can do the thıngs she achived and she improves herself in every album not like other same tunes same rythm diffrent lyrcs and she doesnt relase an album in 1 year so she speand yeard to produce good thıng so pple have to respect tıs she is not ordinary star and she achived thıs from colombia not like from usa or other go shakira ı love u

SENCILLAMENTE UNA DIOSA, COMO ELLA NO HAY DOS. INIGUALABLE, NO HAY ARTISTA QUE LA SUPERE, A PESAR DE JUGAR COMO VISITANTE, SU HUELLA ES INBORRABLE, PORQUE NO CUALQUIERA TRIUNFA EN LOS EE..UU
VIVA COLOMBIA