Shakira Almost Dropped by Her Record Label
Shakira – the Hips Don’t Lie hitmaker- had to get her famous booty into gear for her third album — because her record label were on the verge of dropping her, she has revealed. Shakira says she was given her “last chance” by the label after her first two albums failed to impress.
“Before my third album, they warned me that if nothing really happened, they were going to drop me,” Shakira said. “I knew it was my last chance, so I took control.
“I started to get more involved with production. I started to use my own influences. My music was influenced more by the Anglo-Saxons than the local tropical or Latin roots.
“When I was singing in Spanish, I had a more rock’n’roll attitude. I was very inflexible, very rigid in many aspects.
“There were things that would be completely unacceptable to me, like wearing a leotard, or showing my legs. I was more of a purist then.”
The Columbian superstar then went on to release her third album, which sold five million copies, and made her a household name in Latin America.
Shakira then followed that up with the English-language album Laundry Service, which sold 13million copies worldwide.
