Day 8 - South America
Still holding out hope that Pies Descalzos will get repressed because I have great memories of blasting that album when it came out and having sing-alongs to it in the back of overloaded rusty old pickup trucks. I can still smell the burning brakes and grilling roadside meats of Guayaquil when I listen to that album. Shakira was a big deal because she brought a new kind of music to the mainstream in South America that wasn't imported. Even with the success of Luis Miguel and Mana, they were still coming from outside the continent, and although there were popular and successful musicians in South America, most were fairly traditional and conservative in their sounds. Shakira broke through with her sound and really connected to a lot of the youth who had a foot in both their home countries' traditions and the increasingly globalized and Americanized world they were getting through television and a growing awareness, if minimal access at the time, of the internet.
My only complaint of this release is that VMP still uses jpeg quality images blown up and blurry for the covers.
Shakira - Donde Estan Los Ladrones?
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