Hips Don't Lie - Shakira Ft. Wyclef Jean (2006)

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[2005-2009 Best Songs]
Billboard Top 100, 2006: #5                                                               

 

For those of you who are big fans of Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights, you're aware that the original version of this song by Wyclef Jean is with Claudette Ortiz a couple years earlier. The rest of us first heard it with Shakira. There's a reason some cuts work and some don't. Sometimes it's just the right hook; sometimes it's right voice (and sometimes it's in the hips).

Shakira adds a richness of sound to this already-solid Latin rhythm, her more powerful voice creating a better balance to Jean's quick (and slick) cadence...
 
HA! Like you're even LISTENING to the music! Right now you have the screen maximized, don't you? You're not even reading this, are you?? HEY!

(yeah, me either)