Shakira’s new video She Wolf is as subtle and rich in meaning as a Garcia Marquez novel, but I’m afraid that, like a Garcia Marquez novel, a lot of it went over my head.
For example, that glistening pink cavern she dances around is obviously a metaphor for something. But what?
“There’s a she-wolf in the closet...”
In Colombia, a she wolf –una loba- is a woman of easy virtue, a slapper. “There’s a slapper in the closet.” This is excellent news, if true, even if it’s only a metaphorical slapper in the closet of life type of situation.
Cultured Dan, an appalling oaf in my office, argued that this song “mucho sucks”, but said that, despite this, he would be prepared to give the pint-sized Colombian crooner one up the gary, if called upon to do so.
Peals before swine. See what I have to put up with?
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