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| MSN Live Chat With Shakira |
| Webcast on March 29th, 2004 |
| �MSN Live. Edited for clarity.
Originally Webcast March 29, 2004 Digital Dish Diva says: Welcome to MSN Live! This afternoon we are pleased to welcome Shakira to MSN Live! Shakira will be answering your questions about "Live & Off the Record" her new DVD/CD. Digital Dish Diva says: Shakira, welcome to MSN Live! It is so great to have you here! Shakira says: Hi everybody around the world! Shakira says: Thank you. Digital Dish Diva says: Congratulations on the new DVD! Digital Dish Diva says: There are fans who have been waiting in the chat room since this weekend! Shakira says: Wow, that's amazing! I've been looking forward to getting in touch with my fans. I know they are wondering what I'm doing and if I'm still alive and the answer is Yes. I've been working. I've been putting together my live DVD and CD that will be out this Tuesday and secondly, preparing my next album. I've been writing songs and producing them so it takes time. So for those that have thought I have been crouching in my bed I haven't. (laughs) I've been working. Ciega_sordomuda08 in Onstage_1 asks: Hola Shakira! I love you and hi from Canada. My question, is that I want to know if all your songs (especially si te vas) are first-hand personal experiences? Shakira says: I can't believe that there's a fan that doesn't speak Spanish and loves those songs, I love that when music transcends the barriers of language. When the music delivers the message and I thank the fans for that. Shakira says: Most of them portray my personal situations. The feelings I'm experiencing and going through in my life. My albums are very autobiographical and this next album is for sure like a mirror in which I can see my own reflection because it expresses a lot of my own dilemmas, the things I'm sure about and the things I'm not sure about. This album embraces all of that. RemixFreakGirl in Onstage_1 asks: Shakira, you said you have 30 songs that you have written for your next album. What will happen to the songs that don't make the final cut. Do you think you could be releasing them as a B-side? All of your fans would more than love that. Especially me. Shakira says: I was actually making a list yesterday of the songs I've written in total and there's about 60. I like about 45 of them so it would be very difficult to only choose 15. I don't know what songs won't make it to the album, it depends, I change so much over the years I don't always continue to identify with songs I've written. Sometimes it's difficult because I've grown in a different direction to sing the same song. BrisitadelMar1 in Onstage_1 asks: How different are your beliefs and ideas today from how they were 7 years ago? Shakira says: I'm basically the same in essence. I'm still neurotic and an obsessive compulsive perfectionist. I follow my instinct and have been that way since I was 8. Today when I raise my hand to show my music I get more respect than when I was 14 years old in a world of men. I have the same desire of making my vision a reality but it wasn't that easy back then as it is now. G�ven_and_Gato in Onstage_1 asks: Can you specify now already how the new album is going to look like? Will it be a Spanish-English-double-album? Or rather one album with mixed language? (from Germany) Shakira says: You know I haven't made that decisions but I have so many songs I would like to do a double album, one in English and one in Spanish. I would love to please both worlds because I know I have fans in the Spanish and English speaking worlds. The good news is that I have songs to please both worlds. (laughs) Camy574 in Onstage_1 asks: Hi Shakira! I'm Camy of France. This is my question. After ending your first World Tour, do you think you'll have the strength of doing another one after your next album ? Shakira says: That's a good question because when you finish a tour, especially a tour like my last tour, you feel like you have no energy. You want to lay in bed for a year. I just wanted to isolate myself and recover from the over stimulation that my brain was exposed to all those months because it's a very physical job to jump up and down for hours every day and take so many planes in a week. I didn't want to know anything about it but when it was over I just wanted to do it again. Now I turn on MTV and I want to be on there. It's like being in a club and you never want to be kicked out. I'm just focusing on this album and making the best music I can. Then I will focus on another tour because I'll want to be on the road again. Biloodu681 in Onstage_1 asks: What did you feel when people ask you to become ambassador for the UNICEF ? Is it an honor for you ? Shakira says: Absolute honor but it is a big responsibility and huge commitment taking a huge part of my energy, intellect, and compassion. I have that compassion to dedicate to children's needs. I am totally happy with this new charge I've been given. I'm ready to start rolling with the machine and putting all my efforts into it. 4534Orakel in Onstage_1 asks: Here from Holland its three o'clock in the night very late but I wanna ask, where did you write and got inspiration for "Poem to a Horse"? Frank Holland Shakira says: What are you doing up that late? (laughs) It was inspired by someone I know that is close to me. A close friend that was 16, he's older now in his 20's and I was watching how he was wasting his life with weed. He was so into that he was wasting his energy as a kid. He was abusing himself by the use/abuse of that. I just saw him decaying little by little, his personality. I was a witness to him changing and not being motivated in life. That's one of the effects of marijuana. It causes marijuana syndrome and it causes them to be non motivated. ShakiFan�tico in Onstage_1 asks: Hi Shakira! You're the greatest! I'm from Holland and I was wondering if it was your decision to choose Holland as location for your DVD. And if so, why did you choose this country? Shakira says: I love Holland and it was easy logistically speaking to do it there and I knew the crowd would be cooperative and it ended up being the best show on the whole tour. The crowd was excited and that's what we needed on the DVD, to portray the excitement of the crowd and that's what we obtained. It was an unforgettable night! Digital Dish Diva says: And an unforgettable CD. Digital Dish Diva says: Shakira, I know you need to run. Thank you for joining us tonight on MSN Live! Shakira says: It was a pleasure to have a chat with my fans. I have missed you and I am looking forward to going on the road again with new music to present to you. I hope you can join me on this new adventure. Big hundreds/thousands of kisses to all of you! |