Shakira: ‘Some of my Songs Don’t Make Sense’
Posted by Richard Head
SHAKIRA doesn’t care if her lyrics don’t make sense.
The Columbian singer – whose songs have included bizarre lines such as “I’m starting to feel just a little abused like a coffee machine in an office” in current hit She Wolf – admits she struggles to explain the meanings behind the words in her songs.
“It’s hard to explain my lyrics because sometimes I just write things because they rhyme,” she said. “I found this metaphor, and I thought it made a lot of sense. A coffee machine in an office has everybody’s fingerprints on it. Sometimes I feel like that.”
Despite holding strong political views, Shakira deliberately doesn’t air them in her music because she prefers songwriting to be relaxing.
“Now that I have the chance to sit down with journalists, I can relax when it comes to music and not use it as another instrument of communication,” she said.
“When I write, my subconscious somehow finds its way to the surface. It’s not such an intellectual process, it’s more organic.”
Shakira recently paid a vist to Oxford University.
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