Underneath your clothes

Underneath your clothes
Shakira
publication	June 7, 2002 (Europe)
length	3:44
Genre (s)	pop
text	Shakira
music	Shakira, Lester Mendez
album	Laundry service

Underneath Your Clothes is a Pop - Ballad of the Colombian singer and composer Shakira in 2001. It was the second English-language single from her album Laundry Service published. In Europe, the single was released on June 7, 2002.

Emergence

After the release of her first live album MTV Unplugged: Shakira , with which she won her first Grammy Award , Shakira had the desire to become known in the United States and the rest of the world through English-language songs . With the help of a private tutor she learned English , she also went to a farm in Uruguay for two years to learn how to write and record in English. After studying the lyrics of Bob Dylan and the poetry of Walt Whitman , Shakira began to write her own English-language songs "with a dictionary in one hand and a thesaurus in the other." While working on her studio album Laundry Service , Shakira wrote the lyrics to Underneath Your Clothes as a love song for her boyfriend at the time. The singer's second live album, Live & Off the Record , includes an acoustic version of the song, which Shakira recorded in April 2003 during a performance in Rotterdam as part of her Tour of the Mongoose .

Musical and content

Underneath Your Clothes was written by and produced by Shakira and the American music producer Lester Mendez. Rita Quintero and Shakira do the backing vocals . The song, composed in four-four time and in A flat major , has a tempo of 88 beats per minute . Shakira's vocal range extends from A ♭ 3 to C5 in the song. The intro of the song follows the progression A ♭ –D ♭ –A ♭ –D ♭ -Fm, while the stanzas have the progression Cm-D ♭ –E ♭ sus – E ♭.

Underneath Your Clothes was recorded at The Hit Factory music studios in Miami and at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas , and mixing took place at Crescent Moon Studios in Miami. The song tells the story of an absolute love a woman feels for her boyfriend.

reception

Underneath Your Clothes received mixed reviews. Armin Linder from Plattentests.de rated the song positively in the album review for Laundry Service and wrote: “And even if she rarely manages to channel her assets into original songs, no one can escape when she works in songs like" Underneath your clothes "does somersaults with its pipe and wants to get to the laundry". Chuck Taylor of Billboard magazine described the song as "a thought-provoking ballad that finds a novel way to convey a message of love and devotion." Matt Cibula of the online magazine PopMatters found Shakira's album "too slick and too pop". Regarding Underneath Your Clothes in particular, the reviewer added that “It [the song] could have been a great little thing [Little Thing]: simple, elegant, light. But now it's a bloody fiasco ”. The track was ranked 391 on The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born list by Blender magazine .

Commercial win

Underneath Your Clothes achieved high chart positions worldwide. The song debuted in the Billboard Hot 100 on March 16, 2002 at number 70. Two months, the song reached the top 10 for the first time at number 9, which was also its highest position in the charts. He spent a total of 20 weeks on the Hot 100. The song is listed at number 5 on the list of Shakira's most successful songs on the Billboard Hot 100. In the British single charts , Shakira rose to number 95 with her song on June 8, 2002 and was initially able to stay in the lower chart regions for five weeks. On August 3, 2002, they returned to third place, the highest position for Underneath Your Clothes in the UK. The song was able to stay in the top 10 for another two weeks, the last chart listing is on November 9, 2002. For over 200,000 copies of the single sold, Shakira was awarded a silver record by the British Phonographic Industry .

The piece entered the German single charts at number two on June 24, 2002 and stayed there for seven weeks. It spent a total of eleven weeks in the top 10 and 20 weeks in the top 100 in Germany. For over 250,000 copies sold, the single received a gold record from the Federal Association of the Music Industry . The song reached number one in the Ö3 Austria Top 40 and stayed there for 34 weeks in the charts. Here the single was awarded platinum. In the Swiss hit parade , it was also able to achieve a top 10 position with position 2. Again, Underneath Your Clothes received a platinum record.

The piece achieved further number one placements in Australia and Belgium (Flanders) . The song also achieved top 10 placements in Belgium (Wallonia 7th), Denmark (4th), Finland (8th), France (2), Italy (3), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand ( 2), Norway (2nd place) and Sweden (3rd place).

Music video

American photographer Herb Ritts directed the music video for Underneath Your Clothes . The video begins with a black and white scene in which a reporter asks Shakira how she felt after entering the English-speaking music market. Shakira answers him in Spanish. Shakira stated on MTV Making the Video that she wanted the music video to allude to her move to English-language music.

Her boyfriend at the time Antonio de la Rúa, the son of the former Argentine President Fernando de la Rúa, plays in the music video . This was identified by many compatriots as the culprit for the Argentina crisis . Due to the fact that the president's son played in the video of Shakira, Tower Records arranged Argentina to take all CDs from Shakira off the market.

Chart placements

Charts	Top ranking	Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK)	2 (20 weeks)	20th
Austria (Ö3)	1 (34 weeks)	34
Switzerland (IFPI)	2 (31 weeks)	31
United Kingdom (OCC)	3 (20 weeks)	20th
United States (Billboard)	9 (20 weeks)	20th

Awards for music sales

Underneath Your Clothes has been awarded 3 × gold and 5 × platinum worldwide.

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Australia (ARIA)	2 × platinum	140,000
Belgium (BEA)	platinum	50,000
Germany (BVMI)	gold	250,000
France (SNEP)	gold	250,000
Austria (IFPI)	platinum	30,000
Switzerland (IFPI)	platinum	40,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	gold	400,000
All in all	3 × gold 5 × platinum	1,160,000

Main article: Shakira / Music Sales Awards

Formats

CD single

1. Underneath Your Clothes (album version)  - 3:44
2. Underneath Your Clothes (acoustic version)  - 3:55

CD maxi

1. Underneath Your Clothes (album version)  - 3:44
2. Underneath Your Clothes (acoustic version)  - 3:55
3. Underneath Your Clothes (Mendez Club Radio Edit)  - 3:24
4. Underneath Your Clothes (Thunderpuss Club mix)  - 6:52
5. Underneath Your Clothes (Video)  - 3:44

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Ted Kessler: Interview Shakira - Colombian gold. In: The Guardian . July 14, 2002, accessed February 9, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Julia Llewellyn Smith: Shakira interview. In: The Daily Telegraph . September 1, 2009, accessed February 8, 2017 . 
4. ↑ 30 songs that give you that loving feeling. Retrieved February 8, 2017 . 
5. ^ Digital Sheet Music Underneath Your Clothes By Shakira. In: Musicnotes.com. Retrieved February 8, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Booklet Album Laundry Service
7. ↑ ^{a b} Esther Jung: Top Hot Shakira Songs: Check Out Colombian Hitmaker's Top 10 Countdown! In: Latin Post. March 6, 2014, accessed February 8, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Armin Linder: Wash and lay. In: Plattentests.de . Retrieved February 8, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Chuck Taylor: Reviews & Previews: Singles . In: The Nielsen Company (ed.): Billboard . No. 114 , February 16, 2002, ISSN  0006-2510 , p. 21 (English, google.de [accessed on February 8, 2017]).
10. ↑ Matt Cibula: An Open Letter to Shakira. In: Popmatters.com. November 12, 2001, accessed February 8, 2017 . 
11. ^ The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born. In: Blender . Archived from the original on March 22, 2009 ; accessed on February 8, 2017 . 
12. ^ Billboard Hot 100 Charts March 16, 2002. In: Billboard . Retrieved February 8, 2017 . 
13. ^ Gary Trust: Ask Billboard: Shakira's Biggest Hot 100 Hits. Billboard , March 7, 2014, accessed February 8, 2017 . 
14. ↑ Christina Saraceno: Herb Ritts Dies. In: Rolling Stone . December 27, 2002, accessed August 2, 2017 . 
15. ↑ Shakira Banned By Argentinian Record Chain. In: Billboard . March 8, 2002, accessed February 8, 2017 . 
16. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
17. ↑ Shakira - Underneath Your Clothes Label: Epic - EPC 672547 2nd Discogs , accessed February 8, 2017 .