The Latin Grammy Awards are coming around soon, which is good news for everyone who likes Shakira – because Shakira has been nominated in just about every Latin Grammys category going.
Obviously Shakira's giant success at the Latin Grammy Award nominations is down to one thing and one thing only; Shakira is literally the only Latin artist on the planet. Seriously, that's the only reason why we can explain Shakira's gigantic amount of Latin Grammy nominations – since it's the Latin Grammys, we can't say that the judges were swayed by that video of Shakira waggling her arse around like it was on fire and she was trying to put it out. Having said that, the video for La Tortura – where Shakira rolls around the floor with hardly any clothes on covered in motor oil – might have had something to do with it, in retrospect.
There's an argument that says that the Latin Grammys are an entirely pointless awards ceremony, since the actual main Grammy awards are so swelteringly all-encompassing – covering everything from Best Children's Album to Best Hawaiian Music Album – that they already give awards to six Latin albums every year, which instantly renders the separate Latin Grammy ceremony second-rate. OK, we'll admit it – we're just jealous that Latin music gets its own Grammys while the all-important Album Notes category looks set to forever be the bridesmaid.
Come the night of the Latin Grammys, though, all eyes will be on Shakira, who has dominated the Latin Grammy nominations. Shakira must be getting used to this – she also wiped the floor at the MTV VMA nominations, too. However, in the MTV awards Shakira was mostly nominated for Hips Don't Lie, the song we think Shakira secretly resents because she had to record it to make people buy her failing album and people only like it because she jiggles her boobs around in it, but that isn't really a Latin song.
Instead, Shakira has been nominated mostly for her Spanish language album Fijacion Oral, Vol. 1, which has been nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Album and Album Of The Year, while La Tortura – a song with a video where Shakira rolls around on the floor covered in oil – has unsurprisingly been put up for Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year and Short-Form Video Of The Year.
Shakira – who might even stop singing for Russian coins to attend the November 2 awards – isn't the only singer to be nominated for the Latin Grammys. But she is the only one we've ever heard of, and the only one you probably have too.
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Shakira's High Five! – New York Daily News
[story by Stuart Heritage]