It’s hard to imagine Shakira‘s discography without the 2006 smash hit “Hips Don’t Lie,” but according to the star, the song very nearly didn’t come out when it did.
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05/07/2025In an interview with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show Thursday (May 8), Shakira recalled having to plead with her record label to release the now-iconic Wyclef Jean collaboration on a reissue of her album Oral Fixation, Vol. 2, even though the original LP was already out on store shelves. “I remember my album was already distributed, and then this idea came up, and Wyclef and I met,” she began, noting that she’d had a prophetic dream about the Haitian rapper just before he reached out asking to work with her.
“This song came about,” she continued. “I knew I had a hit, so I called Donny Ienner, who was in charge at the time of [Sony Music Label Group U.S.], and I said, ‘Donny, you have to pick up the albums from the stores.’ He was like, ‘No way, this album is already out there.’ I was like, ‘You’ve got to believe me. You’ve got to trust me. You do that, we have a hit.'”
To great reward, Shakira’s team ended up doing just that. Released in February 2006 on a repackaged version of Oral Fixation, Vol. 2, the track would ascend to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 and spend two weeks at No. 1, marking the four-time Grammy winner’s best performance on the chart to date. As Shakira put it to Fallon, “It changed my story.”
Shakira’s sit-down chat with the late night host comes just two days after she and Jean reunited on The Tonight Show to perform “Hips Don’t Lie” in celebration of its 20-year anniversary. She’s currently gearing up to embark on the United States leg of her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour, which kicks off May 13 in Charlotte, N.C., following a run of Latin America dates earlier this year.
Just last year, however, Shakira gave fans a taste of what’s to come when performed a surprise concert in Times Square in March 2024 for 40,000 fans. The show was truly something to behold, but according to the “She Wolf” singer, she thought it would be a complete failure in the hours leading up to it.
“The funny thing is I was so scared to do that performance, because I thought people were not going to show up,” she told Fallon on Thursday. “We announced it, like, two hours before the appearance, and half an hour before the appearance, I just saw cars. I was peeking through the window, I was so scared, I was like, ‘Oh my god, this is the end of my career.’ And then in the last 20 minutes, it was a sea of people.”
Watch Shakira’s full interview on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon above.
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