Posted on 05/20/2006 9:25:56 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Now that Shakira will be performing at the World Cup in Germany next month, she has decided to learn everything there is to know about the game.
The Columbian singer will be performing her new hit My Hips Don't Lie, before the championship final on July 9 at Berlin's Olympic Stadium.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibnlive.com ...
Here is the pertinent segment of the song along with a link to the full lyrics:
Yeah
She's so sexy every man's fantasy a refugee like me back with the Fugees from a 3rd world country
I go back like when 'pac carried crates for Humpty Humpty
I need a whole club dizzy
Why the CIA wanna watch us?
Colombians and Haitians
I ain't guilty, it's a musical transaction
No more do we snatch ropes
Refugees run the seas 'cause we own our own boats
The official theme being used at this year's soccer World Cup in Germany is "zu Gast bei Freunden" which I translate as "visit with friends". Yet here we have a song that contains anti-US sentiment in the form of an attack against a US organization. I find it unacceptable that a song containing such lyrics as noted above will be sung at the World Cup final where the US might even be playing but at any rate will certainly have the avid attention of hundreds of millions of viewers from all around the world.
Please join me in sending a complaint to fifaworldcup.com at the web address noted below. On the feedback form where it says "Subject - choose one" select "Other" and let them know just how dissatisfied you are with the lyrics of this anti-US song.
Serious?
I'm sure the lyrics are lost on most of the testosterone-laden boys that drool over her videos. Get a grip (so to speak). (:^*)
I'm for free speech and free expression, even stupid singers singing their stupid lyrics at a stupid game.
Ugh. Well, she's wrong about who owns the seas and the boats, in any event.
;-)
There's more important things to worry about than this.
Besides...only girly-men play soccer anyways...
With all the over-the-top, hysterical anti-American trash out there, I ain't gonna worry about "Why the CIA wanna watch us." If that is mildly anti-American, the movie "Splash," is, comparably, an Al-Qaeda recruiting film.
However, I do think it's funny for a member of the Colombian elite to act like she's an oppressed third-worlder a la the Haitian refugees. That's a lot like a rich white Beverly Hills kid posing as a gangsta. She's nice to look at so I'll let it slip this time ;-)
Who's this Skakira? Anyone have a photo?
Photos won't sufficiently explain -- you have to see her in action. Try this page as your introduction:
http://www.shakiramedia.com/index.php?page=popup&id=910
Whatever her politics are, she is absolutely mesmerizing to watch. I think she breaks about four laws of physics with those moves.
There's lyrics to the song? I just turn the volume down myself.
I think this thread needs PICTURES! If I worked for the CIA, I'd watch her with my double top secret xray vision glasses.
Well, I can tell that you don't work for the CIA, because the double top secret xray vision glasses were obsoleted and removed from service three years ago.
Not that I would know anything about that, you know...
no fighting...
"Let her sing. I've said FAR worse stuff about the CIA than Shakira ever did. They deserve all the grief they get."
You are naturally free to express your criticisms of the CIA wherever you wish. However in this case we are talking about the FIFA World Cup and there is such a matter of good taste and fair treatment. Especially since FIFA is pushing the theme "visit with friends". How friendly is it to invite someone over to your house and then slam one of their national organizations? Would FIFA allow a song critical of the German secret service spying on journalists for many decades, the facts of which have just recently been revealed? I seriously doubt a song like that would have been selected for this World Cup final. Why then should Americans have to put up with this kind of rude treatment without even a complaint?
Often times when there is no complaint it's taken as there having been no foul. I for one choose to complain and complain Dick-Cheney-style, Big Time! Thus my posting here encouraging others to complain too.
I already know for a fact of six other individuals I have gotten to complain about this. If you could reconsider your position on this issue and send in a complaint as well then I would appreciate it. If instead you choose to retain your position of not complaining then ask yourself this: Would Germans complain if the World Cup was being held in America and a song was being sung at the World Cup final that was critical in some way of one of their national organizations? The answer I present is: Heck yea.
Remember that in your complacency.
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