10 Questions for Shakira

The Colombian pop star's latest album, She Wolf, is out in November. Shakira will now take your questions

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Shakira

Your new album has a more electronic and dance feel to it than previous albums. Why did you want to move in that direction?

Julie Mills Wilson

WASHINGTON

From the beginning, I wanted an album that was dancy and fun. I wanted to have fun with this, and I want people to have fun with it as well, to forget about the economic crisis at least for 10 seconds on the dance floor.

I hear that you are a foreign-language buff. How many languages do you speak?

Kathy Dolan, WASHINGTON

I speak English, Spanish, Portuguese and some Italian. In my family,...

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