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"Underneath Your Clothes" is a song by Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira for her third studio album and English-language debut, ''Laundry Service'' (2001). The power ballad was the second English language single released from the album, and it features lyrics by Shakira and music by her and Lester Mendez; both are also the producers of the song. Lyrically, the song tells the story of the unconditional love that a woman has for her boyfriend, with her claiming she is worthy of his love for being a good girl and having maternal instincts. Some critics commended the song for being a highlight from the album, while also praising her vocals. However, others were more critical towards her songwriting and the song's production, which according to them resembled The Bangles' "Eternal Flame" and Beatles' "Penny Lane". The song was a huge success on the charts, topping the charts of over six countries, while also reaching the top-ten in more than fourteen territories, including the United States, where it became her third most successful single there, behind only "Whenever, Wherever" (2001) and "Hips Don't Lie" (2006). The song is also listed as one of the twenty biggest-selling singles of the 2000 decade with sales of over 6 million copies. The accompanying music video for the song was directed by fashion photographer Herb Ritts and poignantly depicts Shakira's loneliness as a recording artist on tour. It also features Shakira's former boyfriend Antonio de la Rúa, which caused controversy in Argentina, leding to a ban of her albums in the country. Shakira has promoted the song with a series of live performances across the world, while also performing it on her worldwide tours, "Tour of the Mongoose" (2002-2003), "Oral Fixation Tour" (2006-2007) and most recently on "The Sun Comes Out World Tour" (2010-2011). ==Background and release== After releasing her second major album, ''Dónde Están los Ladrones?'', in 1998, achieving a lot of success, Shakira released her first live album, ''MTV Unplugged: Shakira'', in 2000. However, Shakira wanted to breakthrough in the United States and the world with songs in English. Shakira said, "Before assuming this big challenge of writing for the first time in English and making my first English album and presenting it to the world… of course I was feeling ready for it, a little bit scared… actually a lot scared. But I knew I could do it and my instincts always told me to go ahead and jump in the water." To achieve this goal, Shakira locked herself up with a personal tutor, studied the lyrics of Bob Dylan and the poetry of Walt Whitman and wrote the English lyrics to her album 'Laundry Service’, 'with a dictionary in one hand and a thesaurus in the other’." She claimed, 'I just felt that was part of my destiny and I had to fulfil it. I knew I had to jump into a pool of cold water without even knowing how to swim, and I learnt. Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn’t just let someone else do it." During the process, Shakira wrote "Underneath Your Clothes", a love song about her relationship with Antonio de la Rúa. She explained that, "If you check the subject of my songs, most of them talk about my own experiences and feelings and what I was actually going through in my life." "Underneath Your Clothes" was released to U.S. radio stations as the second single from the album in February 2002,〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.promoonly.com/listings/view.php?issueid=536 )〕 while its single was released in May 2002.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://itunes.apple.com/sa/album/underneath-your-clothes-single/id456762792 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Underneath Your Clothes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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