^Not her best work. I personally like her Dirty Laundry album best. I'm not really too fond of her singing style, but that's because I prefer soprano singing, but I do like the fact that she sings in different languages like t.A.T.u. and other international artists.
I always found it unfair that foreign artists have to basically be twice as talented as their American counterparts to succeed in the industry--so someone like Shakira and Lena Katina has to sing not only in their native tongue, but in English as well, to make it in and actually have a series of talents for minimal recognition, whereas someone with questionable singing talent and a rather mediocre songwriting ability or no songwriting ability whatsoever, and certainly little to no bilingual abilities (i.e. most American pop singers) is catapulted to the height of fame and recognition.
Then of course there's the uniformness of the mainstream industry--if it sounds exceptional or quality, and it does not adhere to the "in" thing at the moment (formerly teen pop, hip hop, and now dance-pop), then it gets less attention despite its surplus of quantity. There's no mistaking Shakira's voice with anyone else, that's for certain, and her songs include a wide variety of actual instruments, not electronic beats. The same could be said for American artists like Emilie Autumn, who make use of baroque instruments like the Harpsichord and classical ones like the violin, Dutch band Within Temptation, German band Xandria, and Finnish band Nightwish feature a wide variety of instruments as well, as does the American band Evanescence, and even Russian t.A.T.u. at times features unique instruments (most notably the instrumental solo on Zachem Ya/Stars.)
These artists, in my view, will always be infinitely superior to any autotuned, overhyped pop tart.