La La La: Shakira Unleashes Monosyllabic 2014 World Cup Anthem – Enlists Messi, Neymar, Aguero, Falcao And Pique To Star In Official Video

Chris Wright

23rd, May 2014

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By Chris Wright

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Shakira has finally got round to releasing her anthem for the 2014 World Cup, a monosyllabic slab of faux-Samba ‘world party’ gunk called “La La La” – though she has gone to the trouble of traipsing through her husband’s phonebook to enlist the likes Lionel Messi, Neymar, Sergio Aguero, Radamel Falcao and Mr Shakira himself to appear in the video…

It’s the usual vapid tripe, but at least it’s got Shakira in the video – the same can’t be said for the official FIFA-approved 2014 World Cup anthem: “We Are One (Ole Ola) by Pitbull and Jennifer Lopez, which is somehow ten times worse despite being exactly the same…

Meh. We’ve forgotten them both already.