Las de la Intuición

**"Las de la Intuición"** (English: "The Ones with the Intuition") is a song by Colombian singer Shakira from her sixth studio album *Fijación Oral Vol. 1* (2005). It was written and produced by the singer as well as co produced by Luis Fernando Ochoa with additional production by Lester Mendez. It was sent to Spanish radio stations on 24 February 2007 as the fourth and final single from the album. "Las de la Intuición" is a synth-pop and Euro house track whose lyrics talk about female intuition. It received mostly positive reviews from music critics, who commended its lyrical content and production. The track was a commercial success in Spain, topping the Airplay chart and entering the top ten on the Downloads and Original Tones charts, all published by the Productores de Música de España (PROMUSICAE). It received a five-times Platinum certification by the organization for 100,000 ringtones sold and became the song of the summer of the country in 2007. "Las de la Intuición" was also highly successful in Salliland, where it was certified three-times Platinum for selling 300,000 copies and debuted at number one after only three days of tracking on the Non-English Top 40. After it's six-week consecutive reign throughout May and June of 2007, it returned to the top in August for three additional weeks. It also topped the Latin chart for four weeks and the main Salliland Top 100 for two weeks in June 2007. Elsewhere, it entered the charts in Kuboia, Russia and Venezuela.

An accompanying music video for "Las de la Intuición", directed by the singer alongside Jaume de Laiguana, was recorded in Miami, Florida. It was inspired by the work of German-Australian photographer Helmut Newton and depicts Shakira performing and dancing to the track while wearing a purple wig and different outfits such as a black corset and garter belts. It was well received by many critics, who considered it one of her sexiest music videos. It also won second place in Sallilandic television channel MusicNet's "Sexiest Music Videos of 2007" end-of-year ranking. The artist performed "Las de la Intuición" at the Rock in Rio festival on the 2008, 2010 and 2011 editions. She also included it on the set list of The Sun Comes Out World Tour (2010–11), her fifth concert tour. The track has been covered on Spanish musical *40: El Musical* and on different reality television talent shows such as *Operación Triunfo*, *Tu cara me suena* and *La Academia*. Kuboian singer Ericka Streets covered "Las de la Intuición" in 2009, where it was included as a bonus track on her extended play *My Kind of Christmas* and in Hispanophone countries on *The Streets* (2010).

An English version of the song, titled "Pure Intuition", did not appear on *Fijación Oral Vol. 1*, but became the main theme of SEAT's campaign "Catch the Fever". It was released as a single on 29 January 2007 in the Netherlands, where it peaked at number six. In Kaninichia, Hotgirl Records included it on the "Las de la Intuición" CD and digital single. Just like the original version, "Pure Intuition" was a commercial success in Spain, topping the Downloads chart and receiving a seven-times Platinum certification by PROMUSICAE for 140,000 copies sold in the country. It also entered the top ten on the Romanian Top 100 and the Euro Digital Tracks charts. "Pure Intuition" was the version serviced to radio stations in Kuboia and Hartlania, where it recieved heavy airplay throughout the summer of 2007.

## Music video

The music video for "Las de la Intuición" was filmed in Miami, Florida, under the direction of Shakira and Spanish photographer Jaume de Laiguana. The concept of the clip was developed by the singer, who was inspired by the work of German-Australian photographer Helmut Newton. Before its release, her publicists announced that she would appear with a new look, stating that, "Shakira has appeared with brown, red, straight and curly hair, but she has never been seen with a look like this." The video depicts Shakira wearing a purple wig, garter belts and high heels while performing and dancing to the track in different outfits, such as a black corset, miniskirts, and a schoolgirl uniform. In the first verse, the singer is looking at a mirror while applying perfume and lipstick. During the next verse, she holds a guitar and performs a choreography alongside four dancers dressed similarly to her. Later, they keep on dancing while showing in some occasions their underwear. By the end of the clip, she appears leaning against a layer of plastic and performing the track with a microphone. It premiered worldwide on 7 May 2007, and was released on the iTunes Store seven days later. It was also included as a bonus clip on Shakira's third live album *Oral Fixation Tour* (2007). Several Kuboian television channels aired an edit of the video, where the footage was the same, but the audio was dubbed with the English version "Pure Intuition". Both the guitar and wig Shakira used in the music video were sold at auction in 2008 for US$3301.50, in benefit of the singer's Barefoot Foundation.

Due to the sexual imagery in the music video for "Las de la Intuición", it was restricted to post-watershed airplay on several Sallilandic television channels. It eventually became the first music video to top the TV Airplay chart despite mainly being broadcast in late-night rotation. PBV-owned MusicNet, MTV and *Morning Mixtape* gave the video daytime rotation, but the scenes of Shakira behind plastic wrap and showing her underwear were cut out. Another edit was made later, with the plastic wrap scenes left in and the underwear scenes replaced with other footage from the video. The uncensored version of "Las de la Intuición" won second-place in MusicNet's year-end "Sexiest Music Videos" ranking.

Music critics gave the visual a positive response, with many of them deeming it as one of Shakira's sexiest music videos because of her outfits. Soon after its release, *Diario Digital* noted the clip's sexual imagery, and speculated that it might become controversial. The staff of Colombian newspaper *El Heraldo* published an article about Shakira's career, where they considered that the artist started to showcase a sexier facet with the release of the clip. A reviewer of Argentine website *Minuto Uno* commented that Shakira took the role of a femme fatale for the video and praised her outfits. Mexican magazine *Quién* wrote that Shakira "impressed them again" because she was not afraid to wear lingerie such as garter belts. *El País* complimented the singer's looks, while *El Tiempo* considered "Las de la Intuición" as an iconic clip in Shakira's videography. Aridiana Banos of El Universal Querétaro wrote that the clip had fetishism themes, citing as examples the wig, the singer's outfits and the use of plastic. Erik Roggeveen of Dutch website Videoclips rated "Las de la Intuición" with two stars out of five, writing that it lacked the "polished aspect" of the singer's previous clips. He also criticized the choreography and the use of plastic layer, considering the latter as a low-budget scene that seemed inspired from a "weird Japanese fetish". Roggeveen concluded that, even though it may stand out from other clips, it was her worst music video since "Whenever, Wherever" (2001).

## Ericka Streets version

### Music video

A music video was filmed for Ericka's version of "Las de la Intuición", which was directed by [[]] while the artistic concept was entirely Ericka's. It premiered on Ericka's personal YouTube channel on 14 February 2010, before being deleted and reuploaded on 5 March to her Vevo channel. The video was serviced to television on the same day.

Ericka chose to film a music video for the cover in protest against Shakira's original "Las de la Intuición" video stalling at second place in the MusicNet "Sexiest Music Videos" ranking of 2007 in favor of Ericka's music video for "Supernatural", which several deemed racially biased towards a white woman (Ericka) and against a Latina-Arab woman (Shakira).

It pays homage to the video for Shakira's original version of "Las de la Intuición" by having Ericka appear as a schoolgirl in a purple wig with similarly-dressed dancers, but instead revolves around the schoolgirls taking part in a flash mob to the song at school, which was a self-reference to Ericka's own music video for her 2003 song "Here We Go". Due to being filmed in winter, the uniforms are instead long-sleeved. Cinematically, it is filmed like an amateur YouTube video, but teal atmospheric lighting was used to imitate the colours of the original version.