Love and sexual fantasies are often openly expressed in music. Occasionally, artists will conceal secret messages in their love songs. "Underneath your Clothes" by Shakira is a beautiful example of a love song with tainted intensions. Shakira uses many innocent phrases to hide her true intensions of sex because she wants to eventually use sex to achieve control over men.
The lyrics of "Underneath your Clothes" show how Shakira repeatedly uses innocent phrases to mask her intensions of sex. Shakira begins her song saying that the man she is seeking is "written by the hands of God" (line2-3). She uses the holy term "God" to set a pure tone to her song suggesting that her secret yet sinful intensions are harmless. A person with untainted objectives could and would have found another way of saying that a man was good looking, without mentioning God. Later in her song, Shakira hints her purity by implying
Shakira uses innocent phrases to secretly mask her sexual intensions, because she wants to use the sex to control men. Throughout the song Shakira repeats that "underneath [the guy's] clothes [...] [is] the man [she] chose" (line15). And that the man she chose is "[her] territory" (line16). Saying that her territory is right under the guy's clothes implies that after she has sex, the man is her property. A person who is not seeking control using sex, would not write about a person being their property after the clothes comes off. In doing so, Shakira reveals her true intensions of sex and using the sex to own or control men.
In "Underneath your Clothes" Shakira employs various innocent phrases to mask her real intensions of sex because she has plans eventually use sex to attain control over men. The song "Underneath your Clothes" has sexual intensions covered up with innocent words and phrases. The intensions are disguised b
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