Shakira performed a cover of the 1953 Christmas classic ‘Santa Baby’ during NBC’s ‘Christmas In Rockefeller Center’ Special, posting it at her YouTube channel. “Hey guys. I just want to wish you all a very happy Christmas and thank you for all your support in what has been an amazing year for me,” the Colombian pop singer writes. “I look forward to seeing you on the road in 2010!” Watch it below.

Shakira was spotted waving to fans outside the MTV studios in New York City on Tuesday (October 20). The Colombian pop singer was promoting her new album ‘She Wolf’ on ‘It’s On with Alexa Chung’.

On her biggest defect, Shakira said, “I am often very self critical and a perfectionist. I know that sometimes it works in favor but many times it works against me. I actually read somewhere that if you are looking for a job, or you are interviewing for a job, you should never say that you are a perfectionist, because they won’t give you the job. Apparently that’s a really bad thing to say, so don’t do that. I would be unemployed if I was interviewing for a job, because that’s probably the first thing I would say. That’s not such a good thing.”

On her state of mind, she said, “As Proust would say I’m in search of lost time. I think that I am trying to balance my life out a little bit. My album is about to come out and my life is getting crazy again. Very hectic and I’m trying to remain close to my friends and my family and my loved ones, which are everything to me.”

Watch the interview below.

Note: The image provided by Bauer Griffin has since been removed.

Shakira appeared on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ in Hollywood on Friday (September 18), performing her new single ‘She Wolf’ and closing the ABC show with ‘Did It Again’ after chatting briefly with the host. Earlier, a skit featured Guillermo claiming Shakira had ripped off his ‘He Wolf’ video. Watch the performances (the comedy clip has since been removed) at YouTube (‘She Wolf’ / ‘Did It Again’).

Shakira is out with a three-part making-of documentary for her ‘She Wolf’ music video, with the finished product at the end of part three. The footage features comments from the video’s director Jake Nava and others involved, as well as Shakira. The song is the lead release and title track off her third English studio album, out October 5th on Epic Records.

“It has a lot of fantasy dancing all throughout the video from beginning to end,” Shakira said about the music video.

“Time goes by and I feel a little bit more in touch with my own freedom,” Shakira explained. “I think ‘She Wolf’ is about that. It’s about the woman who knows what she wants. A woman who is in touch with her subconscious desire, and she fights for them with teeth and claws like a wild beast. It’s the woman of our time.”

“The she wolf is me, but it’s not only me, but it’s the women and the men of our time,” Shakira said about the song. “I think that the way we view things, the vision that we have of the world today is a little more open.”

“It’s the woman during the daytime, and the animal at night,” Shakira described the ‘She Wolf’. “I have always felt that I am not completely human in a way. This is gonna sound really odd, but I have always felt this animal inside of me. This other animal that doesn’t make a lot of sense. It’s just primitive, and I know that inside of me there is a whole world that the material world outside doesn’t see. Of course I am a she wolf.”

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