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 that she is "like a lady to her good manners[...]" (line 39). By using this specific simile, Shakira suggests that she is a "good girl" that was taught superior manners. If Shakira's conscience was clear she would have no reason to make such a suggestion; unfortunately, Shakira has other things on her mind. Shakira's included such innocent lyrics to keep her wicked sexual intensions secret, so she can later use sex to gain control over men.
             The title "Underneath your Clothes" and other lyrics point to Shakira's obvious goal: sex. Shakira ends her first verse looking for her "[sexual] thoughts"(line8), that are allegedly "right under [a man's] clothes" (line10). A person without sexual intensions would not even think about another person naked, especially a person of the opposite sex. But, Shakira has sexual intensions that lead her to fantasize about a man without his clothes. Shakira continues her
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