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==Background==
{{Quote box|width=280px|align=right|quote="The idea of making a double project was never planned or premeditated, it just happened. I found myself writing 60 songs and put myself on the mission of selecting my favorite ones, which happened to be 20. And those 20 songs formed this project, Oral Fixation Vol. 1 and 2."|source= – Shakira talking about both albums.<ref name="mtv">{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1503856/shakiras-oral-fixation-was-not-premeditated.jhtml|title=Shakira Says Her Oral Fixation Was Not Premeditated|first=James|last=Montgomery|publisher=[[MTV News]]/[[Viacom (2005–present)|Viacom]]|date=9 June 2005|access-date=23 May 2013|archive-date=16 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191216203154/http://www.mtv.com/news/1503856/shakira-says-her-oral-fixation-was-not-premeditated/|url-status=
After achieving international success in 2001 with her first English album, ''[[Laundry Service (album)|Laundry Service]]'', Shakira released a Spanish-language record as its followup (her first since 1998's ''[[Dónde Están los Ladrones?]]''). Having co-written nearly sixty songs for the project, she decided to divide the release into two volumes and put herself "on the mission of selecting [her] favorite ones" to record. ''Fijación Oral, Vol. 1'' contains all Spanish-language songs and ''[[Oral Fixation, Vol. 2]]'' features all English-language tracks.<ref name="NotPremeditated">{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1503856/shakira-says-her-oral-fixation-was-not-premeditated/|title=Shakira Says Her Oral Fixation Was Not Premeditated|first=James|last=Montgomery|publisher=[[MTV News]]|date=9 June 2005|access-date=23 May 2013|archive-date=26 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140526161227/http://www.mtv.com/news/1503856/shakira-says-her-oral-fixation-was-not-premeditated/|url-status=
For the album, Shakira wrote all the lyrics, and the majority of the music. "To start seeing people's first reactions, and how people start relating to these songs and appreciating every single piece of work I have done over the past two years, is the best reward an artist can have after so much hard work," says Shakira. "I will not lie to you; it was not a path of roses. It was painful at times to come up with two albums, to write more than 60 songs and to fight my own insecurities and doubts."<ref name="songwriting">{{cite web|url=http://www.songwriteruniverse.com/shakira.htm|title=Latin/Pop Star Shakira Discusses Her Two Album Projects: Fijacion Oral, Vol.1, and Oral Fixation, Vol. 2|author=Kristina Weise|work=Songwriter Universe|date=3 January 2006|access-date=2 May 2016|archive-date=11 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160411110259/http://www.songwriteruniverse.com/shakira.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> While speaking about the difference about expressing herself in Spanish and English, Shakira told, "When I express myself in Spanish, I find elements that help me express an idea in perhaps a different way than when I do it in English. There are different aesthetics, but there is a certain style to the way I write my own songs, a particular way of describing feelings and emotions that I have developed over all these years making songs. I have gotten in touch with my own gift – I am sure, 10 years ago, I was not half as good as I can say I am today, and I am still not good enough. There is a long way to go."<ref name="songwriting"/>
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