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It can also be noted that the video for "La Tortura" was one of the first in the Spanish-language to get heavy rotation on mainstream American and Canadian music channels such as MTV, VH1 and MuchMusic as in all almost over world Yahoo! sites. It was also the second Spanish-language video ever to enter in Total Request Live's countdown, and peaked at number four on the countdown.
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The music video is in itself somewhat notable, as it was the first time MTV showed a whole episode of their Making the Video series in another language (with English subtitles). The choreography of the music video was made by Jamie King and Shakira herself.
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From that moment on, Sanz remembers things the two had done in the past as a couple, while Shakira reveals her alter-ego dancing erotically on the building's roof, covered with black paint. When Shakira enters her apartment, she changes clothes. The music video for "La Tortura", directed by Michael Haussman, has a simple plot: from his new girlfriend's apartment, Sanz spies on Shakira as she is walking down the street holding a bag of onions on her way to her own apartment, which is on the other side of the street from Sanz' girlfriend's apartment. Shakira and Alejandro Sanz in "La Tortura" video. The single is Shakira's sixth in the United States, following the commercial success of her 2001 English language album Laundry Service. However, at the end of the song, Shakira's character humiliates him and says that she is not going to shed a single tear over him. He apologizes extravagantly, but is ultimately thinking that some infidelity is natural for men and that for the woman not to forgive him would be tiresome and unreasonable. It tells the story of a woman who has been emotionally "tortured" because her boyfriend cheated and eventually left her for another, and has now returned begging forgiveness. The single is a duet between Shakira and Spanish balladeer Alejandro Sanz, both of whom also composed it along with Luis Fernando Ochoa. "La Tortura" is currently the highest-selling only-Spanish language digital track in United States at over 1,000,000 downloads and the biggest-selling Spanish language track of the decade with sales of over 5 million copies worldwide. The song was number 1 on the Hot Latin Songs for 25 weeks during 2005, and was the biggest selling song of the year on that chart. The song won two Latin Grammy Awards at the 2006 Ceremony for Song of the Year and Record of the Year. The song achieved large-scale success on different radio and chart formats, becoming the most famous spanish language track of both singers worldwide and the sixth most successful song in Shakira's career behind " Hips Don't Lie", " Whenever, Wherever", " Underneath Your Clothes", " She Wolf", and " Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)" and the most successful song ever for Alejandro Sanz. It was recorded for Shakira's sixth studio album FijaciĆ³n Oral Vol. " La Tortura" (English: The Torture) is a latin pop-reggaeton song performed by Shakira and Alejandro Sanz.