"No Creo" is a song written and performed by the Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

n singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 Shakira

Shakira

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll , known professionally as Shakira , is a Colombian singer who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s...

. The song was released as a single

Single (music)

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 from her multi-platinum album

Album

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 Dónde Están los Ladrones? (1998) and later from her acoustic

Acoustic music

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 performance of the song on the MTV

MTV

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 show Unplugged

MTV Unplugged (Shakira album)

Bonus Features# Timeline# Albums# Photo Gallery# Making Of - Chart Performance :- Sales and certifications :- Awards :- Credits :* Shakira - Producer, songwriter, arranger, lead vocals, harmonica, guitar....

(2000). On the song, the singer express how she believes in nothing (and nobody) except true love. The song references popular socially accepted or non-accepted norms such as herself, luck

Luck

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, Karl Marx

Karl Marx

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, Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre

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, Mars

Mars

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 and Venus

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, and Brian Weiss

Brian Weiss

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Music video

The video was shot in January 1999 and begins in a room, where Shakira jumps out of a window into a grassland where eccentric people are present. She scratches the ceiling of a room, goes through dark rooms, riots, swims through a washing room. The video is also present in her hit, "Ciega, Sordomuda

Ciega, Sordomuda

"Ciega, Sordomuda" is a Latin pop song written and performed by Colombian-born singer Shakira, released as the first single from her 1998 multi-platinum album Dónde Están los Ladrones?....

", which therefore sparked rumors some scenes were shot back-to-back with "Ciega, Sordomuda".

Charts

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Chart (1999)	Peak position