The best albums of the year debated. - By Jon Caramanica, Ann Powers, Jody Rosen, and Carl Wilson - Slate Magazine
Wayne Rooney  |  by www.slate.com. All rights reserved. 29.12 | 14:11

Jon Caramanica is the music editor of Vibe magazine. Ann Powers is the chief pop-music critic of the Los Angeles Times. Her most recent book is Tori Amos: Piece By Piece, co-authored with the artist.

Jody Rosen is Slate's music critic. Carl Wilson writes for Canada's national newspaper, the Globe and Mail, and blogs at .


Hello all,
Boy, did Ann deepen my grief at having missed Shakira's Madison Square Garden show this past September.

In 2006, the Colombian-Lebanese firecracker seemed more unstoppable than ever. Miraculously, she made Wyclef Jean , and her music, more than any other superstar's, is pointing the way to pop's globalized future: blithely genre-mashing, Spanish accented but proudly polylingual, intensely rhythmic. The only comparable figure is Manu Chao, the Spanish-born, Paris-bred global nomad whose was the best I saw all year.

At the pre-show press conference, Chao fielded questions in four languages, sloganeering and shouting out Joe Strummer and Subcomandante Marcos like a lefty of the old school.

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