Moscas en la Casa | |
Cover: | Moscasenlacasa.jpg |
Caption: | Artwork used for promotional US CD single |
Type: | single |
Language: | Spanish |
Artist: | Shakira |
Album: | Dónde Están los Ladrones? |
Recorded: | 1998; Crescent Moon Studios |
Genre: | Latin pop |
Length: | 3:31 |
Label: | Sony Colombia |
Prev Title: | Ojos Así |
Prev Year: | 1999 |
Next Title: | Whenever, Wherever |
Next Year: | 2001 |
"Moscas en la Casa" is a song by the Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira, released as the sixth and final single from her fourth studio album Dónde Están los Ladrones? (1998). A Latin pop ballad, Shakira explains the sadness that she feels after a broken relationship and how she has let herself go, while she continues to wait for him to come back. "Moscas en la Casa" was released as a radio-only single. The song did not receive a music video, however, a performance from the live album MTV Unplugged was released instead.
"Moscas en la Casa" was released in 1999 as the sixth single from the album.[1] Shakira wrote the song for Puerto Rican telenovela actor Osvaldo Ríos, her boyfriend at the time for who she also had written the songs "Tú" and "Ojos Así".[2] [3]
The music video for the song is actually a recording from her first live album MTV Unplugged which was recorded in New York City in 1999.[4]