Can't Remember To Forget You - Shakira ft. Rihanna
Experience: Shakira and Rihanna sing about love when things go wrong, when you've been let down... but you still love. You can't forget... and you don't know if you can forgive. You don't want to leave. But maybe you should...
Music Video: Like the single artwork, the video itself goes heavily lesbian, with the camera focusing almost exclusively on Shakira and Rihanna's bodies... together. And that's unfortunate, because the visuals - some of them no more than up close twerking so up close that all you can see is writhing butt - create a huge disconnect with the very real experience that the lyrics allude to, and that a lot more people could have identified with. The message of the song itself gets lost in the music video.
LYRICS:
[Shakira]
I left a note on my bedpost
Said not to repeat
Yesterday's mistakes
What I tend to do
When it comes to you
I see only the good
Selective memory
The way you make me feel, yeah
Gotta hold on me
I've never met someone so different
Oh here we go
You're a part of me now
You're a part of me
So where you go I follow, follow, follow
Oh, oh, oooh, oh
Oh, oh, oooh, oh
I can't remember to forget you
Oh, oh, oooh, oh
Oh, oh, oooh, oh
I keep forgetting I should let you go
But when you look at me
The only memory is us kissing in the moonlight
Oh, oh, oooh, oh
Oh, oh, oooh, oh
I can't remember to forget you
I can't remember to forget you
[Rihanna]
I go back again
Fall off the train
Land in his bed
Repeat yesterday's mistakes
What I'm trying to say is not to forget
You see only the good, selective memory
The way he makes me feel like
The way he makes me feel
I never seem to act so stupid
Oh here we go
You're a part of me now
You're a part of me
So where he goes I follow
[Chorus]
Oh, oh, oooh, oh
Oh, oh, oooh, oh
I can't remember to forget you
Oh, oh, oooh, oh
Oh, oh, oooh, oh
I keep forgetting I should let you go
But when you look at me
The only memory is us kissing in the moonlight
Oh, oh, oooh, oh
Oh, oh, oooh, oh
I can't remember to forget you
I rob and I kill to keep him with me
I'd do anything for that boy
I'd give my last dime to hold him tonight
I'd do anything for that boy
I rob and I kill to keep him with me
I'd do anything for that boy
I'd give my last dime to hold him tonight
I'd do anything for that boy
Oh, oh, oooh, oh
Oh, oh, oooh, oh
I can't remember to forget you
Oh, oh, oooh, oh
Oh, oh, oooh, oh
I keep forgetting I should let you go
But when you look at me
The only memory is us kissing in the moonlight
Oh, oh, oooh, oh
Oh, oh, oooh, oh
I can't remember to forget you
But when you look at me
The only memory is us kissing in the moonlight
Oh, oh, oooh, oh
Oh, oh, oooh, oh
I can't remember to forget you