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El próximo viernes 22 de marzo Shakira saca nuevo disco, el primero en siete años. El título del mismo hace referencia a su gran éxito de la mano del productor musical Bizarrap, Las mujeres ya no lloran, lo que desde luego puede dar pistas sobre el tono del mismo. Por si hubiera alguna duda, la cantante colombiana, afincada en Miami desde abril de 2023, ha comenzado con la gira promocional de su álbum mediante entrevistas donde no se muerde la lengua. En la última, concedida a The Times el pasado sábado, la artista habla de su nuevo proyecto y su nueva vida en la ciudad de Florida, pero también de su ex, Gerard Piqué, desde el titular: “Puse en pausa mi carrera por Gerard Piqué”.
Las mujeres ya no lloran, según anticipan en The Times, es “una mezcla emocional, estridente y vulnerable, que oscila entre el pop, el rap, el reggaeton y la balada”. Para Shakira “representa la transformación del dolor en creatividad, la frustración en productividad, la ira en pasión y la vulnerabilidad en resiliencia”, según cuenta al medio británico a través de Zoom desde su cocina de Miami. “Hubo tantas piezas en mi vida que se desmoronaron frente a mis ojos que tuve que reconstruirme de alguna manera, recogiendo los huesos del suelo y juntándolos todos. Y el pegamento que lo mantuvo todo unido fue la música”, asegura. Shakira no publica un álbum desde El Dorado, en 2017. Sí ha lanzado canciones sueltas estos últimos años, con especial intensidad desde su ruptura con el exjugador del Barcelona, que anunciaron mediante un comunicado en junio de 2022. Desde entonces, todos los temas que ha publicado tratan alguna circunstancia de su convivencia en pareja y separación, y siempre las ha interpretado en compañía: Te felicito (con Rauw Alejandro), Monotonía (con Ozuna), TQR (con Karol G.), Acróstico (con sus dos hijos), Copa vacía (con Manuel Turizo), El Jefe (con Fuerza Regida) y la que comparte con Bizarrap, la más exitosa de todas.
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Shakira and Gerard Piqué had one of the most public and explicit breakups in the celebrity universe in recent years.
In times of joint statements on Instagram and subtle “irreconcilable differences” leaked to the press through agents, the artist did not hesitate to tell her story, not directly to the media, but through Session 53
with
Bizarrap .
This song led the singer to win a Latin Grammy, an award she received from Sergio Ramos, former Real Madrid player, something that seems to the artist: “A cosmic joke,” she says in the interview with
The Times
.
She admits that this revenge in musical form helped her “exorcise a lot of demons that were tormenting me... and it felt good.”
In the middle of all this commotion are the two children that the couple have in common, Milan, 11, and Sasha, 9. The question of how these letters could have affected them is natural.
Shakira responds without remorse: “They know that there is only one way to live life and that is to accept pain.
And each of us has different ways of doing it.”
For the singer, the formula consists of writing songs, and the same for Milan: “When his father and I were going through our separation, he wrote two incredible songs, the kind that make you cry,” admits the Colombian.
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He also acknowledges the reasons why it has taken so long to release a new album.
And they also have to do with his ex-partner: “For a long time I put my career on hold for Gerard Piqué, so that he could play football.
“There is a lot of sacrifice that we make for love.”
The singer, who in Miami moves in the circles of personalities such as the aforementioned Cabello or David and Victoria Beckham, whom she has known, as she says in the interview "before starting a relationship with a Barcelona player", also establishes the differences between an artist and an athlete: “Empathy is key in the work of an artist.
An athlete is in a constant state of war and has to avoid empathy at all costs.
"That's why it's probably a very bad idea for an artist to associate with an athlete."
Despite the title of the album and the series of references she makes to the father of her two children throughout the entire interview, the Colombian artist is ready to close this chapter of her life.
She thus recognizes it when the journalist asks her about the song titled
Última
, a piano ballad that talks about regrets after a breakup.
When asked if the song is also about her ex, she responds: “About Voldemort?
The one who cannot be named?
I hope it's the last song I write about this, and about him."
In fact, it is the last one on the new album: “I felt like there was still something there, stuck in my throat, and I needed to get it out.
I played it to Sony's head of
marketing
and he started crying.
“I had never seen a man cry in my studio before.”
The journalist also asks the singer, who at all times appears open and fun when discussing these topics, about that rumor that appeared in several media during the murky breakup with Piqué: that she had discovered the infidelity when she returned home. and discovered that the jam that only she consumed was emptier than when she left, because it was supposedly consumed by the soccer player's lover.
“That's not true,” she now responds bluntly.
What he does not talk about, supposedly for legal reasons, is his problems with the Treasury in Spain.
Shakira accepted last November that she had defrauded the Spanish Treasury of 14.5 million euros between 2012 and 2014. After weeks of negotiations, she finally agreed with the accused - the Prosecutor's Office, the State Attorney's Office and the Generalitat - a three-year prison sentence. prison (which he will not comply with) and the payment of a fine of 7.3 million euros.
In exchange for accepting the facts and paying the defrauded fee (she already returned it), the agreement substantially reduced the penalties: the Prosecutor's Office initially requested eight years and two months in prison and a fine of 23.5 million.
The only thing she has mentioned on the subject: “Although I was determined to defend my innocence in a trial that my lawyers were confident would have ruled in my favor, I made the decision to finally resolve this matter taking into account the best interests of my children.” .
Clean slate.
Until this Friday the 22nd, at least.