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Shakira puts herself first.
On March 22, the “Hips Don’t Lie” singer will release her 12th studio album, “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran,” which comes seven years after she released “El Dorado” in 2017.
During a new interview with sunday weatherShakira said her new album, which translates in English as “Women No Longer Cry,” is a mix of pop, rap, reggaeton and more genres.
“Women No Longer Cry” represents “the transformation of pain into creativity, frustration into productivity, anger into passion, vulnerability into resilience,” Shakira said in the interview published on March 16.
“There were so many pieces of my life that fell apart in front of my eyes and I had to rebuild myself somehow, picking up the bones from the ground and putting them all together. And the glue that held it all together was music,” he said.
One difficulty that Shakira experienced in her life was her audience. He separated from former footballer Gerard Piqué.
Shakira said she put her career on the back burner to be with him.
“For a long time I put my career on hold to be by Gerard’s side so he could play football,” he said. “There was a lot of sacrifice for love.”
In June 2022, Shakira and Piqué announced that they were separating After 11 years together. A few months later, Piqué was Instagram Official with Clara Chía Martí.
Shakira talked about her breakup with Piqué in the January 2023 song “Shakira: Bzrp Musical Sessions, Vol. 53″, which won its song of the year at the Latin Grammy 2023. “Women don’t cry anymore” is notably a lyric from the song.
In the Spanish song, Shakira sings, “I was out of your league, that’s why you’re/With someone like you, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh.”
He also apparently referenced his ex’s new relationship, saying: “I’m worth two 22-year-olds/You traded a Ferrari for a Twingo/You traded a Rolex for a Casio.”
Shakira and Piqué share two children, Milan and Sasha. When asked what her children thought about the song, Shakira told the Sunday Times that her children “know that there is only one way to live life and that is to accept the pain. And each of us has different ways of dealing with it.” do it”.
He noted that Milan also chose to express himself through music.
“When his father and I were going through the separation, he wrote two incredible songs, the kind that make you cry,” she said.
Reflecting on “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53”, which many fans consider a diss track, Shakira said that it helped her “exorcise a lot of the demons that were tormenting me. And it felt good.”
This article was originally published in TODAY.com