Shakira is in luck. This morning the artist released her new album, Las mujeres ya no lollen, a special album for her due to everything she has experienced during the last year.
In an interview she gave to Apple Music 1, the artist opened up and explained that singing has been her outlet and escape route in recent months: ”I heal myself through this music, and I still heal. I am healing. It is a process, but without a doubt music has played a very therapeutic role. I say that when I write music it’s like going to the therapist, but cheaper. And it helps you exercise a lot of intense emotions and feelings that would otherwise just fossilize.”
In the conversation with the aforementioned media, Shakira also reflected on what her experience has been like when it comes to combining her artistic career with her family life. While before she felt guilty, now that she is single she is unleashing her creativity.
”There were moments I didn’t really enjoy, I felt guilty, torn, Now it feels totally different. Although now it is more difficult because I am now in charge of two children, who depend a lot on me. “I’m a single mother, I don’t have a husband at home to help with anything, in a way it’s good not to have a husband, because I don’t know why it worked against me, very badly,” explained the woman from Barranquilla in the interview, making it clear that her separation of Gerard Piqué has brought him good things.
She also stated that, although she acts from the heart and is very happy, it is hard to be a single mother and depend solely and exclusively on herself when it comes to caring for the little ones: ”Sometimes I don’t even go to sleep until It’s your bedtime. That’s what I do because I want to spend time with my kids and put them to bed and then I pass out. “It’s the first time I’ve really had to deal with so much as a single mother.”
Her divorce, the move to the United States, her children’s adaptation to a new country, the media pressure… Shakira has managed to deal with countless difficult situations successfully while working on one of her best albums to date, something for which she feels especially proud.
During the last hours, thousands of people from all over the globe have dedicated messages and comments of support, affection and congratulations to Shakira for the new album, but we still have to wait a little to see the magnitude of the album’s success in terms of numbers. and commercial purposes are concerned.