“I would tell Shakira who started making this album to look to the future, because what’s coming is very good.” This is how Shakira addressed her past self, the offended, hurt and betrayed woman who sang to her ex-partner and father of her two children, Gerard Piqué, as therapy after a traumatic breakup. The Colombian singer presented her new album, Las mujeres ya no lloran, at the Hard Rock Hotel in Miami on Thursday night.
“The production of this work has been an alchemical process. Writing each song I rebuilt myself. When I sang them, the tears turned into diamonds, and my vulnerability into resilience”, confessed the artist from Barranquilla, who added: “I heal myself through this music and I’m still healing myself”. In addition to the songs directed at Piqué, the album, the first in seven years, includes eight new tracks. Among which, the song Última, with which he puts an end to his musical venting for the separation of the ex-footballer in 2022.
In an interview with Apple Music 1, Shakira confessed what her life is like as a single mother: “I don’t have a husband at home to help me with anything. In a way, it’s good not to have a husband because that, I don’t know why, dragged me. Yesterday I arrived home at seven in the morning. My children were already waiting for me, so I had breakfast with them and stayed awake. Sometimes I don’t even go to bed until it’s time for her to go to bed. This is what I do because I want to spend time with my children and accompany them to sleep and then I pass out.”
He also shared the lesson he learned from his breakup: “It’s better to trust even if you’re betrayed than never to trust at all.” In this sense, he assured that he teaches his children that “there are many more good people in the world and it is worth it. It’s worth loving. Love is the most incredible experience a human being can have.” And he was grateful for the friendships he has. “I love love, but I think I even love friendship a little more. Because I thought love would always be there for me and this is one of my broken dreams. I don’t know if I will find him again. Probably not, I don’t know. But friendship, yes.”
