My Proust muffin was potatoes that Grandma Angelina fried in roast sauce. Grandfather Joan’s legacy was what I have tried to follow in my life: that of working with rights and duties. Grandparents have been part of my childhood while my mother took care of them all, as they got sicker and I learned that to live too much is to always be alone, despite my mother’s efforts to make it not so.
I haven’t lost my childhood because my grandparents are there in it, just as I hope my daughters keep the best moments of their children’s education in their memory box.
Life has obstacles and the death of grandparents is a difficult one to overcome because it represents emptiness. This is why the legacy is so important and the memories can only be kept in the box by the children.
I can understand Shakira’s anger at the televised spite of her partner, even if grandparents Montse and Joan are two beasts of the Apocalypse (I highly doubt, for example, that a 666 at home will turn into a 10 helping people with severed spinal cord to improve their lives).
The first song with Bizarapp (a great track by the way) seemed like a bad testament to her years with Piqué, putting a poor girl in a shoebox for the simple fact of having fallen in love with her husband and being reciprocated. But there was a second, a third with her children singing and playing the piano and we hoped that the pain would end once and for all. But no.
In an incomprehensible rant she forgot how important the grandmother was in her projection, introducing her to Arab dances or the value she herself gives to her family and wrote in the last song a bomb against the box of memories of his two children. “There is no evil that lasts a hundred years, but there is still my father-in-law who does not step on the grave”, recites Shakira in the fourth song, by far the worst, from the collection La revenja.
There is no cruelty more intolerable than to leave in writing the death of a grandfather. In her vindictive – musical exaggeration, where she didn’t cry but she paid, no one explained to the singer that grandparents are untouchable… In fact, Shakira’s problem is that she has many people around but few who love her really and that it helps him, not to bill more, but to learn to brake in time.
