A weight has been lifted from Shakira, and resulted in some record-breaking new songs. The 47-year-old Colombian superstar has released his new album, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloranwhich translates as “women don’t cry anymore”, last Friday and has already become the most streamed album of the year.
On Mondays The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonShakira explained the meaning behind the album title.
“For too long we have been sent to cry with a script in our hands and never ending just because we are women,” she said. “We have to hide our pain in front of our children, in front of society. We have to heal in a certain way. And I don’t think anyone should tell us how to heal. No one should tell a she’s a wolf how to lick her wounds, You know? I think now women decide when to cry, how to cry and until when. No one should tell us how to deal with life’s difficulties.
Shakira, who split from longtime love Gerard Piqué in 2022, poked fun at the painful split, saying it gave her time to focus on her craft.
“I didn’t have time because of the husband factor. Now I have no husband,” she joked. “Yes, husband was dragging me down. Now I’m free. Now I can actually work.”
She noted that while mourning the end of the relationship, which produced her two children — Milan, 11, and Sasha, 9 — she turned to music, calling it “the glue.”
“Each of these songs really felt like a catharsis for me, and I felt better and better every time I wrote something,” she shared.
She also features her children on the album, joking that they are “asking for royalties” so that one day they can save up to buy a car.
Shakira further explained her new vision for making music during a recent interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music 1 saying, “Now it feels totally different. Still, it’s more challenging because now I’m responsible for these two children, these two babies who depend on me so much. And I’m a single mother, I don’t have a husband at home to help with anything. Of In a way, it’s good that I don’t have a husband because this… I don’t know why this was dragging me down, man. Now I feel like working. I feel like writing songs. I feel like making music. It’s a compulsive need. mine that I didn’t feel before.
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