Since Imperio Argentina starred The counterfeit coin in the movie light brunette (In the case in point, Clara is blonde) Until the single Shakira released this Wednesday, it was 87 years. A period of time in which spite has been the seed of dozens of songs, poems, novels, and films. If one prefers to choose revenge as a creative engine, the figure is incomprehensible: after all, the periphrasis of “taking revenge” sounds more dignified, more transcendental, than that of “spite” however motivated, understandable and justified it may be.
BZRP Music Sessions #53 will go down in pop music history not so much for its quality but for its the full nude that its author and interpreter – here the Argentine DJ Bizarrap seems to be a necessary sidekick – shares with his fans and, in short, with all those who know of his breakup simply by having eyes and ears. We talked about it for months. Anyone not aware of the details and now wanting to join the social agenda or curiosity, can click here to join the nearly 30 million people who have already heard the song.
Between Shakira’s interview with ELLE last September and the lyrics to BZRP Music Sessions #53, something happened inside her. This is the only way to explain why she suddenly unleashed, like Zeus released the Kraken, the rage accumulated since June 4, 2022. It’s within her rights but… Not like this, Shakira, not like this.
Of course, the artist has every right to compose and interpret the song she likes, it just lacked, but since then it is not a private diary or leaked sketches but a commercial product covered by a successful international campaignthe right unfolds in bilateral and that of opinion is contained in article 20.1.a, paragraph 1, chapter 2, title I of our Constitution. An indisputable visa to make the following appreciations.
An artist is free to choose the way he decides to pay the bill: he can sing The best of your life with half-closed eyes while stroking her midriff or she can sing #53 with a lot of clamor and banging her head. He can remain almost static wearing a blue shirt and white trousers, entrusting everything to a single voice, or show off an undeniable sensuality in purple underwear. But we’re not talking about aesthetics here –Elvis hasn’t stopped being ‘the king’ in a sunset fondon and impossible costumes– but of the content, of the letter, of the message. And in that sense and that only, you can be Julio Iglesias or Shakira. It can be elegant or not.
Perhaps clouded by anger, Shakira has not considered the consequences that this song, destined to become one of her greatest hits, can have on her children. Milan and Sasha. You can not go back: the children will have to deal with a mother who skinned their father (senseless, childish, unworthy of her) and her grandmother in front of a potential audience of 8 billion people. This is so.
And if in time Clara Chía becomes something more than Piqué’s young girlfriend and wins the love of both, how can she combine this feeling with the contempt for her that her mother has made public? For Shakira will never stop being a Twingo, a Casio. She is said, she is sung. And this side effect of the nuclear bomb that Shakira dropped last night, how her children will absorb so much anger, it is much more important than the number of views on YouTube.
The phrase “Women don’t cry anymore, women bill” contains several possibilities. One of them is that she refers to herself rubbing her ex that she intends to make a living off this success and those to come, but dealing with the discretionary fire that opens later, we are inclined to believe that she accuses Clara Chía of climbing, upstart, interested or scoop. There are more rude epithets that we will ignore.
It was necessary to involve young people in a matter involving only two people? If a couple breaks up because of a third party, the problem remains exclusively with the (now) ex partner, whether the third party is a possible whirlwind or ephemeral like a drunkenness or someone who makes you change your mind in love enough to stop. all in hell
In response to Article 20.1.a of the EC, we dare to point out that using such a crude metaphor as I’m a Ferrari and the other is a Twingo, I’m a Rolex and the other is a Casio, it’s closer to a school brawl than a blockbuster of Shakira’s international stature. And even more reprehensible is the classist and absolutely reifying background of the confrontation.
For the rest, there are strong contradictions in his message: from the obviousness of it “No hard feelings baby” at the thinnest “I won’t come back here, I don’t want another disappointment” versus “I’m not going back with you anymore, neither crying nor begging me”. Are we to assume that she and Gerard Piqué will never be together again, not so much because she has stopped loving him but because she doesn’t trust him? Of course, we insist, this is a free evaluation. Maybe it’s a rhyme thing. The second sentence could be uttered by someone after hearing their partner’s devastating statement “Honey, I’m sorry but I met someone” answer back “Hey? I eat! Well, I break up with you”. More so, when the ex-footballer didn’t consider for a nanosecond in the metaverse to try to rebuild his relationship with the singer.
But the deepest contradiction is offered by his own biography. When Shakira met Gerard Piqué, she was in a relationship with Antonio de la Rúa, son of the former president of Argentina. Childless but long-lived like the one that is now broken. The singer met the footballer at a concert in June 2010 and fell in love with him during a summer of love – the 2010 World Cup in South Africa – which also gave us Iker Casillas’ kiss to Sara Carbonero.
In the months that followed, the press set to work to find out if Shakira and Piqué were already living together in some secret location in the province of Barcelona and in November she went on to describe what was an open secret as a “waka-rumor”. . It was only in January of the following year that released a statement formalizing his break with De la Rúa. Neither then nor in the last twelve years has Antonio spoken ill of Shakira.
Nor was Gerard Piqué free when Shakira fell in love with him. He had a relationship of more than three years with Nuria Tomás. Neither then nor during the twelve years that passed, Nuria never spoke ill of Piqué. In fact, neither bad nor good: At the time, she was turning down countless interviews about it and turned them down again when her ex and Shakira broke up last June. A couple of years or three after Piqué had left her for the Colombian artist and the pain had passed, that company found her in the village of the Conde de Godó Tennis Trophy and asked her if she had forgiven the boy of she. “Of course. How not to understand it… If my brother also has a poster of Shakira in his room”.
It can be elegant. Of course it can.
By Andrés Guerra, The Vanguard
Source: Clarin
