Shakira released the album “Women don’t cry anymore”

Shakira has released her new album ‘Las mujeres ya no Lloran’, a journey through the vast landscape of Latin American pop and its subgenres, after a time of relief marked by betrayals and challenges that brought her back to her personal and musical essence.

“I would tell Shakira, who started working on this album, to look to the future, because what is coming is very good,” said the Colombian singer at an event at the Hard Rock Hotel, on the outskirts of Miami, where she presented his album. midnight Thursday.

Featuring tracks that have already broken various world records, plus eight new ones, the album, her first in seven years, chronicles Shakira’s complicated split from the father of her children, former Spanish footballer Gerard Piqué, and her subsequent recovery, in what he described as “a conversation ” with his fans.

‘Última’, one of the songs from her twelfth album, Shakira, as she herself announced, is putting an end to her musical pursuits due to breaking up with Piqué in 2022. “I lost my love halfway through” How come you got tired of something so true,” sings the Colombian artist.

‘What happened to us already happened and it didn’t make sense. And if you were confused now, I feel the same way. You will surely regret it in time and one day you will want to knock on my door again. But now I decided to be alone,” she adds in the song.

Cardi B, Karol G, Rauw Alejandro, Ozuna, Manuel Turizo, DJs and producers Bizarrap and Tiësto and regional Mexican groups Grupo Frontera and Fuerza Regida, along with children Milan and Sasha, accompany her on 12 of the 16 songs of the project, in the rhythm of reggaeton , bachata, ballads, EDM, electro and synth-pop, Sierra and urban corridos tumbados and trap.

However, in her four solo songs, ‘Nassau’, ‘Tiempo sin verte’, ‘Where and when’ and ‘La Última’, Shakira (Barranquilla, 1977) returns to her musical essence of international fusion, with melodic power and, in several cases, heartbreaking lyrics and sounds, plus the pop rock that fans who followed her since her first album, ‘Pies descalzos’ (1991), missed so much.

‘Women don’t cry anymore’, the twelfth album of her career, is “conceptual”, developed organically, as Shakira herself says. It is also an album about the stages a broken heart goes through, but also about how it recovers. Not all songs are about heartbreak.

“I hope that this album will be yours and that it will help you transform pain into strength, as it helped me,” Shakira said a few minutes before the official launch of this production, which has already received seven platinum records for songs released as a breakthrough from in 2022

The singer described the project as “a testament to the resilience, empowerment and beauty of female power” during an event at the Hard Rock Hotel, attended by EFE.

Although it is not known whether the order of the songs has meaning, it is clear that the present prevails. The first eight are new, starting with ‘Puntería’, a collaboration with Latin rapper Cardi B.

Next comes ‘La Fuerte’, again with Bizarrap and other new songs. The eight already on the market appear later, in chronological order of release, starting in 2022 with ‘Te felicito’ with Rau Alejandro, with whom he has another song, ‘Cohete’, and in the same year ‘Monotónía’, his bachata with Ozuna.

Already in 2023, he published ‘Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53′, which holds four Guinness World Records for live broadcasts or streaming’ and is also the most viewed Latin song on YouTube in 24 hours, the fastest to reach 100 million views on YouTube, the most listened to on Spotify in 24 hours and the most listened to on Spotify in a week.

It was followed by ‘TQG’ with compatriot Karola G., ‘Copa vaca’ with Manuel Turiz and ‘Acróstico’ in which his children Milan and Sasha sing and play.

Shakira surprised this year with ‘El Jefe’, her first song in the world of Mexican regional music, which was created in collaboration with the Californian band Fuerza Regida.

In the same musical tone is ‘(Entre parentheses)’, one of the new ones, with Grupo Frontera, a band born in Texas in 2019, who became famous for last year’s collaboration with Bad Bunny.

“Closing the album is a remix of Vol.53 in electronic music (EDM) with Dutch DJ and music producer Tiësto, with the triumphant sound of someone who went to hell and came back better than ever and is reclaimed by a war cry for cheated women: ” A wolf like me isn’t for guys like you.” Although she is for the crowd like the one that never left Shakira.