{"id":5035,"date":"2024-03-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwjqp1.com\/shakira-interview-las-mujeres-ya-no-lloran-33b7242747f3e919a0388027f3c44c5d\/"},"modified":"2024-03-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T00:00:00","slug":"shakira-interview-las-mujeres-ya-no-lloran-33b7242747f3e919a0388027f3c44c5d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwjqp1.com\/shakira-interview-las-mujeres-ya-no-lloran-33b7242747f3e919a0388027f3c44c5d\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&A: How Shakira turned pain into art on her first album in seven years, 'Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran'"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Shakira<\/a>, the boundary-breaking Colombian performer, has been remarkably consistent since beginning her career in the early \u201890s. Without fail, she toured, released albums, won awards, woven global, genre-defying sounds into her pioneering singles, performed at the Super Bowl halftime show<\/a> and more. Then, things slowed. Or so it appeared.<\/p>\n

In reality, the last few years haven\u2019t been kind to Shakira. In 2022, after 11 years and two children together, she separated from soccer player Gerard Piqu\u00e9, leading to what she\u2019s called the \u201cdissolution of my family.\u201d She faced charges of tax evasion in Spain<\/a>; in November 2023, she received a suspended three-year sentence and paid a fine of 7.3 million euros<\/a> ($8 million) in addition to previously unpaid taxes and interest.<\/p>\n

On \u201cLas Mujeres Ya No Lloran,\u201d her first new album in seven years, Shakira transforms her pain into art \u2014 from the bachata \u201cMonoton\u00eda\u201d to the electro-pop \u201cTe Felicito\u201d to the mega viral \u201cShakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53\u201d and beyond.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been through so much in these past few years that I had to literally pick up the pieces of myself and put them back together,\u201d Shakira told The Associated Press over Zoom from Miami. \u201cAnd during that process, I think that music was the glue.\u201d<\/p>\n

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What to stream this weekend: Shakira, Paul Simon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Kristen Wiig and Princess Peach<\/a><\/p>\n

This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.<\/p>\n

AP: It has been seven years since your last album, \u201cEl Dorado.\u201d What did you learn about yourself, musically, in that time?<\/h2>\n

SHAKIRA: Well, in those seven years I\u2019ve been raising kids, I\u2019ve been learning a lot about myself as a mother, as a woman. But I\u2019ve also been making music. It\u2019s just that it\u2019s been more of a sporadic thing, you know, here and there. Whenever I had a chance to put out a song, I did that. But I didn\u2019t have the time to really put a whole body of work. This time, it was a compulsion and a need. It was really important for me to be able to express, in and through these songs, so many life experiences and to find catharsis, you know, and to be able to find the therapeutic effects of writing and see myself back in the studio. <\/p>\n

AP: You\u2019ve called \u201cLas Mujeres Ya No Lloran\u201d a concept album. What story is it telling? <\/h2>\n

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SHAKIRA: Because there\u2019s a great diversity in this album \u2014 I know it\u2019s a conceptual album \u2014 but it didn\u2019t happen on purpose. Nobody chooses to go through the kind of life experiences that I went through when I was writing and creating this album, you know, life gives you lemons. So what do you do? Make lemonade. So I made songs. But there is a great variety within this album. There\u2019s pop, there\u2019s Afrobeat, there\u2019s reggaeton. There\u2019s some Mexican regionals as well. Rock. But there is a common thread. And that is based off of genuine, authentic life experiences and the process of elaborating those intense emotions and feelings that I\u2019ve been having to deal with during this past couple of years. <\/p>\n

AP: You\u2019re no stranger to embracing global sounds. On this album, you worked with Grupo Frontera and Fuerza Regida \u2014 two regional Mexican artists<\/a> who are bringing their music to the global stage. That\u2019s something you know a thing or two about.<\/h2>\n

SHAKIRA: When I first started out in this industry, it was predominantly male. It was difficult for a Colombian girl. I had to knock (on) so many doors, just do a lot of convincing. Convince all the gatekeepers, the directors of radio stations who would decide back in the day, who would like what music would get programmed, what music wouldn\u2019t. <\/p>\n

But now it is different, you know, now people decide for themselves. I think music has been democratized in a way. And that\u2019s why, Latin artists have really, found a platform for their music not like it was 10, 20 years ago… And now, Latin artists have a lot more opportunities. And it\u2019s true that the Mexican regional artists are also among that group of artists that are now being played in so many more stations in Colombia and other places of the world and here in the United States as well. <\/p>\n

Mexico has been such an important part of my career. It\u2019s a country that I owe so much to. And it\u2019s been just a wonderful experience to be able to collaborate with some Mexican artists as well on this album. It\u2019s my small homage to Mexican music, that genre and to the Mexican people.<\/p>\n

AP: \u201cShe Wolf\u201d turns 15 this year. As a listener, that album felt like a shift in your career \u2014 and so does this one. Do you see parallels?<\/h2>\n

SHAKIRA: I do, because it is the renaissance of the \u201cShe Wolf,\u201d in a way. It is the rebirth of that primal force that I feel that all women have within ourselves. It\u2019s that force that allows us to give birth, feed our offsprings, guarantee their survival of their species, fight whatever fight we have to fight against.<\/p>\n

I had to resort to that She Wolf within me to be able to survive.<\/p>\n

I was in a fight or flight sort of mode for a while and I think it is that She Wolf\u201d within us women today that is taking society to where it\u2019s going, you know, at the moment. Women are natural multitaskers. We can do everything. We can really survive wars and rebuild cities after they\u2019re destroyed. So, my life was in pieces after, you know, the dissolution of my family, and so many other things that I had to go through. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s why this album is called \u201cWomen No Longer Cry.\u201d Because I feel that women, you know, for ages have been sent to cry with a script in their hands. And just because we women conceal our emotions in front of our kids and just show good manners and accept it all, and now it\u2019s different. I think that as women now we decide when to cry, when not to cry and how to do it, if we decide to cry. So, it\u2019s like no one has to tell us how to heal.<\/p>\n

AP: I haven\u2019t seen anyone refer to this as a \u201cdivorce album.\u201d<\/a><\/h2>\n

SHAKIRA: This is not a divorce album. It\u2019s an album that gathers many different life experiences, that gathers the transformation of vulnerability into resilience, the empowerment of finding your strength.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t only talk about pain; it also talks about triumph. And that\u2019s why these tears are not tears made of resentment anger or just sadness, but tears of triumph and tears of self-recognition and finding confidence within. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not linear. There\u2019s ups and downs and valleys and peaks. And this album is made of all of those dynamics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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