Creating her new Spanish-language album helped Shakira “reunite all the pieces that had fallen apart” in the wake of her separation with Gerard Piqué.
The pair were in a relationship between 2011 and 2022 and share two sons together, named Milan and Sasha.
In June 2022, they confirmed in a joint statement that they were separating and on her latest LP ‘Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran’ (Women No Longer Cry), Shakira works through many of the emotions she experienced at that time on tracks such as the diss track Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53 and Monotonía, her first post-breakup release.
Speaking in a new interview with Allure, the Colombian star explains: “I want this music to build bridges, to empower people, to help women discover their own strengths.
“I was in the mud. I had to reconstruct myself, to reunite all the pieces that had fallen apart.”
On how the creative process behind the 16-track LP helped her to heal, she continues: “Making this music has shown me that my pain can be transformed into creativity
“The songs are full of anecdotes and some very intense emotions I have experienced in these two years. But creating this album has been a transformation in which I have been reborn as a woman.
“I have rebuilt myself in the ways I believe are appropriate. No one tells me how to cry or when to cry, no one tells me how to raise my children, no one tells me how I become a better version of myself. I decide that.”
