Shakira’s first message after the release of her song
The Colombian artist has shared two screenshots of an editorial from a media outlet in her country that highlights her courage and how she has been an example for women.
Shakira’s new song with Bizarrap, Music Session 53, has become the song of the year, and the conversation on social media is exploding.
The song has reached number one in dozens of countries, and there remain only a few who have not reacted to the messages that the Colombian directs to Gerard Piqué and his current partner, Clara Chía.
Today, Shakira broke her silence by sharing an article from a Colombian media outlet that defends her artistic expression.
The woman from Barranquilla has shared on her Instagram profile two paragraphs from the editorial published by the Colombian portal El Heraldo.
The piece opens by asking a question: “If revenge is a dish that is served cold, especially when it originates from a love disappointment of a colossal dimension, with what moral authority or intellectual superiority do inquisitive upstarts of the 21st century dare to tell a full-fledged woman that she has suffered the offense?”
Shakira uploaded two screenshots from the Spanish-language piece that we will break down below.
In the first one, the author endorses the argument that no one should tell a person who is suffering how to act, regardless of if that person is Shakira “or the anonymous daughter of a neighbor.”
For those who think they can pass judgment on how people react to trauma in their life, the author argues that they should “understand that for once and for all that the times of self-righteousness in which dirty laundry is washed at home are long gone.” The author sees Shakira’s new song as an artistic expression that rejects machismo and the expectation that women deal with infidelity quietly over the risk of being canceled.
The "talented fury" for his revenge against Piqué
The second image shared by Shakira follows the same line and highlights that for some, “Shakira’s autobiographical proclamation is uncomfortable,” but that’s “what artists do and she is.”
For the author, Shakira’s new song represents a “relentless diva” breaking “the mold about the convenient silences around the breakups of famous and wealthy couples.” The pop star is also defended, writing that there is “nothing more epic than taking revenge with talented fury after loving without limits and being betrayed.”
The author ends the text by placing the Colombian woman as an example for women and stresses that the singer has pointed out “a path that it is difficult for many of her followers to retrace.”