Colombian star Shakira sent social media into a frenzy on Thursday following the release of a song in which she openly settles accounts with her former partner, ex-Spanish footballer Gerard Pique, which has been listened to 34 million times in less than 24 hours and which provokes a cascade of reactions.
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Entitled “BZRP Music Session #53” and written in collaboration with the famous Argentinian producer Bizarrap, the song attacks the father of his two children, but also his new partner, aged 23, the Spaniard Clara Chia.
“A lot of gym, but also work your brain a little”, “You changed a Ferrari for a Twingo”, “A Rolex for a Casio”, “I will not come back to you, even if you cry or beg me” , “I have surpassed you and that’s why you are with someone like you”, she sings on an electronic music tinged with Latin rhythms.
She uses puns with “Piqué” and “Clara” to remove any ambiguity regarding the recipients of her sharp rhymes.
“Yo solo hago musica, perdon que te sal”pique”” (I’m just making music, sorry it splashes on you), she says first, before continuing: “Tiene nom de persona buena, ” Clara”mente no es como suena” (She has the name of a good person, which is clearly not the case).
A communication campaign began the publication of this new planetary hit. Monday, along the beaches of the seaside resort of Mar del Plata, Argentina, a plane towed a banner in the sky with one of the verses of the song: “A wolf like me, not for a guy like you 11.01.23” .
Many comments associated with the song and its music video made it an international trend on social networks where Shakira has tens of millions of subscribers.
This is the third song she has dedicated to the couple’s separation in June, following “Te felicito” and “Monotonia”.
Shakira (45) and Gerard Pique (35) had announced their separation following more than a decade of living together and announced in November that they had reached an agreement for the custody of their children, Milan (nine) and Sasha (seven). years).
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Shakira and Gerard Pique, photographed in 2014.
The singer has neither married the ex-FC Barcelona player – who announced his surprise sports retirement in November – nor shared her property with him and says she wants to leave Spain, where a tax evasion case is open to her. once morest.
“You left me (…) with the press at the door and a tax debt, you thought you were hurting me and you toughened me up, women don’t cry anymore, women charge,” says the singer in a final salvo.
