I warn you and I announce that today I give up wikipedia ads. The phrase is repeated in my head while I search for statements, news, viral auctions, lost couples, memorable hits, hips that scream truths from the four winds. And i ask myself: What information could we not know about her? There are endless biographies, and Shakira’s is one of those.
Since Isabel Mebarak Ripoll went from being a girl who sang in meetings to becoming Shakira, the most awarded Latin singer in the world, all her steps were exposed before us. Lived ten lives in one, He changed his hair, his tone, his imprint. She explored all existing music genres and was always in sync with the spirit of the times. Shakira is the owner of the sensor that marks where the social movement is going.
She succeeded in the international market and positioned herself in the English-speaking world like no other Latina woman could. The trick wasn’t just to release an album like Laundry Service in a double English/Spanish version, but rather in using it as a hook to plant its roots in a hostile territory for other languages, other phrases and also other bodies. Because Shakira was not angelic, tall or blonde, but a petite girl fed on pure gunpowder, with rocker long hair, a broken voice and an ass that moved to the rhythm of the belly dance that she had learned in her Barranquilla hometown when at school they knew her as “the little girl of the Arab dance”.
And if you’re at the dance, you have to dance, you know, even if some ugly songs are playing that nobody wants to hear. He went through everything, from the financial collapse of his family to a mega-lawsuit for tax debts, but who hasn’t signed up for a moratorium on the monotax? He built a musical empire and also built schools in the most vulnerable neighborhoods. He fell madly in love and crashed like a bullet train. She was blind, deaf and dumb until she had to speak.
He was upstairs, downstairs, he took photos of Piqué dressed as Topo Gigio, he dressed his children as elves for Christmas, She came to Messi’s wedding as a “woman of” and believed that the light depended on the man who pressed the switch. They said that he gives notes with a bad face; that when in 2000 he wondered where were the thieves he was about to find out that he had one next to him, and that he preaches sorority but listens to his ex’s new partner in a topic that garnered three million views in one hour.
Why do we forgive Shakira everything? There is something that no sociologist would understand because love transcends any theory. Shakira is the incarnation of that phrase that was born in Formula 1 and, according to legend, James Hunt told Niki Lauda: “Sometimes it’s good that people love you.” Even if we invoke Foucault, Baudrillard or Deleuze, no one will be able to solve the mystery of why there are people we want to do well.
CONGRATULATIONS
Although some women are millionaires and powerful, we feel that they could cry like us, in jogginets, drinking mate and guiltlessly bitching at the new ex.
“You know very well that I am at your feet,” she sang to Antonito as she promised to climb the Andes just to count her moles. The Shakira that last week gave a viral interview to Enrique Acevedo, host of the Mexican program O’clock by N+, each of those words is reconsidered: “I have believed that fable that a woman definitely needs a man, I have always been quite dependent on men, I have to confess. I have been in love with love and I think that I have managed to understand this story from another perspective and feel that I am enough for myself today. I have managed to feel that I am enough, something that I thought could never happen “.
And if his statements sound like an inspirational post on Instagram, a motivational tiktoker video, you also have to wonder how many world famous stars dare to confess that all their lives they have been dependent on a man.
That Shakira expresses what many women in positions of power would not even dare to think: it doesn’t matter how successful you are if your existence depends on the approval of your partner.
At 46 years old, Shakira belongs to a generation raised under the sign of the ideal family dream. There was always talk of his weakness for his father, who is having a difficult time in health after suffering a double fall and undergoing surgery for a subdural clot. “My father is the light of my life,” she said. She once also declared that before meeting Piqué he thought there was no God and that “after Gerard the sun came out.” Now Shakira realized that she can change the light bulbs by herself. Her children Milan and Sasha will continue to be there even though they move to Miami and the Christmas photos are not those that Shakira imagined when she saw her parents’ family albums.
Milan was the one who told him: “You have to do something with Bizarrap”. I envy the good eye of the creature, the rest is history. Sometimes friends or children change the music and you are disoriented, asking when the slow ones come back, or not. Because from “To complete you I broke into pieces, they warned me but I didn’t pay attention” that she sang in “I congratulate you”, she went on to “A she-wolf like me is not for guys like you”.
The “BZRP Music Sessions #53” went around the world, and At the close of this edition, Shakira and Bizarrap will be about to appear on the Jimmy Fallon show. Women don’t cry, do women bill? Perhaps we women have the right to cry and also to invoice without the guilt coming out… itches.
I NOTICE YOU, I ANNOUNCE YOU
Shakira was deceived like all of us, and when it comes to collecting that change she knows what she has with what. No one is safe from cheating, but discussing it in public is something else, as Chris Rock said in Selective Outragethe comedy special where he attends to Will Smith. And our girl turned the catharsis into an electro pop curse with her usual bloodhound nose for collaborations.
She always senses what the song is. He plunged into unbridled rock when Aerosmith was power, he entered the unintelligible sensual whisper when Alejandro Sanz was the guilty pleasure of the moment, he vampirized the young trap of another Alejandro, Rauw, and he reached the unprejudiced phrasing of Karol G with the hit “ TQG”. “You left saying that you surpassed me and you got a new girlfriend, what she doesn’t know is that you’re still seeing all the stories.” Shakira knows that a couple of women singing the truth are worth more than a team of stalkers.
And while in the networks there is discussion about whether a literature of revenge is legal or if the manual of the good feminist sees with approval eyes that you throw yourself against the new girlfriend of the ex who slept in your bed, he used your password Netflix and you ate your skim yogurt, Shakira shoots the conversation into places that aren’t as light as they seem.
He did it by imposing his English with an accent when the Latino community was undervalued in international markets; when he exhibited a body that was far from that of supermodels and little stars designed by record companies; when he chose to go elsewhere in a family full of cousins who competed in beauty pageants as a means of social advancement; when she wanted to give birth instead of continuing to tour, and also when she decided to come back, cuckolded, sad, angry, alone, angry, happy, hopeful, with a new album and a great desire to kick more than four.
Does a Shakira song draw more questions than the book? we should all be feminists, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie? Maybe yes, because Chimamanda is already a T-shirt phrase and Shakira we are all, beyond dogma. Without her millions, but with our doubts, contradictions, wickedness and mandates that we still can’t get rid of. Even to be happily ever after or to write a profile of Shakira that is not a profile but a model to put together. Ferrari, Twingo, Rolex or Casio, you choose. Youuuuu.
Photos: Courtesy of Sony Music
