Shakira swims in a sea of ​​empty love in her new song

Shakira sheds the pain and anger she’s been carrying around in love for a year and sheds her skin if she wants to, this time openly flakiing it. A few weeks after Disney released the new version little mermaidColombian singer The fish tail and ocean protagonist appear in the new video with pink hair. “You are always busy with so much business; It would be nice, my love, a little rest”, new song, An empty cup, about a woman who becomes dissatisfied with a man who thinks more about money than the man next to her. “I want more and I want to drink from an empty cup,” he adds about his lack of desire on this new song, which he co-produced with Colombian urban music singer Manuel Turizo—the 23-year-old who appears in the video. Like a prince without a fish tail and two legs. Tragedy of Two Legs Facing a Magnificent Angel.

Unlike little mermaid However, from Disney, Shakira does not chase the prince with her voice and her songs like an octopus with two legs: they live in different worlds, she is hot, he is cold, he does not breathe water, she does, and there is nothing to change. “You’re colder than January, I ask for heat, you only give me snow,” he says. “I’m not a mechanic, but I try to fix it and it doesn’t work; reviving an unresponsive heart”, he answers. Irreparable differences. The mermaid can sometimes be seen surviving among the debris of the sea – this represents the plastic pollution in the sea and the dirt that lives in empty love.

Songs that sell romantic love are over in Shakira’s world: these aren’t the days anymore January day One There are romances, ballads from two decades ago. Shakira has had several songs for over a year, in which she says goodbye to her relationship with football player Gerard Pique, with humorous lyrics: Congratulations, In it he ironically told his ex-partner that he was very good at cheating on her; BoringIn which he said that the fault of the end of the relationship is not one, not the other; Music Sessions #53, In which, in a very vengeful tone, she declares that she is not going to devote herself to weeping, but to mending that broken heart; TQG, In it he tells his ex that she’s bigger than him (she’s “good, tough, high-level”). The last two songs were among the most listened to songs on stage this year Spotify Worldwide.

On that track, Shakira collaborated with some of the most popular urban music artists such as Bachata, Reggaeton, Trap, Carol G and Rao Alejandro. A month ago, he went on to do a simple and sweet piano solo AcrosticA song dedicated to his two children telling them not to worry about the plate their father broke: he will show them how to take care of the leftovers.

An empty cup It comes with fewer attacks on Pique and her new partner, Clara Chia, Shakira said recently magazine People Today its focus is elsewhere. “I’m rebuilding the nest,” says the singer, who left Barcelona for Miami with her two children. Rumor has it that she may be dating Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton, but even if that turns out to be true, the British motorist is still a long way from appearing on a song. The only love Shakira seeks is more elusive than fish and mermaids, which they call self-love.

“I don’t deny that I question myself many times, as we all do, if we are worthy of love,” Shakira said. People. But he adds: “Until we learn to love and accept ourselves as we are, we stop believing that we have value only if someone shows it to us, and we start working to truly believe it. But there’s a little bit of everything. There are days”.

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