One might think that this crowded Latin music landscape could threaten Shakira’s relevance. Puerto Rican trap maestro Bad Bunny outran them all - then helped clear the way for his collaborators, Mexican acts like Natanael Cano and Grupo Frontera, to take their rightful place on the world stage. In the subsequent years of reggaetón’s peak global prominence, Colombia alone has produced many acts that have upended the anglophone supremacy in pop music, including J Balvin, Maluma and Karol G. Since Shakira dropped pop-reggaetón gold in El Dorado, music from Latin America has scaled commercial heights once thought to be unfathomable in the United States. “While singing them, my tears transformed into diamonds, and my vulnerability into strength.” “While writing each song I was rebuilding myself,” Shakira said in a press statement. Translated to “Women No Longer Cry,” it is the singer-songwriter’s first studio album since the release of her 2017 LP, El Dorado - and a fierce, unfiltered bounce back from years spent inundated by writers’ block and heartache. This track appears on Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran, Shakira’s final kiss goodbye to the chapter of her life. Despite taking a civil tone in a press release issued that summer, she came firing back in 2023 with a tabloid-ready diss track, detailing their breakup (and Piqué’s infidelity) in excruciating detail: the electro-pop atomic bomb “BZRP Music Sessions #53,”recorded with the stellar Argentine producer Bizarrap.

The saga began in June of that year, when the Grammy-winning Colombian superstar announced the end of her 11-year romance with the Catalan soccer player, and father of her two children, Gerard Piqué. Since 2022, Shakira’s personal life has publicly unfolded like an engrossing telenovela that just won’t resolve.

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