Shakira has published a studio album after seven years. Women No Longer Cry has a lot of the wolf that she has transformed into over these years, but it also has a lot of the unconditional love that her fans have shown her in this last stage of her life, which has been especially affected. personally.
The first time we heard “Women no longer cry… women make money” on the Bzrp Music Sessions, vol. 53, we knew that that verse would give a lot to talk about, but at that moment we did not understand the dimensions it would reach, nor the weight it would have just one year later. The phrase resonated in January 2023 and, in just fourteen months, it has become a feminist slogan whose meaning goes far beyond making a negative personal experience profitable.
And that is something that the Barranquilla star himself explained in his meeting with Cris Regatero in Miami. Our colleague and presenter from LOS40 has traveled there to attend the presentation of the album and chat a little about some curiosities about it, making a journey from its four editions: Diamante, Rubí, Esmeralda and Zafiro.
The Colombian told us that the process of creating this project “has been a constant dialogue, that is why I say that I have not created it alone, but with my pack, with those women who have also gone through life situations that are universal.” . “These feelings and emotions that we all go through are not exclusive to a particular situation. […] and these songs have a function beyond myself and a purpose of representing other people in their personal battles. In their struggles and their triumphs, because the stories on this album are also triumphs; The tears are tears of triumph. “They are tears that turn into diamonds and represent the strength and resilience that women have.”
And in that causality of representing the strength of women, Shakira has reflected on this historical role that is attributed to us. “It is true that women have historically had the role, not only of being a victim, but they send us to cry with a script in our hands and tell us how we have to do it: we have to hide the pain from others, from our children. , demonstrate good manners, be elegant and sober in the face of pain and adversity… And who has to tell us how to dry our tears and how to heal? Nobody has the right to do it. That is something that is intrinsic and that is personal,” she states.
“With this slogan of ‘Women no longer cry’ what I want to say is that, obviously, crying is a physiological, human and psychological need, for both men and women, but sending us to cry with a booklet in our hand is only because you are a woman… no. That is, I cry when I want and, if I don’t want to, I don’t cry. And when I do it, you don’t have to tell me how. I do it the best way I can.”
What’s next: a tour to match
Of course, after releasing an album, the next step—natural and logical—is usually planning a tour. Shakira has confirmed, without giving approximate dates, that “there is going to be a tour.” And not just any one, the artist senses that it will be the most important tour of her career.
Does this mean that there will be a Shak concert at the Santiago Bernabéu, as El Mundo announced almost a month ago? It’s too soon to know. “I hope to be there in Spain, […] “I don’t know if Bernabéu or where, but you can dream big, why not?” he indicated.
