Shakira and Bizarrap: strengths and weaknesses of the last song-event

• Session with Bizarrap Shakira's darts at Piqué in the lyrics of his song with Bizarrap: "You traded a Ferrari for a Twingo"

• Impact The numbers of Shakira and Bizarrap's hit: best Latin premiere in the history of YouTube and trend in more than 20 countries

• Justice The court sits Shakira on the bench for six crimes against the Treasury

When it was announced on Monday that

had recorded a session with

, both were instantly

also crept

into thousands of Twitter comments.

Today is also TT.

The Puerto Rican rapper launched a missile at J. Balvin in March of last year with the production of Bizarrap, a wild song lasting more than eight minutes in which he ridicules the Colombian singer with as much lyrical richness as sadism.

Resident massacred Balvin and people took out a family bucket of popcorn.

A rap classic.

So

, wanted them, wanted them with morbid enthusiasm, and Shakira has dished out quite a few.

It even suggests that Gerard Piqué had a certain responsibility in his "debt in the Treasury", a phrase in the letter that supposes, by the way, recognizing that he contracted that debt, which according to the public prosecution amounts to 14.5 million euros and for which He is pending a trial in which the Prosecutor's Office asks for

.

It's beautiful to read many people show their

by the song.

In general, I really like that Shakira tries to destroy Piqué and that she owns the story.

That she empowers herself without victimhood:

.

But I see a lot of debate on other issues.

Should we like that he crushes the lover?

Should we take into account what the couple's children think, who are nine and 11 years old and find out everything?

In the lyrics there are some quite brilliant phrases and others quite vulgar, flashes in any case that rancor can get the best of homo sapiens.

.

Many of us thought at first: what is Bizarrap doing wasting his time and wasting his talent with Shakira?

Bizarrap is a genius of current pop music

.

I'm not going to argue about it.

It is difficult to find musicians with the relevance that the 24-year-old Argentine producer (24!) claims from his studio in Buenos Aires.

Each of his sessions is an event in all Spanish-speaking countries, each one monopolizing the conversation on social networks.

And he does it by right.

There's part fashion and part positive momentum, but the main part of his impact is his talent.

Inside his mixing desk, electronics and hip hop bounce at the service of collective pleasure, he balances, hides and propels them with a remarkable technical capacity but, above all, with a tremendous nose for handling the resources that make a song popular. and with its internal dynamics.

he conceives each song as a stick of dynamite that explodes in your face, as a scream that you also want to exclaim and share.

If you listen to it with your friends, you chant it out loud;

if you go down the street it frustrates you not being able to sing like a madman.

All this is what does not happen with Shakira's session, a song that nobody would ask for in Maggyk karaoke.

Or maybe yes, I don't know, I prefer

, of course, they put it on the San Silvestre every kilometer and people felt like Cheptegei, people like crazy singing and running.

In Shakira's session,

.

It's okay that the lyrics were important, but that voice so close-up doesn't make sense.

One can imagine that she was afraid that they would not understand her.

Its main problem is that

, that "A wolf like me isn't 'for guys like you/ I'm too big for you and that's why you're with someone just like you" is a piece of sentence that should be a rush, a firework that explodes in the middle of the sky, not sounding so soft, so soft melodically.

Are you spouting smack and say "uh-uh-uh-uh"?

It sounds more like a romantic song than a passionate spite.

To me that a letter says one thing and sounds like another seems fine to me, these ambiguities usually work, but in this case it is a bit strange.

Meanwhile, below, Bizarrap is doing a classic of his: changing the arrangements and not repeating.

The songs in general have a very simple structure.

At the start the tone is set, the verses begin, the prechorus paves the way and warms up the people so that the song explodes with the chorus.

That takes a minute or so.

Then it starts over.

What do producers usually do?

Put the churro machine to spin: they repeat the same sound of each part adding some intensity in the second and third chorus.

What does Biza do?

When the first chorus ends, it doesn't go back to the beginning, but changes and adds new things.

Many.

So the song is evolving all the time, moving forward, more dynamic and fun to listen to.

In his session with Shakira

, a strange choice for the font, a bit standard electropop for what is usual in Argentina, but hey, it's okay to say hard things with a sweet face, although here the combination did not finish taking off.

The chorus ends and suddenly EDM sounds.

Are you going to start a polygon disco moment?

No, it's just a mirage, a red herring, because then there's a bit of a tribal moment, from there it jumps into house and the synthesizers disappear.

He inserts a bridge that is almost very convincing rap, there very well, and then he returns to the prechorus, weakly, and to the chorus.

In the video they both move their arms a lot as if the house were falling, but to me it sounds like current and grinding pop.

A triumph for Shakira, a disappointment for Bizarrap fans.

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