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It is not just a song of spite, it may be
the springboard on which Shakira will launch her career again
, which seemed to be in decline after several years of little activity.
The international impact of her session with Bizarrap, published last Thursday, has encouraged the Colombian singer to
speed up the release of her next album
, which is scheduled to be published during 2023, according to several sources consulted.
It would be her first album in six years.
Shakira has been euphoric in recent days due to the instant and international success of her
session with Bizarrap
, three minutes and 37 seconds that broke the record for views of a song in Spanish on YouTube (63 million in its first 24 hours), the record number of listeners on Spotify on its second day (13.6 million: never had a song achieved so much audience the day after its premiere) and which also adds millionaire audiences on Apple Music, TikTok or Instagram.
The experienced artist wants to take advantage of this victory to regain a leadership position in Latin pop, at a time when music sung in Spanish is triumphing worldwide.
She is working intensely
in Barcelona and has returned to the studio.
Her goal: not to cool the effect of the Bizarrap session and to keep the public's interest alive to turn the album into one of the great musical events of the year.
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The artist herself confessed on Instagram on Saturday that the song was conceived as "a catharsis" and "an outlet" and showed her great surprise for "reaching number one in the world at the age of 45 and in Spanish."
The session with Bizarrap is loaded with messages from Shakira against her ex-partner, businessman Gerard Piqué, from whom she separated last summer.
That "release," as she defines it, is an anomaly in her 30-plus-year career, and
it almost certainly won't be on her next album
, as Bizarrap's recordings are owned by the Dale Play record company and they never appear on the albums of the singers invited by the Argentine producer.
However, the song will not be an anecdote, but a hinge to a new scenario in which she now dominates the story and has regained a lot of prestige in a few days.
Bizarrap and Shakira.
Shakira has been working on and off for several years on her
twelfth studio album
.
But her problems with the Spanish Treasury, first, the pandemic, then, and her divorce, last year, have led to the constant delays of a record that, now, seems close to coming out.
The album will be made up of
songs from different genres sung in English and Spanish
and will feature various collaborations, according to what Shakira told
Elle
last September.
She in that interview she stated that the album is "practically finished".
In the interview he also showed the anguish caused by the impact of his divorce on his two
children
.
"I have tried to hide the situation in front of my children. I try to protect them, because that is my priority in life. But then, at school, they hear things from their friends or they come across unpleasant news on the internet, and it just affects them" , said the singer, who now sees her stardom resurface thanks to her explicit song against her ex-husband and his new partner.
fraud accusation
In 2018 he won his third Grammy Award and it was the year of his
last world tour
, a series of more than 50 concerts for which Live Nation earned more than 70 million dollars.
The
tour
was named after the 2017 album,
El Dorado
, whose love lyrics were also inspired by his relationship with Piqué.
It was her last great artistic year: in December 2018 it was learned that the Prosecutor's Office planned to accuse her of a tax fraud of 14.5 million euros for pretending not to reside in Spain and hiding her income, through a corporate network based in paradises prosecutors, between 2012 and 2014.
After her performance at the Super Bowl halftime in February 2020 with Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny and J. Balvin, Shakira spent the first year of the pandemic fallow, with the idea of offering a world tour in 2021. The restrictions to the massive concerts caused the cancellation of the
tour
.
In January of that same year, the artist took advantage of the music rights bubble to cash in:
she sold her entire De Ella catalogue
, 145 songs, to the Hipgnosis investment fund.
Shakira has released two songs in 2022, the year of her breakup with Piqué.
I congratulate you
(along with Rauw Alejandro) and
Monotonía
(along with Ozuna) they are songs that will surely be part of her next album.
In the coming months, the artist plans to move to Miami and the trial is pending for allegedly defrauding the Treasury, but if she is able to finish the album at this time, which does not yet have a release date,
a reasonable scenario is that it will be published in
summer or
fall
In this way, the world tour could be held in 2024, something that for this year is already very unlikely, according to the sources consulted, who also do not believe it likely that it could be the headliner of any festival in Spain this summer.
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