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In the past, what we asked of the stars was that they were unattainable gods and that their life and miracles be shrouded in mystery; distance and lack of data fed back the fascination. Today, on the other hand, we want the stars to be as human as we are, although with some heroic glimpse, and that is why we are interested in their weaknesses and snooping on Instagram to know what they have eaten or what they have dressed up for Halloween. The privacy of others is the new drug of the fans. Being opaque no longer sells.
The buzzword is now transparency: as Elton John has done in his memoirs - where he presents himself as a calamitous being, at the mercy of addictions and whims - or Lady Gaga in the Five Foot Two documentary produced by Netflix, in which he took advantage To reveal that his career was conditioned by chronic pain derived from fibromyalgia, the idea is that the idol becomes flesh to generate empathy that can be seen as another marketing tool. The drama sells, and if there is no drama we have to invent it, as the song said.
Shakira (42) also has a drama to take advantage of for his benefit, and it is that of his dizzying life in Barcelona in the last decade, in which he has known fullness as a mother and conjugal happiness - two children with Gerard Piqué (32) , a couple relationship almost as long as the one he had with Antonio de la Rúa between 2000 and 2010 - but that have affected the normal development of his musical career and his business for being far from America - his biggest market - and for the difficulty of reconciling a demanding agenda and personal life . And the story that beats below all this, and that has been rumored for years, is that of an intermittent couple crisis between Shakira and Piqué.
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It was a suspicion that toured the city and that was occasionally amplified when anonymous informants gave clues about a couple's discussion in public at a certain creperie in the upper area , in which Piqué would have recriminated Shakira who would always be late to the sites -which confirms once again the famous beginning of Anna Karénina, which states that each unhappy family is their own way-, or that it was reactivated when Shakira did not go down to the grass after a Barça victory, as in the last Cup of the King of 2018, for example, to share the triumph with his man. None of these examples are definitive in their own right, but all added together fed the theory of potholes in an already rugged road.
This week has finally confirmed that there was a crisis, that it was no conspiracy theory, and it was Shakira herself who has recognized her, in the purest Lady Gaga style, through her new documentary, Shakira in concert: El Dorado World Tour The film is a promotional device that runs its world tour of 2017 and 2018 - which began catastrophic and concluded triumphant -, with some dressing room costumes and confessions that are like an extension of the social network stories that provide the much desired transparency, and it is not a metaphor, because it is Shakira who is breaking down the key moments of the documentary on her Instagram, in which she has 60 million followers.
The most commented moment, among those already known - the entire film can be seen this Wednesday at a premiere in cinemas throughout Spain limited to a single night - is the deterioration of its relationship with Gerard Piqué regarding the accidents derived from His tour. In 2017, Shakira suffered an injury to the vocal cords and had to interrupt the concerts. He had two options: go through the operating room or rest for a few months. He chose the latter, to spend more time with his children, Milan (2013) and Sasha (2015), but that decision also dragged him into a spiral of inactivity that, as can be seen from the documentary and some statements made by Shakira herself In the presentation of the same to the media, it translated into a sense of collapse.
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CRISIS AND NEW HOUSE
"He told me that he did not want a future with a bitter woman," says Piqué when he saw him abandon himself to indolence and defeatism. He also explains that the sinkhole crossed in 2017 was the revulsion that made them return to the desire to live together and strengthen the bonds of the couple. Not surprisingly, in 2018 they opened a new house, a white and illuminated mansion of new construction on a plot of almost 4000 square meters on the outskirts of Barcelona.
Shakira's early years in her new city were brilliant, almost an aphrodisiac for her. He had met Gerard Piqué during the filming of the Waka Waka video clip, which was to be the official anthem of the World Cup in South Africa, and they coincided again during the World Cup. That same summer they saw each other again in Ibiza and the attraction a few months ago materialized in a romance that grew and became official in 2011. In 2012, the couple was already living in Barcelona in a flat in the upper area, near the slopes of Mount Tibidabo, although where they were most often seen was in the nightclub area of the Olympic Port. In 2012, Shakira decided to shoot the video clip of her song Loba in Barcelona - she was fined for riding a motorcycle without a helmet and for getting into a fountain without municipal permission - and to promote the single until she organized a performance in the middle of the street: she got off of the car at a traffic light, put the music at full volume, and danced on the same shoulder. The mobile phone cameras realized that.
At that time, his relationship with his previous partner, Antonio de la Rúa - an entrepreneur and son of former Argentine President Fernando de la Rúa - was completely destroyed. They had broken on good terms in 2010 and he continued to be their representative, but between 2012 and 2013 they were before the judge to resolve their professional differences. In 2013 he had his first child and the following year he recovered the pulse of his frenetic record activity publishing Shakira , the next album of his career, four years after Sale el sol (2010).
This period is interesting because, until that moment, Shakira's musical career had been characterized by hyperactivity: in the 2000s he released five albums, three live albums and two compilations - plus the subsequent tours - while between 2011 and today there have only been two albums, a compilation and two live recordings, including the documentary of El Dorado.
The birth of their children is the factor that largely determines their professional chronology and what explains that their main professional activity between 2013 and 2014 was to be judge of the American edition of the talent La Voz. However, recording the programs in the United States forced him to a routine of trips that made family reconciliation difficult and coincide with Piqué, who as a player of FC Barcelona was also subjected to a hard discipline of displacements, in addition to the extra time that He has dedicated to the launch of his private businesses , which has crystallized in recent years in a holding company -Kosmos- with interests in football, some on the verge of legality because of his status as an active federated footballer (the purchase of Andorra or the new Supercopa of Spain), tennis - the new Davis Cup -, online sales - is a preferred partner in Spain of Rakuten, the Japanese Amazon - and the production of audiovisuals and video games.
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HE, Tied to Spain
Shakira's businesses, on the other hand, are not so circumscribed to Europe. While maintaining ties with Colombia, his interests in fashion, perfumery and other sponsorships beyond the music business force him to move to Los Angeles or Miami . "We are not a typical couple , " he said recently in an interview. "It's true that we spend a lot of time away, but we communicate continuously via Facetime." During the 2017 tour , Shakira took her two children with her and Piqué fit her schedule as she could to coincide in any city far from Barcelona. The couple crisis is partly explained by the demanding servitudes of the superstar in the global era.
But there are also Shakira's problems with the Treasury - his name appeared in Los Papeles del Paraíso and he is suspected of having evaded taxes in Spain between 2011 and 2014 - accusations of plagiarism over the issue of the bicycle, which have also brought him to trial , and his desire to move to another city , something that is impossible for Piqué today, because his sports career is linked to Barça and the rampant phase of his parallel activation in business shark is also centered in Spain. For now, it seems that tensions have relaxed and the crisis has been redirected to a new phase of happiness and stability. But the background friction is clearly still there, at least until Piqué hangs the boots.
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