• Opinion Piqué and Shakira, a bland separation

  • Ruptures Shakira reappears in front of the media after the announcement of the breakup and her meeting with Piqué

When a relationship as long as the one between Shakira and Piqué breaks up, in which there are children and shared properties, it is always tempting to wonder if it will end like the Rose war, a cruel consequence of the divorces that, however,

Livens up the roost among neutral viewers like you.

The War of the Roses

-which could also have been called the rosary of the dawn- is a film in which Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas,

recently separated, turn their home into a delirious battlefield,

which gives rise to barbaric situations that they show that, from love to hate, there is only one step.

In this aspect, Shakira has been intelligent -it should not be ruled out that she has read Sun Tzu-, because she never agreed to marry.

He has maintained a relationship of almost 12 years with the Barça footballer,

as before he had another of a decade with the Argentine heir Antonio de la Rúa, but without signing a single paper that compromises his fortune of around 300 million dollars, so that Don't let what happened to Jeff Bezos happen to you.

However, this will not be resolved peacefully: the first intuitions that have emerged since the separation is official suggest that the great conflict

will go through the custody of the children, Milan and Sasha.

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Shakira, they say, does not want to continue in Barcelona and wants to settle in Miami or the Bahamas, which is where she has properties and, above all, her professional interests,

to a certain extent neglected during all the time she has been with Piqué.

Although Shakira's artistic profile has not been significantly damaged throughout this decade -she continues to be the referential figure of Latin pop in the era of globalization-, it is no less true that the rhythm of her publications has dropped from remarkable way.

Before

Waka Waka,

Shakira wrote, recorded and toured at a higher rate than Madonna in her heyday;

but her output has since been reduced to two albums, an extensive world tour

and a 2020 Superbowl halftime appearance

alongside Jennifer Lopez.

Enough to continue being a diva and stay in the spotlight without seeming to live on income from the past, but in exchange for having to give up its former omnipresent role with younger and fresher proposals, the generation of Becky G. In reality, when it has collaborated with Maluma or Rauw Alejandro

on singles designed to keep the flame alive,

it seems more that she is the guest, and not the other way around.

Let's compare with a decade ago.

When Shakira made her relationship with Piqué official and moved to Barcelona, ​​she burst into the city as a star: it was when videos appeared on social networks in which she danced dubstep in the street after getting out of a taxi,

shot video clips riding a motorcycle through Paseo de Colón

and received fines for bathing in public fountains, like any hooligan of a German soccer team.

He wanted the city to surrender at his feet, and in a way it did.

In 2014, she presented her album Shakira

at the Hotel W

-the first since

Sale el sol

(2010)-, when she had already given birth to her first child, and it seemed that she was

perfectly integrated into the beautiful society of the county,

giving glamor to the floor that stepped on

But from then on, she began to be seen less.

Actually, he had no reason to show off.

In Barcelona - really on the outskirts - Shakira had her family home and little else.

His businesses, which have not stopped multiplying in this decade -adding lingerie lines, real estate investments and participation in television shows- have gone well,

and he has not even had to activate the machinery of the tours in abundance,

which has allowed to be close to their children and take care of the upbringing at home, unlike Beyoncé or Irene, who used nannies.

For a time, she even considered putting the music on hold;

Now that her life has been turned upside down, giving her career a boost is without a doubt her inexcusable priority.

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In this particular post-separation war, the key issue is children.

The properties can be sold and the millions distributed - Piqué moved weeks ago to his old apartment in the upper area of ​​Barcelona, ​​in the vicinity of Plaza Adriano -, but the children cannot, unless we remember the story of King Solomon .

It is said that Piqué resists moving away from Barcelona, ​​while Shakira -with all the advantage in the custody battle- points to Miami.

A hypothetical solution would be for him to go play in the United States league,

but obviously that is not in the plans of the defender, who has taken a liking to live his fantasy of being a business shark.

In retrospect, this relationship always seemed atypical.

It had its logic on a purely biological level -in 2010 Shakira was 33 years old, with the clock ticking, and he was a beautiful gene disseminator of February 23 in his athletic apogee-, but

there was no greater cultural affinity or harmony in other aspects

.

Shakira was a tenacious and discreet worker who understood the responsibility of maintaining the brand she had built, while Piqué was discovering the ambrosias of the night and the underworld such as poker timbas, the business of his company Kosmos, the trapis with Rubiales,

dealings with sheikhs and streaming broadcasts.

Sometimes, to confuse, he played soccer.

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Behind the separation, in short, a shadow silhouette appears that points to discordant lifestyles and, of course, to that recurring euphemism that is "third parties".

Rumors of infidelity on the part of Piqué had been circulating for a long time, and in his latest song,

I congratulate you

-released in April-, the lyrics can be interpreted, like so many others by Shakira, in an autobiographical key:

"People with

two faces don't I

can stand

/ I who put my hands on the fire for you".

If the next album is about divorce, we may be looking at the Latin equivalent

of Fleetwood Mac 's

Rumours .

I hope the wolf comes back.

The alleged lover and the anxiety attack

It will be a matter of time before the vague points of history are clarified.

Is there certainly a young mistress in her early 20s?

The information prior to the breakup suggests that Shakira is deeply hurt and that there were other betrayals before: a few days before the separation statement, she was admitted to the Teknon clinic in Barcelona for an acute anxiety attack, motivated by an accident with her father and added to the excess emotional burden accumulated in recent times, to which should also be added his problems with the Spanish Treasury, another merciless Leviathan.

In short, that Shakira has a lot of whiplash and at some point she will seek revenge and compensation.

Don't wait for a peace treaty.

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