Shakira has a new proposal for her “wolves”: her first album in seven years.
The “Hips Don't Lie” superstar revealed that her new album, “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran” (which translates in English to “Women Don't Cry Anymore”), is on the way and offered her fans some insight of what happened. making her twelfth studio album. On Instagram, the singer shared the album cover, which shows bright tears streaming down her face.
“My new album, coming out on March 22, is one I created together with all of you, my wolf pack who were there for me every step of the way,” he said in his caption, shared in Spanish and English. “Doing this work has been an alchemical process.”
If the title “Las Mujeres No Ya Lloran” sounds familiar to some Shakira devotees, it's most likely because it's a line that appears in the Latin pop diva's song, “Bzrp Music Sessions #5.”
Months after her split from Spanish soccer star Gerard Piqué in 2022, Shakira teamed up with Argentine DJ and producer Bizarrap for a scathing swipe at her ex-partner. She sings: “Women don't cry anymore / Women profit.”
The upbeat song was just one of the ways Shakira talked about leaving Piqué, with whom she shares children, Sasha Piqué Mebarak and Milan Piqué Mebarak. Shakira and Piqué were together for 12 years.
In a September 2023 cover story for Billboard, he said he had “gone through several stages: denial, anger, hurt, frustration, angry again, hurt again.”
And he added: “Now I am in a survival stage. Like, just get your head out of the water. And it is a stage of reflection.”
“Las Mujeres No Ya Lloran” is apparently the result of that, as Shakira's title details how she finds solace and healing in the new music.
“As I wrote each song, I was rebuilding myself,” she said. “As she sang them, my tears transformed into diamonds and my vulnerability into strength.”
Last year, the singer, 47, expressed similar sentiments when she won the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards. Accepting the honor, she sent love to her fans for “helping me fight all my battles” and He dedicated the victory to his Latin American community.
“Thank you for inspiring me and for injecting me with so much strength and so much desire to move forward,” he said in his speech, translated from Spanish to English.
With “Las Mujeres No Ya Lloran,” Shakira is helping make this spring a busy spring for some of music's most popular female artists. Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez and Ariana Grande will also release new music in the coming months.
