Shakira - "El Jefe" + General Discussion

First of all, whew she looks outstanding with the blue dress. Those two photos are a work of art, she looks like a wave.

And then, my God the interview is heartbreaking.

''It’s a very short question for a very long answer. I don’t think everyone has access to happiness. It’s reserved for a very select number of people, and I can’t say I’m part of the club at this moment. There are moments of happiness, distraction, moments of reflection''.

I very rarely feel this way, but I felt so sad for her while I was reading the interview. I hope she finds true happiness.
 
It is kind of gaggy having her laying it all out in such a candid way. She rarely ever does that.

Not like it's a surprise, but reading her talk about how her career took third position in her life ever since she went into the relationship makes so much sense. The two albums she released in the midst of it truly represent her dip in quality for me. It's like she lost the spark to be adventurous and try new and exciting sounds, which wasn't always a creative success, but at least she was willing to go out of the box. Opinions may vary, but after the Fixation eras, She Wolf saw her enveloped in a different kind of glossy, poppy package she'd never really tried before; in Sale El Sol, she submerged herself completely in tropical sounds and revisited her guitar-led, songwriter-y phase (that's really always been there). And then... she released her self-titled album and El Dorado, neither of them actively bad, but both definitely reductive and uninspired.

How she manages to fully reclaim that spark in a concise package... remains to be seen. But following her career is exciting again, because it's been a long while since we didn't know which way she was going to go. And she's even talking about a tour that seems to be pretty much set in stone, seeing how the article mentions it's a 24-city worldwide affair. Bring it on!

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You can tell by watching interviews from her Piqué days that he wanted her to give up music and fully focus on him, and she wasn't against that idea at all. I feel like when her kids are older we're going to hear way more details about their marriage, because from what she's telling now and those videos of her mother-in-law treating her like shit... yikes. I know it's not right to discuss her private life here but I feel for her and I'm so happy she's free now. I know what a relationship like that feels like so yeah. It's fucked up.
 


Loved watching this so much, she has so many classics. It also made me realize how with reggaeton's resurgence in recent years, La Tortura really is such a timeless sounding song.

I do really want another rock influenced album from her at some point, similar to Donde Estan Los Ladrones.

I had no idea that she approached Sia and Seth MacFarlane to write the English lyrics to She Wolf? How random nn.
 
Didn't she also have a bad break up with the Argentinean guy? I don't think she really spoke about that much or put it in her music, in the way she's doing now.

I think her being open about her hurt and putting in the music is so refreshing, it's helping to see her as an artist with something to say rather than just doing through the motions of her last few efforts.
 
Didn't she also have a bad break up with the Argentinean guy? I don't think she really spoke about that much or put it in her music, in the way she's doing now.

I think her being open about her hurt and putting in the music is so refreshing, it's helping to see her as an artist with something to say rather than just doing through the motions of her last few efforts.

She kind of cheated on him with Piqué so yeah, she wasn't going to say a lot about that dddd
 
I have a complete Shakira renaissance going on. Her last couple Spanish songs all were great, and she had such a catalogue.

Wild that her This is Shakira on Spotify is 95 percent Spanish and doesn’t even contain her biggest English hits on the first 20 positions or so and barely all of them. At least in Germany.

It kind of feels like she is fully focusing on the Spanish market again now that everybody realize that it’s one that is important too. Happy to see that.

It’s amazing in general that she kept her career going for such a long time. She‘s one of the very few that managed to do that in a big way.
 
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