Shakira, a Colombian singer, ignited social media on Thursday with the publication of her newest song, in which she once more criticises her ex-boyfriend, retired Spanish footballer Gerard Pique.
In the summer of 2022, Shakira released a statement to confirm her breakup with former Barcelona defender Gerard Pique. The couple had been together for 11 years but parted ways after the footballer was, in claims made by El Periodico, “seen accompanied by other women”. It has also been reported that the ex-Spain international centre-back has found a new partner in Clara Chia Marti, who works for the television production company Kosmos. And Shakira has now appeared to take a dig at Pique and his supposed new partner in her latest song.
34 million people listened to “BZRP Music Session #53” in just 17 hours, and it sparked a deluge of comments.
The 45-year-old singer is unrelenting in her attack on her ex-partner, 35, and even makes fun of his 23-year-old girlfriend, Clara Chia.
“Lots of gym work, but work your mind as well,” she sings.
“You swapped a Ferrari for a (Renault) Twingo, a Rolex for a Casio,” she continues.
“I wouldn’t go back to you, even if you cried or begged me … I was out of your league and that’s why you are with someone like you.”
Shakira uses the names Pique and Clara in a few word plays to dispel any lingering questions about the song’s intended audience.
A advertising campaign for the song’s release featured an aeroplane flying above the Argentine beach town of Mar de Plata while dragging a banner with a lyric from the song on it: “A she-wolf like me is not for someone like you.”
Reactions to the song began trending on social media, where Shakira has tens of millions of followers.
It is the third song she has dedicated to the couple’s separation, which was announced in June.
The couple was together for more than a decade and have two sons: nine-year-old Milan and Sasha, seven.
They never married, and Shakira did not share her estimated $300 million fortune with Pique.
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He retired in November after a glory-laden 18-year football career, earning enough to invest in several multi-million euro business projects.
Shakira had wanted to resettle with her two children in Miami but has been ordered to stand trial in Spain for tax fraud.
Prosecutors have requested an eight-year sentence and fine of 24 million euros ($26 million) for evading 14.5 million euros worth of taxes between 2012 and 2014.
Pique was himself convicted of tax fraud in 2016 and later ordered to pay the tax office 2.1 million euros.
“You left me … with the press at the door and a debt to the treasury, you thought you hurt me and you made me tougher, women don’t cry any more, they bill,” sang Shakira, who denies all the allegations against her.
