She’d already drafted the lyrics to the tune by that time, however there, sitting in a high-profile-recording-artist sandwich (Camila Cabello was sat between them), Shakira discovered her good collaborator. “The tune represents the new child girl,” Shakira explains. “After you move by means of the storm, you begin to join with the lady within you, with these womanly wants, your needs, and your passions.” I can consider few girls who categorical their passions and needs extra freely than Cardi B.

The music video additionally serves as an introduction to Shakira’s new album, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran/Ladies No Longer Cry, which she launched on the similar time. It is the primary album she’s put out in seven years. Collectively, the 16 tracks are an ode to self-preservation amid hardship — one thing Shakira is aware of effectively after a really public breakup with former soccer participant Gerard Piqué. “I used to be within the mud,” she says. “Making this music has proven me that my ache will be remodeled into triumph.”

If her new music has one aim, it is to “construct bridges, to empower folks, to assist girls uncover their very own strengths.” Taking pictures attractive centaurs within the coronary heart and banishing them into house is simply step one, one which encapsulates the singer’s experiences of being reborn by means of penning this document. “I’ve rebuilt myself within the methods I imagine are applicable,” she says. “Nobody tells me how you can cry or when to cry; nobody tells me how you can increase my kids, nobody tells me how I turn into a greater model of myself. I resolve that.”