In her new music, Shakira expresses her emotions about her breakup from Gerard. The singer told the Times that her new album represents “the transformation of pain into creativity, frustration into productivity, anger into passion, vulnerability into resilience.”
Case in point: Track ”BZRP Music Session #53,” released as a single in January 2023—two weeks before Gerard and Clara Chia Marti made their romance Instagram official—contains the Spanish lyrics, translated to English: “A she-wolf like me isn’t for guys like you, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh / For guys like you, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh / I was out of your league, that’s why you’re / With someone just like you, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh.”
As for how her and Gerard’s sons feel about the song, Shakira told the Times, ”They know that there’s only one way to live life and it’s accepting the pain. And each one of us has different ways of doing that.”
And Milan is following in his mother’s footsteps as he processes his parents’ breakup. ”When his father and I were going through separation, he wrote two amazing songs,” Shakira told the newspaper, “the kind that will bring you to tears.”
Look back at Shakira’s family photos over the years: