Shakira – Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran
Label: Sony Music Latin – 19658881001
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Diamond Edition, Clear
Sealed
Gatefold Cover
Barcode (Text): 1 96588 81001 5
Country: US
Released: Mar 22, 2024
Genre: Electronic, Latin, Funk / Soul, Pop
Style: Reggaeton, Bachata, Afrobeat
Tracklist
A1 Shakira X Cardi B– Puntería
A2 Shakira X Bizarrap– La Fuerte
A3 Shakira– Tiempo Sin Verte
A4 Shakira X Rauw Alejandro– Cohete
B1 Shakira X Grupo Frontera– (Entre Paréntesis)
B2 Shakira– Cómo Dónde Y Cuándo
B3 Shakira– Nassau
B4 Shakira– Última
C1 Shakira X Rauw Alejandro– Te Felicito
C2 Shakira X Ozuna– Monotonía
C3 Shakira– Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53
C4 Shakira X Karol G– TQG
D1 Shakira X Milan + Sasha– Acróstico
D2 Shakira X Manuel Turizo– Copa Vacía
D3 Shakira X Fuerza Régida– El Jefe
D4 Shakira– Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53 (Tiësto Remix)
""Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran obsesses over the demise of Shakira’s 11-year relationship with Gerard Piqué, the former Spanish soccer player she now calls “Voldemort.” The album title originates from a lyric in the standout “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol.53,” the diss track originally recorded for Argentine DJ Bizarrap’s popular video series, and Shakira’s first all-Spanish song to reach the Hot 100. More than a year later, her digs still sting, from belittling her ex as a rookie to comparing his new girlfriend to a Twingo. Even when she’s not saying Piqué’s name, she kind of is: Imaginative, shady wordplay like “Yo solo hago música, perdón que te salpique” (roughly, “I only make music, sorry if it bothers you”) turned the song into a viral sensation. Then there’s the Kill Bill moment when Shakira reveals her intentions for this track, and perhaps to some extent, this album: “Esto es pa’ que te mortifique’/Mastique’ y trague’, trague’ y mastique’” (“This is for you to be mortified/To chew and swallow, swallow and chew”). Beneath her visceral rage is the heartbroken lover who simply wants to hurt her ex like he hurt her, to guarantee this record follows him forever.
The saga begins as a fantasy on flirty nu-disco opener “Puntería,” with Cardi B, where women are goddesses and men are horny centaurs with washboard abs. Bizarrap appears again on the squelchy electro-pop track “La Fuerte,” which pulses with 2 a.m. club heat as a post-breakup Shaki seeks refuge on the dancefloor. But as the chorus swells and the tempo quickens, it sounds as if she’s on the brink of calling her ex. “Dime dónde, cuándo y cómo,” she repeats (“Tell me where, when, and how”), her voice breaking into the high-pitched plea of romantic anguish that first defined Shakira’s music—good thing she deleted his number.
At its core, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran is a pop album for a mainstream audience, a colorful concoction of EDM-infused dance tracks, generic disco beats, and the occasional rap that’s practically designed to be edited into glossy TikToks. Under its plasticky umbrella, Shakira also flexes her chameleonic powers, fusing Afrobeats with Dominican bachata, ska with northern cumbia, and electropop with reggaetón. Angsty alt-rock songs like “Tiempo Sin Verte” and “Cómo Dónde y Cuándo” harken back to her Alanis Morissette-esque 1998 album ¿Dónde Están los Ladrones? The latter song has a scrappy, start-stop guitar riff reminiscent of “Where Is My Mind?,” recalling her affinity for Aerosmith and the Cure." (Pitchfork)
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