Shakira Is Grateful for Heartbreak on ‘Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran,’ a Latin Pop Music Odyssey: Album Review
variety.comThania Garcia On her first album in seven years, Shakira is focused on her evolution. The singer solidified herself as a pillar of international pop stardom, propelled by her English-language debut “Laundry Service,” in 2001, and in her freshly-released “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran,” she makes a grand re-entrance into society after what she’s openly called the “darkest hours” of her life, ones defined by the tabloid gossip surrounding her finances and very public breakup with soccer player Gerard Piqué.
But don’t be mistaken: “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran” (“Women No Longer Cry”) isn’t dark thematically. Instead, Shakira flexes the progression of her longstanding craft.
She honors the rock and pop roots she cultivated in her native Barranquilla, Colombia, while also displaying her interest in regional subgenres, as she’s done in the past with Afrobeats and Arabic pop.
On her 12th studio album, Shakira fully invests in these cross-genre marvels — songs with rapper Cardi B, Tejano band Grupo Frontera, Mexican corridos group Fuerza Regida and EDM masters Bizarrap and Tiesto, among others — that together represent the soundscape of current-day Latin pop.
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