Shakira
Global superstar Shakira released her highly anticipated twelfth album La Mujeres Ya No Lloran earlier this year, her first in seven years and a welcome marker of her legacy today. Later this fall, Shakira will be taking the album—and her three decades of hits—on the road for the La Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour. But before she hits the road, the Colombian hitmaker might already have another project up her sleeve ready to go.
“Soltera,” Shakira’s newest single, is out now, and while it wasn’t featured on the album, the standalone track could be part of a forthcoming release. When speaking to Rolling Stone in June about the album’s creation, she hinted that she had some more music in the vault that could be on the way. “There’s a few songs we have laying around,” she said. “They’ve been tucked away. I don’t have a new album, but let’s just say there’s a new project.”
On “Soltera,” Shakira sings in Spanish about having the right to behave badly and have a good time, celebrating being free and doing as she pleases, and enjoying living a single life. The song is in some ways a spiritual successor to last year’s “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53,” her scathing dismissal of ex Gerard Piqué that became a runaway smash and her first top-ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in nearly two decades. Similar to the joy of “Soltera,” the track was a moment of great catharsis for the Grammy Award winner.
“I’m an artist. I am a woman. And I’m a wounded she-wolf. And no one should tell me how to lick my wounds,” she told Rolling Stone of her thoughts on processing her breakup publicly through music. “We’re in a society that’s used to seeing women confront pain in a submissive way, and I think that’s changed.”
The La Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour kicks off Nov. 2 in Palm Desert, CA and wraps up Dec. 15 in Detroit.
