История вопроса
- С испанским футболистом Жераром Пике Шакира встретилась на съемках своего музыкального клипа на песню Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) весной 2010 года, после чего у них закрутился роман.
- За 12 лет отношений звездная пара так и не узаконила свой брак. Артистка родила Жерару двух сыновей — Милана и Сашу.
- В 2022 году Шакира и Пике расстались, по данным испанских источников, причиной послужили измены футболиста. Спортсмен якобы часто покидал дом и ездил по ночным клубам в компании хавбека Рики Пуча. К окончательному разрыву привело то, что Шакира застала Пике с другой женщиной.
- Летом 2022-го между бывшими возлюбленными возник конфликт: Шакира хотела увезти детей в США, так как не собиралась оставаться в Испании, где раньше жила с футболистом. Однако Пике считал, что мальчики должны расти в Барселоне. По итогу судебных разбирательств певица получила полную опеку над детьми.
- Из-за проживания в Испании у Шакиры возникли проблемы с налоговой. Певицу подозревают в уклонении от уплаты налогов с 2012 по 2014 год. Органы добиваются 8-летнего тюремного заключения для певицы и штрафа в размере более €23 млн. Шакира отрицает все обвинения.
Прецедент
Известные исполнители довольно часто посвящают свои песни возлюбленным — в том числе бывшим.
В 2018-м, после разрыва с рэпером G-Eazy, певица Холзи выпустила трек Without me, в котором рассказала, как много заботы она дала человеку, разбившему ей сердце. Фанаты артистки заметили, что ее партнер в клипе внешне похож на реального бывшего бойфренда. Кроме того, на одном из своих выступлений позади Холзи высвечивались названия мест, где ей изменял рэпер: «Дома в Лос-Анджелесе», «В Остине», «Еще места, которые я даже не могу вспомнить». В центре была надпись «Эшли (настоящее имя певицы. — Прим. ред.), прости, что обманул».
Фото обложки: Cezaro De Luca / dpa / picture-alliance / TASS
Реакция
- В соцсетях отрывок новой песни Шакиры собрал более 90 млн просмотров и свыше 8 млн лайков. Под записью супруга Лионеля Месси, Антонелла Рокуццо, оставила много эмодзи с «огоньками». Комментарий аргентинки стал самым залайканным.
- Поставила «огоньки» и бывшая «Мисс Хорватия» модель Ивана Кнолль, которая прославилась из-за своих откровенных нарядов на матчах ЧМ-2022 в Катаре.
На релиз отреагировали и другие звезды.
- «Музыкальный психолог», — написал защитник сборной Аргентины и «Севильи» Николас Тальяфико.
- «Очередной бэнгер! (заедающий текст песни. — Прим. ред.)», — нидерландский диджей Tiësto.
- «Уффф, легендарная Шакира», — венесуэльский рэпер Neutro Shorty.
- «Немного валерьянки для Пике. Спасибо!»
- «Ты королева!»
- «Жестко, кто-нибудь позвоните в 911».
- «Что-то историческое!»
Трек Шакиры также привлек внимание венесуэльской певицы Бриэллы, которая заявила, что он похож на ее песню Solo Tú, выпущенную в прошлом году. Исполнительница отметила, что она поклонница колумбийки, но считает, что та «вдохновлялась» ее композицией и должна была упомянуть об этом
Shakira’s new hit: it’s a sensational torpedo on Piqué and his new girlfriend
“You swapped a Ferrari for a Twingo, you swapped a Rolex for a Casio…”. Shakira destroys ex-boyfriend Gerard Piqué, Barcelona soccer player, with a song full of torpedoes to the ex and his current partner with whom he had cheated on her, Clara Chia Marti, who is more than 20 years younger than Shakira.
The Colombian singer-songwriter is the voice of Vol. 53 of “Bzrp music sessions”, a format by the Argentine producer recognized as one of the most important producers in the world. In this session, the producer used distinctive synthesizers and together with Shakira has created a unique and modern sound with references to the music of the 80s.
And there it is translationcreated by Fanpage, some really explicit text at the end of a love story that ended as badly as it could have:
(For the likes of you, uh-uh-uh-uh-uh)
Oh-oh (Oh-oh)
(For people like you, uh-uh-uh-uh-uh)
I’m sorry, I’ve already taken another plane.
I will not be returning here, I don’t want another disappointment.
You are a champion
And when I needed you, you gave your worst version
I’m sorry honey, it’s been a while.
I should have kicked that cat out
A she-wolf like me is not for rookies
A she-wolf like me is not for guys like you, uh-uh-uh-uh-uh
For people like you, uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh
I’m over you and that’s why you’re with a girl just like you, uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh
Oh-oh, oh-oh
This is for me to mortify you, chew and swallow, swallow and chew, swallow and chew.
I won’t go back to you, I won’t go back to you, I won’t go back to you, I won’t go back to you, I won’t go back to you, I won’t go back to you
I realized that it’s not my fault if they criticize you.
I just make music, I’m sorry I hit you
You left me with my mother-in-law’s neighbor
With the press at the door and the tax debt
You thought you hurt me and you made me tougher
Women no longer cry, women invoice
He has a decent person’s name
It’s clearly not what it seems
He has a decent person’s name
Clearly
She’s just like you, uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh
For people like you, uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh
I’m over you and that’s why you’re with someone like you, uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh
Oh-oh, oh-oh
From love to hate there is only one step to take
Don’t come back this way, take it from me
No hard feelings honey, I wish you well with my so-called replacement
I don’t even know what happened to you…
You are so strange that I can’t even tell you apart.
I’m worth two 22s
You traded a Ferrari for a Twingo
You traded a Rolex for a Casio
You’re going fast, slow down
Ah, lots of gym
But let your brain work a little too
Pictures where you see me
I feel like a hostage here, that’s no problem for me
I’ll dump you tomorrow and if you want to bring her to you, bring her too.
He’s got a nice guy name (Uh-uh-uh-uh)
It’s clearly not what it seems (Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh)
He’s got a nice guy name (Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh)
And a she-wolf like me is not for guys like you, uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh
And a wolf like me is not for guys like you, uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh
I’m over you and that’s why you’re with a girl just like you, uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh
Oh-oh, oh-oh
Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh
For guys like you, uh-uh-uh-uh-uh
I’m over you and that’s why you’re with someone like you, uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh
It is all ready
Oh-oh, oh-oh
That’s it, bye
Ferrari vs. Twingo, Rolex vs. Casio: Shakira lyrics explained
It’s pretty simple: in 2023, Shakira found a Zoom interview Pique made in 2021, when they were theoretically happy together, and she identified Pique’s current girlfriend, Clara Chía Martí, at their home while Shakira was traveling for work. Shakira was reportedly “devastated” about it. The song she made in Bzrp Music Session is a long rant against Pique and his girlfriend’s behavior.
In the song lyrics, Shakira mentions how Pique found a “supposed replacement” (“mi supuesto reemplazo,” in the original Spanish lines) for her. But she points out that the comparison between her and the new girl he dates doesn’t stand: for that purpose, she uses a couple of metaphors that triggered the audience’s attention. You can find them below in Spanish and English.
Cambiaste un Ferrari por un TwingoCambiaste un Rolex por un Casio
You changed a Ferrari for a TwingoYou changed a Rolex for a Casio
The metaphor is clear to those who know the four brands: Ferrari is an Italian luxury car manufacturer and a symbol of an expensive, high-quality car. Rolex serves the same role regarding watches, unanimously considered the top quality level for a wristwatch and one of the most expensive watch brands. In these comparisons, Twingo and Casio represent the cheaper options for people who cannot afford luxury brands. Let’s understand the comparison better.
Twingo is a car model produced by the French manufacturer Renault. The first model was born in 1993, with many restylings that allowed the car to survive until modern times. There was also an electric model released in 2020. Lately, Renault dismissed the Twingo line, though. The model is not well-known in the US because Renault doesn’t cover the American market since the 80s. Shakira has been living in Spain for years, that’s why she knows it.
Renault Twingo was a family-oriented car model whose starting price was around 21.000€, so affordable for an average European family. The comparison in Shakira’s song lyrics doesn’t want to imply that Renault Twingo is a low-quality car or an extremely cheap one: it’s simply a standard, normal, average car a person could buy, especially in Europe, compared to a Ferrari, which represents a top-level car only a few selected people can afford.
The same applies to Casio and the comparison with Rolex: Rolex is the world-renowned Swiss watch brand, considered the symbol of luxury watches, whereas Casio is a Japanese electronics manufacturer that, among many other things, produces affordable watches. Altough Casio offers also some expensive models, you can buy a Casio watch in Europe for 30 or 40€ (for the US market there are also models for less than 25$). That doesn’t mean that Casio represents the stereotype of a cheap watch: simply, it’s a brand someone can choose when it comes to average price ranges, whereas Rolex is specifically oriented to the luxury market.
In her new song about Pique and Clara Chía, Shakira implies that Pique substituted a precious, unique woman with an average girl. She also implies that his new, mediocre girlfriend is a better fit for him: she sings “a ti te quedé grande y por eso estás con una igualita que tú,” which translates in English with “I’m too big/too good for you, and that’s why you’re with a girl just like you.” Angry lines, sure. But as she said in the song, “I only write music”: she doesn’t want to feel guilty about expressing her emotions through her lyrics.