Speaker 1: We have a lot to cover in this episode.
Speaker 2: Are you ready more than the last one? Girl? This fasito.
Speaker 1: It is not my fault that Shakira has one of
Speaker 1: the most impressive resumes in La industria.
Speaker 2: Give me a little recap. I don't even remember what
Speaker 2: I had for breakfast yesterday?
Speaker 1: What about today?
Speaker 2: Hall of notates.
Speaker 1: You need to stop your hollow notes hating or I
Speaker 1: will quit this podcast. Those two are legend.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, don't go your amazing fema and I know
Speaker 2: your beat is coming up. But girl, you look like
Speaker 2: you're twenty something today.
Speaker 1: You're very lucky because today your cheap flattery is actually working.
Speaker 1: Here's where we left off. Shakira had two failed albums.
Speaker 1: A third time was Indeed The Charm. The follow up
Speaker 1: album blew everyone away. She caught the attention of Gloria
Speaker 1: and Emilio Stefan, who helped her crossover, and with that crossover,
Speaker 1: Shakira became a household name, releasing hit after hit alutum wait,
Speaker 1: don't miss anything.
Speaker 2: She got us all unbothered with that Voyeur video she
Speaker 2: did with Alexandro Science you forgot that?
Speaker 1: Oh? How could I forget? Oh? And with that Let's
Speaker 1: dive into one of Shakida's most prolific.
Speaker 2: Eras the she Wolf era.
Speaker 1: We are talking all about our Loba Waca Waca, her
Speaker 1: split from a longtime partner, Antonio Larua, and the album
Speaker 1: that healed her heartbreak salel So.
Speaker 2: But for that, we need to talk about Beyonce.
Speaker 1: I'm your host Liliana Vasquez.
Speaker 2: And I'm Joseph Carrio and this is Becoming an Icon.
Speaker 1: A weekly podcast where we give you the rundown on
Speaker 1: how today's most famous LATINX stars have shaped pop culture.
Speaker 2: And given the world some extra tuble.
Speaker 1: Sit back and get comfortable.
Speaker 2: Because we are going in the only way we know how,
Speaker 2: with Buenas Bias.
Speaker 1: Junas riesas and a lot of opinions as we relive
Speaker 1: their greatest achievements on our journey to find out what
Speaker 1: makes them so iconic. You and I can both agree
Speaker 1: that the artists who discussed so far have inspired the
Speaker 1: globe many many.
Speaker 2: Peeps, one a Hundhi, even Bad Money, who's the most
Speaker 2: baby of our icons list, has already left his mark
Speaker 2: in the biz.
Speaker 1: The list goes on and on. When it comes to Shakida,
Speaker 1: then there's obvious ones like Camilicabeyo, Becky g Selena Gomez,
Speaker 1: and Christina Aguilera. But you also have people like Romeo Santos,
Speaker 1: bre Larson, Justin Bieber, Rianna Taylor Swift, and even Beyonce.
Speaker 2: Uh pre Larson, Justin Bieber.
Speaker 1: What can I say? Everybody worships at the Church of Shakda.
Speaker 2: It's the hips.
Speaker 1: As for Beyonce, this is the only chance we might
Speaker 1: have to talk about her, so let's get to it
Speaker 1: before our producers changed their mind.
Speaker 2: Actually, I think she might pop back up with our next.
Speaker 1: Icon spoilers, I want that to be a surprise for
Speaker 1: the listeners. As I was saying, Beyonce, take a shot.
Speaker 1: Whenever we say her name, nobody's going to get through
Speaker 1: this episode, Joseph.
Speaker 2: Or maybe they'll give us a five star rating. Could
Speaker 2: go either way.
Speaker 1: Tell your friends, yes, okay, So let me set the stage.
Speaker 1: The year is two thousand and seven.
Speaker 2: Is this going to be on the test, Joseph, I'm discussing,
Speaker 2: need to keep on.
Speaker 1: The number one song that year was Beyonce's Irreplaceable Yellows Yellows.
Speaker 1: She debuted her solo album and the final Destiny's Child
Speaker 1: album was already out so for her next act, be said,
Speaker 1: you know what, let me change some lives.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure she thinks that whenever she's about to
Speaker 2: go into the studio, to be honest, go to the.
Speaker 1: Studio, you think Beyonce goes to a studio, Bitch, that
Speaker 1: studio comes to her.
Speaker 2: So she comes out with b day on her list,
Speaker 2: twenty fifth birthday and everyone is loving it.
Speaker 1: By this point, Beyonce could have collaborated with whoever she wanted, and.
Speaker 2: She chose Chekina. The collab itself was something that stemmed
Speaker 2: from mutual admiration.
Speaker 1: They'd met numerous times, paths crossing at award shows and whatnot,
Speaker 1: and they had always had plans to collaborate.
Speaker 2: Sounds familiar, yes.
Speaker 1: The old let's have lunch and then you know you
Speaker 1: never meet up, But this case was different. Beyonce and
Speaker 1: Shakira followed through.
Speaker 2: And that's on emotional maturity, Mama.
Speaker 1: After years of admiring each other's work, they were able
Speaker 1: to record the song together, which, thank the Lord, because
Speaker 1: that song is Fuagle.
Speaker 2: Praise him. Do you remember what you were doing when
Speaker 2: it came out? It was like confebs February two thousand
Speaker 2: and seven.
Speaker 1: How do you remember that when you don't even remember
Speaker 1: my name? Sometimes?
Speaker 2: Guys, it was the collab.
Speaker 1: It was really good. We've gotten to go back and
Speaker 1: listen to so much Beyonce and Shakira old music and
Speaker 1: the marriage of those two women in this song with
Speaker 1: their voices. It's something that I never thought would happen.
Speaker 2: I agree, And the timing is just so perfect. Also,
Speaker 2: pairing two powerhouses.
Speaker 1: It's recipe for success, but sometimes it doesn't work. Sometimes
Speaker 1: one overshadows the other or overpowers the other, or there's
Speaker 1: rumors of bad blood on set. Why do you feel
Speaker 1: like this song worked so well, Beyonce?
Speaker 2: I don't feel like she was trying to take the lead,
Speaker 2: And I think that they were both fifty to fifty
Speaker 2: in on the song. They both sang it equally.
Speaker 1: And it's interesting because while they never met in person
Speaker 1: to actually record these vocals for that song, we can
Speaker 1: all agree that the mix on this was magic.
Speaker 2: It was a nice prosole combining both these powerhouse singers.
Speaker 2: It was the R and B, the hip hop pop
Speaker 2: mixed with Middle Eastern and Latino.
Speaker 1: And one of the best parts is how they open
Speaker 1: it by saying their name so good and I know
Speaker 1: now it's super common like DJ dj KAL. At that time,
Speaker 1: it felt like they were just letting you know who
Speaker 1: was boss and about to bless your eardrops for real.
Speaker 2: And another great part about this song is how much
Speaker 2: they're hyping each other up. These two women agree that
Speaker 2: the boy is not worth their time or peace of mind.
Speaker 1: It's a true girl anthem and girls, guys, if you're listening,
Speaker 1: they're not worth your time and.
Speaker 2: The youth deserves to know that. Start them off young.
Speaker 1: Now. Compared to the music video for Shakira's Objection, where
Speaker 1: she this is the other woman for her cheap silkon
Speaker 1: for us, I think Shakira has come a long way off. Disclaimer,
Speaker 1: we are not taking the recent piquet this is into
Speaker 1: consideration at this moment. We're going to save that juicy
Speaker 1: nugget for a little lad.
Speaker 2: Speaking of music videos, the one for Beautiful Liar bless
Speaker 2: Me Queens.
Speaker 1: The video won the VMA for most earth Shattering Collaboration
Speaker 1: at the two thousand and seven MTV Video Music Awards.
Speaker 2: Earth Shattering Collaboration, that's a category. You know.
Speaker 1: MTV has a lot of fun with the categories, and
Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven.
Speaker 2: It sure was their impact. The VMA's made the category
Speaker 2: because of them. Nobody can change my mind.
Speaker 1: We can all agree that Shakida and Beyonce are two
Speaker 1: of the busiest women on the planet, and that made
Speaker 1: shooting this video so difficult. They didn't even have time
Speaker 1: to choreograph it beforehand. I don't know if you guys
Speaker 1: know this, but they practically made it all up on
Speaker 1: the spot, and they rehearsed right before they filmed.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Shakira took the lead for most of it and was
Speaker 1: the one that taught Beyonce had a belly dance.
Speaker 2: Ooh girl, and we thank you for your service, Shakida.
Speaker 1: The video, without a doubt, instantly made them the sexiest
Speaker 1: women in the industry, upstaging my favorite Latortua. I mean,
Speaker 1: when you just have two beautiful women dancing away las
Speaker 1: malas vibras for a good for nothing Chico.
Speaker 2: Okay, I have to say it. I think we're all one,
Speaker 2: so I'm just gonna say it. This de la rue
Speaker 2: fella had to be a trifling man. Why is Shakira
Speaker 2: always singing about cheating? Did he cheat? Did she cheat?
Speaker 2: I have so many questions.
Speaker 1: And we will get to those very soon. At least
Speaker 1: this time around, though, Shakira isn't singing about dragging the
Speaker 1: other woman through the dirt. Instead, this distract is about
Speaker 1: two women that realize their energy is best meent calling
Speaker 1: the fucker out and I'm moving on true that.
Speaker 2: So, what's next on Cheky? That's busy schedule.
Speaker 1: Writing the music for the adaptation of Love and the
Speaker 1: Time of Cholera?
Speaker 2: What's my man thinking with these titles?
Speaker 1: I think you need to say that for your literary
Speaker 1: critique podcast.
Speaker 2: No one is Safe. I'm looking at you, Joseph Heller.
Speaker 1: The film was based on the nineteen eighty five novel
Speaker 1: of the same name by Gabriel jose L Concordia Garcia Marquez,
Speaker 1: also known as Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Let's just go
Speaker 1: with Gobble Gobbo.
Speaker 2: It just makes it so much easier AKA very famous,
Speaker 2: very prolific Colombian writer. Shakita ended up writing a couple
Speaker 2: of songs for the soundtrack, but the one that stood
Speaker 2: out was this Bedida.
Speaker 1: This Bdi that was nominated for Best Original Song at
Speaker 1: the sixty fifth Golden Globes.
Speaker 2: So close to that egot.
Speaker 1: You could almost touch it now. The best part. Gobbel
Speaker 1: personally asked her to do it.
Speaker 2: Hold up, you mean to tell me the father of
Speaker 2: magical realism, realistically Ashakta to create some magic word.
Speaker 1: Well, you have to remember they go way way back.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I think we are too narrow minded about our
Speaker 1: pop stars, rock stars, musicians, Like sometimes I feel like
Speaker 1: we don't give them enough intellectual credit. Do you agree?
Speaker 2: I do? I do. I'll speak for myself. I'm not
Speaker 2: saying I'm a pop star. I am. I like to
Speaker 2: hang around with people who know a lot more things
Speaker 2: than I do, And so I feel like Shakda is
Speaker 2: really into poetry, really into art, really into political things.
Speaker 2: So her hanging out with a guy like this, I
Speaker 2: don't think sounds crazy. I think it's an inspiration.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think again, sometimes we have very narrow minded
Speaker 1: opinions of our pop icons or our pop stars, and
Speaker 1: we judge them for maybe how they look on the outside,
Speaker 1: but we aren't really tapping into who they are on
Speaker 1: the inside. So, yes, Shakira has the crazy wild hair,
Speaker 1: she's swinging her hips, she's covered in black paint, gyrating
Speaker 1: on a floor to Alejandro's sons, dancing around barefoot. But
Speaker 1: she's also incredibly deep. She's smart, she's a poet, so
Speaker 1: the fact that she was hanging around with Gobble makes
Speaker 1: perfect sense.
Speaker 2: Also, I feel like she's spiritual, and talking to someone
Speaker 2: who is really in touch with themselves takes you there
Speaker 2: and maybe just really she got to take a deeper
Speaker 2: look into herself and write even better and understand her
Speaker 2: feelings more soundly.
Speaker 1: Well, I can't imagine a better teacher when it comes
Speaker 1: to writing and really expressing what's deep the core of
Speaker 1: your vulnerability and of your humanity than somebody like Gobble.
Speaker 2: Well, I think you're a really good teacher. Thank you.
Speaker 2: She was different, and people appreciated that she was someone
Speaker 2: to watch.
Speaker 1: In two thousand and eight, Forbes named Shikida the fourth
Speaker 1: top earning female artist in the music industry. She followed
Speaker 1: in Ricky and Jalo's footsteps and performed for a president.
Speaker 2: Please Say Obama, Please Say Obama. It was hell yeah.
Speaker 1: She performed at the Lincoln Memorial for his inauguration alongside
Speaker 1: Stevie Wonder and Usher. Sure Yes, and unlike other inaugurations,
Speaker 1: Obama drew a huge crowd.
Speaker 2: I can only think of one way to follow up
Speaker 2: performing in front.
Speaker 1: Of so many I'm Afraid to ask.
Speaker 2: By dangling upside down from a cage in a nude bodysuit.
Speaker 1: Oh well, actually yeah, that's exactly what she did. The
Speaker 1: following year, Shakira followed up the success of her Oral
Speaker 1: Fixation duology and her collab with Beyonce with She Wolf.
Speaker 2: She Wolf was different.
Speaker 1: Shakida had reached international acclaim following the success of both
Speaker 1: Oral Fixation albums Hips Don't Lie had proved a beacon
Speaker 1: for her career.
Speaker 2: You can still feel the impact to this day.
Speaker 1: However, the most interesting detail about Shakira's music is that
Speaker 1: critics don't often really vibe with it. They have no taste, zero,
Speaker 1: and yet it always makes its way into lists like
Speaker 1: Top Albums of the Year.
Speaker 2: What's the tea Critics? They don't know anything.
Speaker 1: One thing they can't deny is that Shakira puts her
Speaker 1: heart and soul into her music. For this album, she
Speaker 1: enlisted inspiration from those who have inspired her. Shaki recorded
Speaker 1: She Wolf at the Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas,
Speaker 1: where the likes of Bob Marley, The Cure and even
Speaker 1: ac DC have recorded.
Speaker 2: Amazing and those influences were working over time. Because this
Speaker 2: album was less of the Latin pop and rock feels
Speaker 2: we'd gotten before. No, No Honey, Shakia delivered an electro
Speaker 2: pop and new wave phenomenon.
Speaker 1: Which come on. One of the collaborators on this is
Speaker 1: Pharrell Williams. You can't not have that kind of experimental
Speaker 1: rhythm when you're working with.
Speaker 2: Pharrell, I mean, bottom line, it's no surprise that this
Speaker 2: was the new direction she was taking. Electronic music would
Speaker 2: soon take over the sound waves. There was LMFAO, scrillicks,
Speaker 2: you name it, everyone was on it.
Speaker 1: In just two thousand and nine alone, the top hits
Speaker 1: of the year had She Woke, But there's also a
Speaker 1: Lady Gaga with Just Dance, Love TII and Rihannas Live
Speaker 1: Your Life Length and Henrianna again but this time with
Speaker 1: Jay Z and Kanye West with their hit Run This Town.
Speaker 1: What do you remember about this era of music in
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine and nine.
Speaker 2: I remember Grinder, I remember Grinder came about. I remember
Speaker 2: here as you sure. I remember Kanye taking the mic
Speaker 2: from Taylor's with That was in two thousand and nine.
Speaker 1: Right, those are a wild time.
Speaker 2: It was chaos. Two thousand and nine was chaos.
Speaker 1: And we just wanted to dance it all away. Well,
Speaker 1: the direction she was taking seemed obvious. Many were still
Speaker 1: curious about this change in style for Shakda.
Speaker 2: How did she go from donnez to a bop like
Speaker 2: She Wolf.
Speaker 1: It's actually pretty simple. She's a chameleon, and as we've
Speaker 1: seen so far in her career, we're going to continue
Speaker 1: seeing that she's always able to shift and mold herself
Speaker 1: to what's currently in or popular, but she still does
Speaker 1: that by making that music her own. Take She Wolf
Speaker 1: for example, right, you have her dancing around this particular
Speaker 1: mix of music, all sexy and shit, and then by
Speaker 1: the end she's this innocent, wholesome kind of seductress as
Speaker 1: she goes back to the dance moves that we've always
Speaker 1: known from her.
Speaker 2: She doesn't really chase the trends, she modifies them.
Speaker 1: It's a great way to describe it. And she took
Speaker 1: this bustling electropop genre and combined it with influences from
Speaker 1: around the world like Africa, Columbia, India, and the Middle.
Speaker 2: She described it all as quote sonic experimental trip.
Speaker 1: And when asked about the title, Shakira had this to say.
Speaker 1: She Wolf is the woman of our time, the woman
Speaker 1: who knows what she wants and is free of prejudice
Speaker 1: and preconceived notions. She defends her deepest desires with teeth
Speaker 1: and claws like a wild animal. Following the success of
Speaker 1: She Wolf, she doubled down and collaborated with Freshly Ground
Speaker 1: for the FIFA song we Still Can't stop singing along
Speaker 1: to to This Day's Africa Waka Waka. Her version not
Speaker 1: Ours quickly became the biggest selling World Cup song of
Speaker 1: all time. This song has been viewed on YouTube. Wait
Speaker 1: guess how many times, Joseph.
Speaker 2: I can't. I can't even guess. It has to be astronomical.
Speaker 2: Pick three point five billion. I knew the number, bitch,
Speaker 2: you are sold. But do you think the song was
Speaker 2: bigger than.
Speaker 1: Ricky Martin's Yeah. Like, by the way, I love Cup
Speaker 1: of Life so good just the sound of this, but
Speaker 1: it's not as good as Waka Waka. Like again, remember
Speaker 1: when I said to you that I was sitting in
Speaker 1: my childhood bedroom in Hurst, Texas listening to Shakda Transport
Speaker 1: Me to the Middle East. Now here's Waka Waka. She's
Speaker 1: transporting every person to Africa for the World Cup. Yeah,
Speaker 1: her music is global not just global. It's transformative for
Speaker 1: people because it opens their eyes and ears to a
Speaker 1: whole new sound, a whole new part of the world,
Speaker 1: And like, what a beautiful way to experience new culture.
Speaker 1: There's no better way to experience culture, at least I
Speaker 1: think than through the food and music of that culture word,
Speaker 1: and that's what she did. I couldn't be at the
Speaker 1: World Cup, but I felt like I was a world cut.
Speaker 2: I did feel like it.
Speaker 1: It's so good it took me there. Unfortunately, not everything
Speaker 1: was milk and honey.
Speaker 2: Great. Now I have the munchies. I'm hungry. Hold that thought.
Speaker 1: There was trouble in Paradise because Shakira's love life was
Speaker 1: headed for a dead end when her longtime partner Antonio
Speaker 1: de Arua decided to take Shakira took court.
Speaker 2: Shakita wasn't shy about her relationship with Antonio.
Speaker 1: She began dating the Argentine lawyer back in two thousand.
Speaker 2: Please refer to the laundry service section of the second
Speaker 2: episode on Shakira.
Speaker 1: They were happily in love for almost ten years through
Speaker 1: her crossover and her There are numerous albums After that,
Speaker 1: public perception of their relationship started to shift when in
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, Shakira responded to questions on their
Speaker 1: status by saying that they don't need to get married
Speaker 1: to them, marriage was a formality, and.
Speaker 2: This won't be the last time she takes this stance.
Speaker 1: P Que hold that thought as well. Please her and
Speaker 1: Antonio basically function as a married couple and for them,
Speaker 1: well that was enough.
Speaker 2: Or so they said, because a year later, in August
Speaker 2: twenty ten, they broke up. They were on a break
Speaker 2: now uh ask rust and Rachel.
Speaker 1: She called it a quote mutual decision to take time
Speaker 1: apart from our romantic relationship.
Speaker 2: It's never mutual, Gattigne.
Speaker 1: And it was supposed to be temporary.
Speaker 2: It's never temporary.
Speaker 1: And he would continue overseeing her career since he was
Speaker 1: her lawyer.
Speaker 2: Red flag.
Speaker 1: Fast forward to twenty thirteen. That guy sued her.
Speaker 2: There it is the other shoe.
Speaker 1: Dirupt and he asked for wait for it, one hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars that he believed was owed to.
Speaker 2: Him, one hundred million dollars. Do you know what you
Speaker 2: have to do to earn one hundred million dollars?
Speaker 1: You have to first let us let's let the listeners
Speaker 1: use their imaginations.
Speaker 2: Well, I have some innovative ideas if y'all want it.
Speaker 1: Antonio claimed that Shakira owed her success to him. She
Speaker 1: wouldn't be where she was if it wasn't for him.
Speaker 2: Uh, he got fifty cent peti hanging.
Speaker 1: And it didn't matter anyway, because his lawsuit was dismissed
Speaker 1: and Shakira was a free woman again until Spain got
Speaker 1: to her. But that's for another time.
Speaker 2: It is Kanderlo.
Speaker 1: This does, however, bring us to something you mentioned earlier.
Speaker 2: Oh, Gerard. They made the relationship a fish in twenty eleven.
Speaker 1: One year after a meeting at the FIFA World Cup.
Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on, there's some cross over here.
Speaker 1: Now, well a little are she wolf?
Speaker 2: She Wolf? More like cougar? Me out?
Speaker 1: You couldn't resist good to.
Speaker 2: Nope, Our cougar is almost a decade older than PK.
Speaker 2: You go, Mama.
Speaker 1: Pik and Shakira met on the set for her music
Speaker 1: video for Waka Waka, and you'll get all the cheese
Speaker 1: men on those two next week. For now, let's focus
Speaker 1: on the music. Following the success of Waka Waka, Shakira
Speaker 1: released her ninth album, Sally So.
Speaker 2: The album is a perfect blend of her sounds her
Speaker 2: classic style blended with hints of new direction. No, not
Speaker 2: one direction.
Speaker 1: When describing the album, this is what Shaki had to say.
Speaker 1: This album represents exactly the way I am, my state
Speaker 1: of mind today as an artist and as a woman.
Speaker 1: Some of the songs remind me of my beginnings, so
Speaker 1: it's kind of like going back to where everything started,
Speaker 1: but from a new perspective with the way I see
Speaker 1: things now now. Salid Sold is considered to be Shakira's
Speaker 1: return to her roots, and when you listen to it,
Speaker 1: you definitely get like those early Shakira rock and roll vibes,
Speaker 1: but a little Colombian and also like a ton of
Speaker 1: pop Latino. What were your thoughts on this album, Joseph.
Speaker 2: Well, Number one. When the song came out, I was
Speaker 2: going to the gay bars and Loka was fucking everywhere,
Speaker 2: and I was like, look, Gon, look Gon, Lka, And
Speaker 2: you know that made me Loka because I am Oka.
Speaker 2: So that is the first thing that I could think
Speaker 2: of right now that we're talking about it. What about you?
Speaker 1: I think for me, it was just the constant, I
Speaker 1: don't know, self discovery element of her, like she's not
Speaker 1: afraid to try something different, and I feel like for
Speaker 1: so many of us, You and I have talked about
Speaker 1: this a lot, right, like we kind of get stuck
Speaker 1: in this rut of who we are, how we sound,
Speaker 1: what people think of us. Shakira just has this really
Speaker 1: innate ability to just throw like all caution to the
Speaker 1: wind musically and personally and be like, you know what,
Speaker 1: f it Like, I want to try something new, I
Speaker 1: want to try something different. And a lot of people
Speaker 1: will say when you have that level of fame and success,
Speaker 1: like you're almost too big to fail, but you're not.
Speaker 1: You can have a failure commercially and it can really
Speaker 1: set back your career. But our little Lobita, I mean,
Speaker 1: she's unafraid.
Speaker 2: Also because I don't think she cares. I'll tell you
Speaker 2: why she is writing the music that comes from her,
Speaker 2: you know, so if it's a failure or not, it's like,
Speaker 2: this is what she's fucking feeling. This is this is
Speaker 2: the song. It's a looka, it's a rabiosa, it's stilet soul.
Speaker 2: It's like we get to evolve with her as they go.
Speaker 1: Completely and The album debuted at number seven on the
Speaker 1: US Billboard two hundred chart, marking the highest debut for
Speaker 1: a Latin album for the year, and with Shakira's fifth
Speaker 1: album to peak at number one.
Speaker 2: At the twenty eleven Latin Grammy Award ceremony, Salle Sold
Speaker 2: won Best Female Pop Vocal Album.
Speaker 1: In November of that year, Shakira was also honored as
Speaker 1: the Latin Recording Academy's Person of the Year.
Speaker 2: This was her year she survived Antonio's pettias attempts at
Speaker 2: bringing her down. A girl was at her peak.
Speaker 1: Or so she thought. Shakira was about to become a
Speaker 1: Mama Wolf when it came to sale Luson Shakira stated
Speaker 1: that there were three layers of the album, a romantic one,
Speaker 1: a very rock and roll one, and a Latino tropical one.
Speaker 1: But Shaki admitted that she hadn't tapped into romance for
Speaker 1: three years prior to the album Ooh the Siderene, and
Speaker 1: it was refreshing for her to feel those emotions again.
Speaker 2: No wonder why rol was salty. However, this time love
Speaker 2: was truly in the air because Homegirl was pregnant with
Speaker 2: her first baby.
Speaker 1: Yes, in between all of those gigs, Shakira gave birth
Speaker 1: to her first son with Pique Milan and Barcelona, but.
Speaker 2: No nesting for her post baby, she immediately started as
Speaker 2: a judge on The Voice That's Right.
Speaker 1: Shakira and Usher replaced Christina Aguilera and Celo Green as
Speaker 1: coaches for the fourth season, alongside Adam Levine and Blake Shelton.
Speaker 2: Sure you got to get that check, honey. Those diapers
Speaker 2: ain't cheap.
Speaker 1: No, babies are really expensive. And through that all, Shakira
Speaker 1: had originally planned to release her next album around the
Speaker 1: same time, but for the moment, family came first, so
Speaker 1: all her projects were put on pause for almost two years.
Speaker 2: But if there's one thing Shakida fans know by now,
Speaker 2: it's patience.
Speaker 1: And Shakira's self titled ten studio album was later released
Speaker 1: on March twenty fifth, twenty fourteen. Describing the album, she
Speaker 1: put it best in the end, what I realize is
Speaker 1: that throughout the course of creating this body of work,
Speaker 1: I learned a lot about myself. Though I didn't realize
Speaker 1: it at the time, all the directions I began exploring
Speaker 1: in the initial phases of recording were helping to pave
Speaker 1: a path for me of rediscovery. Most importantly, I am
Speaker 1: enough imperfections and all, so what I'm offering you now is.
Speaker 2: Us that it was honest and most of her records.
Speaker 1: Are they are And the album had three singles, Can't Remember,
Speaker 1: to Forget You, Empire, and Dare.
Speaker 2: Yet another World Cup hit, this time featuring Brazilian musician
Speaker 2: Carlinos Brown.
Speaker 1: On July thirteenth, twenty fourteen, Shakira performed La La La
Speaker 1: alongside Carlinos Brown at the World Cup closing ceremony. This
Speaker 1: performance became her third consecutive appearance at the event.
Speaker 2: Ugh, FIFA just can't get enough of Shaikida and the
Speaker 2: NFL was taking notes.
Speaker 1: Shakira was on top of the world. She was living
Speaker 1: her life by her rules. But even icons can't escape
Speaker 1: life certainties. I know, death in taxes, lost Joseph. In
Speaker 1: her next chapter, Shakira will face the loss of one
Speaker 1: of her closest friends and collaborators and her voice.
Speaker 2: And and say it out.
Speaker 1: Loud, Yes, her decade long lover peak.
Speaker 2: That is what I'm talking about. We got to give
Speaker 2: the listeners what they want.
Speaker 1: Oh, we will on the next Becoming an Icon. Becoming
Speaker 1: an Icon is presented by Sonoo and Iheart's Michael Guda
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