The Colombian singer Shakira is one of the most acclaimed international artists by critics and fans. After divorcing the former Catalan footballer and businessman Gerard Piqué and discovering that he supposedly had a double life with a young woman called Clara Chía, Milan and Sasha's mother, she released a song with the Argentine producer Bizarrap that went viral and beat all the music records in Spanish: the Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53.
In this song, the interpreter of Loba, Monotonía, Las de la Intuitión or TQG throws direct darts against her ex and her new dream: ''She has the name of a good person, Clearly it's not what it sounds like'', ''Of love to hate there is a step here don't come back', listen to me'', 'You left my mother-in-law as a neighbor with the press at the door and the debt in the Treasury'', 'I've grown out of you and that's why you're with someone just like you'', etc.
The literalness with which Shakira expressed herself through her music caught the attention of her followers, who are not used to such direct lyrics. However, this formula was not invented by Shakira.
In 1978, the singer and actress María Jiménez, who died this morning at the age of 73 in her home in Seville, released It's Over, a song in which she narrated how she had ended an abusive relationship. The song caused a great social stir, but became an unprecedented success in the career of the artist, who was classified as ''crazy'' by some and ''brave'' by many others.
''It's over, because I decided to do it and I suffered like no one else had suffered before. And my skin was left empty and alone, hopeless in oblivion. And after fighting against death, I began to recover a little and I forgot everything I loved you and now now, now now, my world is another'', says the song that became a hymn in a difficult time in which the figure of the woman was questioned for the smallest detail.
Since she released that song, María Jiménez became a feminist icon of our country. In addition, her television interventions and interviews of her talking about the mistreatment she suffered from one of her partners made her a national benchmark against gender violence.
Both Jiménez and Shakira used the music to send a message to their ex-partners, a clear empowering dart in which both explained that the blindfold had already fallen off and that they had realized that they deserved someone better in their lives. .
