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Shakira: Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran review – the Latin queen is back on top
Lawsuits and lost love couldn’t stop the Colombian powerhouse from taking her rightful place atop Spanish pop’s streaming-fuelled resurgence
Yet streaming returned her to the US Top 10 for the first time since 2007 with the Spanish-language songs TQG(with Karol G) and Bzrp Music Sessions Vol 53(with Bizarrap), hilarious, middle-finger-aloft disquisitions into her ex’s faithlessness (“You traded a Ferrari for a Twingo!”). Vocally, the “queen of Latin music” isn’t particularly distinctive, but she ranges from seductive to strident in a single line and makes both equally appealing. Última is a piano ballad on the edge of melodrama, though Shakira turns off the dry ice, dials down her wind machine and gives us something small, intimate and real.
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