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Shakira’s ex sure sounds like a snake.
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The 47-year-old Colombian singer’s upcoming album will include a diss track aimed at her former soccer-playing ex Gerard Pique, whom she likened to the serpentine Harry Potter villain Voldemort in an interview with the U.K.’s Sunday Times, via the Daily Mail.
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“Voldemort, that one that shouldn’t be mentioned?” she told the Times when asked about a connection between her ex and the song Ultima from her new album Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (Women Don’t Cry Anymore). “It’s hopefully the last song that I will write about this and to him.”
Shakira and Pique, who share two children together, announced their separation in June 2022.
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The Hips Don’t Lie singer told the Times that she had to put her career on hold during the relationship so the 37-year-old World Cup winner could chase his professional dreams, which included time with famed pro clubs Manchester United and Barcelona as well as the Spanish national team.
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“For a long time, I put my career on hold to be next to Gerard, so he could play football,” Shakira told the Sunday Times.
“There was a lot of sacrifice for love.”
Shakira’s 12th studio album will be released on Friday and features 16 tracks, according to People, including eight new songs, a remix and seven previously released singles like BZRP Music Session#53 with producer Bizarrap — which is another musical roasting of Pique, who’s dating 25-year-old Spaniard Clara Chia Marti.
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Ultima was nearly left off the album, Shakira said, which she insisted she had to “spit” out or she would “choke.
“The people at Sony were like, ‘No, no, no, no, there’s no more time. This needs to be shipped, otherwise we’re not going to make it to have the vinyls ready. You can’t do anything else with this album,’” she said.
“Because I can endlessly continue working on the album, tweaking stuff, mixing and never let it go. So they were like, ‘It’s time … let it go, Shakira let it go.’ Now I’m like, ‘No, no, no, no. But there’s one more, there’s one more.’”
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