“I ran for someone who didn’t even run for me,” Shakira sings in “Monotonía”. She leaves it open whether the singer is referring to her separation with these lines. But one thing is clear: the music video shows the 45-year-old with a huge hole in her chest.
Shakira hasn’t had it easy in recent months: First, she and her longtime husband Gerard Piqué announced their separation. Now she is being tried in her adopted country of Spain for tax evasion. But all that doesn’t stop the Colombian from releasing new music. Her new song “Monotonía” premiered on Thursday night. The duet with Puerto Rican singer Ozuna has special significance in light of what happened.
“It wasn’t your fault, it wasn’t my fault. It was the fault of the monotony. I never said anything, but it hurt. I knew it would happen,” sings the native Colombian at the beginning of the song. In the further stanzas it says: “Suddenly you weren’t the same anymore, you left me because of your narcissism.” And: “I ran for someone who didn’t even run for me.”
Although the musician does not provide any indication that these lines are about her own separation, she only recently announced that she was still suffering from the marriage. “I was silent and tried to process it, it’s difficult to talk about it,” she told Elle in September.
The accompanying music video for the single has it all. In a supermarket, Shakira meets Ozuna, who appears to be her ex-boyfriend. With a gun he shoots the singer a hole in the chest. Seriously injured, the 45-year-old literally takes her heart in her hands and wanders through crowds with it. At the end of the clip, she manages to get the heart locked up.
