In Shakira's new track and music video, she locks away a coronary heart after a breakup whereas singing about an ex who 'did not give even half' of themselves of their failed relationship.
“It wasn’t your fault, nor was it mine. / It was the monotony’s fault I by no means mentioned something, however it harm me / I knew this could occur,” declares Shakirain the beginning of “Monotonia (Monotony),” her new track with Ozuna. Launched Wednesday (Oct. 19), “Monotonia” is Shakira’s second single following her break up from her longtime associate, Gerard Piqué. Within the lyrics – transcribed by Geniusand translated by Google – Shakira, 43, and Ozuna, 30, come collectively for a verse that addresses an unnamed lover. “You, distant along with your perspective, and that crammed me with restlessness / You didn’t give even half, however I do know that I gave greater than you.”
“I used to be working for somebody who wasn’t even strolling for me / This love has not died, however it's delirious / From what there was, there isn't a extra / I inform you truthfully / To’ is chilly like Christmas / It's higher that that is over now (Now, now),” continues the verse. The track ends with Shakira once more saying, “It wasn’t your fault, nor was it mine. / It was the monotony’s fault.”
The music video additionally captures the ache of “monotony,” with Shakira going by means of the motions of on a regular basis life earlier than an unnamed ex makes use of a rocket launcher to blow her coronary heart out of her chest. A confused Shakira wanders by means of the streets with a gaping wound by means of her torso, and her coronary heart in her hand. Finally, she finds Ozuna and is ready to safely place her coronary heart in a field, away from anybody who would harm her once more.
That is the second track from Shakira since she and Gerard, 35, known as it quits in June after eleven years collectively. In late September, Shakira launched “Te Felicito (I Congratulate You)'” The translated lyrics to the track learn, “To make you complete / I broke myself in items / I used to be warned, however I didn’t take heed / Don’t inform me you’re sorry / I do know you effectively and I do know you’re mendacity.”
“That is actually exhausting to speak about personally, particularly as that is the primary time I’ve ever addressed this case in an interview,” Shakira mentioned in a Sept. 2022 interview with Elle journal. “It’s exhausting to speak about it, particularly as a result of I’m nonetheless going by means of it.” Shakira mentioned that the break up was her “darkest hour,” and that the couple has but to set up custody of their two sons, Milan, 9, and 7-year-old Sasha.
“Generally I simply really feel like that is all a foul dream and that I’m going to get up sooner or later. However no, it’s actual,” she added. “And what’s additionally actual is the frustration to see one thing as sacred and as particular as I assumed was the connection I had with my children’ father and see that become one thing vulgarized and cheapened by the media. And all of this whereas my dad has been within the ICU, and I’ve been preventing on totally different fronts. Like I mentioned, that is in all probability the darkest hour of my life.”