“It was the husband-factor. Now I am husband-less. Yeah, the husband was dragging me down. Now I am free. Now I can really work.”

The Colombian singer was a visitor on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon Monday, the place she opened up about her cut up from Gerard Piqué, and the way it spurred her return to music.

“I have been placing out music right here and there nevertheless it was actually arduous for me to place collectively a physique of labor,” Shakira mentioned of her new album, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran — her first in seven years.

Shakira, who shares sons Milan, 11, and Sasha, 9, with the soccer star, cut up from Piqué in 2022 after 11 years collectively, following allegations of infidelity. Whereas they had been by no means legally married, the pair lived in Barcelona, the place Piqué performed for soccer membership, FC Barcelona, and raised their two children. Shakira has since moved stateside, and is reportedly residing in Miami.

“I did not have time. It was the husband-factor. Now I am husband-less,” she continued. “Yeah, the husband was dragging me down. Now I am free. Now I can really work.”

The “Hips Do not Lie” singer additionally dished on the album and its title, which in Spanish, interprets to, “Girls not cry.”

“It is males’s flip now. For too lengthy we have now been despatched to cry with a script in our fingers and with out an finish simply because we’re girls. Now we have to hide our ache in entrance of our children, in entrance of society,” she defined. “Now we have to heal in a sure approach. And I do not assume anybody is meant to inform us the way to heal. Nobody is meant to inform a She-wolf the way to lick her wounds.”

The method of crafting the album was at occasions a painful one for the musician, who mentioned she was coping with lots when she made it.

“I used to be uncooked. I used to be coping with lots of stuff. I felt at occasions with a knife between my tooth,” Shakira mentioned. “I used to be selecting up the items of myself from the ground. I used to be attempting to rebuild myself. Music was the glue.”

All in all, it was transformative for Shakira, who mentioned she took her “ache and anger and frustration” and turned it into “creativity, productiveness, energy and resilience” whereas engaged on the report.

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“The resilience of a diamond, you understand? In order that’s why I picked the metaphor of the valuable stones, due to the resilience that us girls have as we speak when we have now to face adversity,” she mentioned of the emerald, ruby, diamond and sapphire vinyl covers of the 16-track launch.

The brand new report consists of eight new songs, a brand new remix and 7 previously-released smash hit singles together with “Music Classes Vol. 53” with Bizarrap — the diss observe she launched following her breakup from Piqué — “TQG” with Karol G, “Monotonía” with Ozuna, “Te Felicito” with Rauw Alejandro and “Copa Vacía” with Manuel Turizo. It additionally consists of her new collab with Cardi B, “Puntería.”

Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran is out now.