Shakira admits that her sons hated ‘Barbie’ as a result of “they felt that it was emasculating”

Shakira has shared her ideas on Barbie, revealing that her two sons “hated it” as a result of “they felt that it was emasculating”.

The artist was requested in an interview with Attract if she had seen the Greta Gerwig-directed movie, which got here out final summer time, to which she mentioned that she had.

“My sons completely hated it. They felt that it was emasculating,” she mentioned. “And I agree, to a sure extent. I’m elevating two boys. I need ’em to really feel highly effective too [while] respecting ladies.

“I like popular culture when it makes an attempt to empower ladies with out robbing males of their risk to be males, to additionally defend and supply. I consider in giving ladies all of the instruments and the belief that we will do all of it with out dropping our essence, with out dropping our femininity. I believe that males have a goal in society and girls have one other goal as properly. We complement one another, and that complement shouldn’t be misplaced.”

Shakira launched her new album, ‘Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran’, final month. In a four-star evaluate, NME wrote: “With a profession that spans 4 a long time, she continues to push the envelope for Latin pop music and make the style a world occasion. All her earlier information had at the least one music in English, however this time, she opts to sing totally in Spanish. With this weak but versatile assortment, Shakira reveals there aren’t any limits to the artwork of her catharsis via music.”

The Colombian singer celebrated the discharge of her twelfth album by taking part in a free pop-up present in entrance of an enormous crowd of round 40,000 followers in New York’s Instances Sq. final week.

In December, an unlimited statue of the singer was unveiled in her hometown of Barranquilla, Colombia. It measures 6.5 metres tall and depicts the popstar swivelling her hips within the transfer from the video for ‘Hips Don’t Lie’.

Shakira was additionally topped 2023’s most searched musician in response to Google’s 2023 12 months In Search, after releasing her collaboration with producer Bizarrap, ‘BZRP Music Periods #53’, in January.