The singer dropped the clip on the one-year anniversary of her 12th album, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran
Shakira dropped a music video for Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran single “Última” just before she kicked off the second of seven sold out shows at Mexico City’s GNP Seguros Stadium over the weekend. She’s currently on the Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran world tour, which launched in Rio de Janeiro on Feb. 11.
In the video, Shakira roams a desolate New York City as she sings the piano ballad, bundled in black winter wear on a windy pier and trekking through town on the subway. At points, she becomes teary-eyed. “Última” reflects on the end of her 11-year relationship with ex-husband Gerard Piqué. Last year, she told Zane Lowe that the song almost didn’t make the album, so she rushed to turn it in before her deadline. “I gotta spit it out or … I’ll choke,” she said she told her label. “I need to get this one out.”
“When I played this song to the head of marketing at Sony, he started to cry,” she went on to say. “I have never seen a man cry in my studio before. I’ve seen many women cry in my studio, but no man — but he’s a big softy. He started to cry with this song and I’m like, ‘OK, I get it. It’s not only about me. This song is not about me only, or him or …’ But I’m glad I was able to include it in the album, even if it’s the last song that I write to him.”
Shakira’s celebrated 12th album Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran had its one-year anniversary the day the “Última” music video dropped. The album earned her the fourth Grammy of her career, for Best Latin Pop Album. Her world tour will hit the rest of North America beginning May 13 at Charlotte, North Carolina’s Bank of America Stadium.
In her 2024 July/August Rolling Stone cover story, Shakira said songs like “Última” show her stylistic range. “One of the things I like the most about this album is that it actually evokes other stages of my musical journey, like the girl with the dark hair and the leather pants and bare feet. So there are songs like ‘Cómo, Dónde y Cuándo’ that are very close to my essence and who I’ve always been musically, but it clearly shows an evolution in the way I feel.”
