Shakira Opens Up About Raising Her Sons, Whether She's Ready to Date Again & Her World Cup Legacy — Transcript

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1. 0:00I don't have social life. Like right
2. 0:01now, no social life.
3. 0:04I know that I've said "se pasa rico
4. 0:05soltera", you know, like single single
5. 0:08women have a a lot of fun and and yeah,
6. 0:10it's true, but but not so much for me
7. 0:13right now because I'm just a busy bee.
8. 0:19There's so much going on and I'm
9. 0:20preparing for my second tour, my second
10. 0:23run in the US. I'm preparing for my
11. 0:25performance at the World Cup, which I'm
12. 0:27going to try not to suck at.
13. 0:29And then
14. 0:30um I'm also preparing for my European
15. 0:34residency, 12 stadiums in in in Madrid.
16. 0:38Um so there's a lot there's a lot going
17. 0:40on. And also my kids' everyday life. So
18. 0:43yeah, right now I don't think I don't
19. 0:45think there's a lot of fun for me in the
20. 0:48in on on my on my path, but
21. 0:50um
22. 0:51yeah, I'm I'm just enjoying this this
23. 0:53moment in time and enjoy my career,
24. 0:55living it to its maximum. I've done this
25. 0:57professionally 30 years already and
26. 1:01it's feels to me like I'm just starting.
27. 1:04It feels Everything feels new always.
28. 1:06I'm as excited as the first day or more,
29. 1:09as passionate or more. I'm very
30. 1:11inspired. I'm making a lot of new music,
31. 1:14a lot of new collaborations, still on
32. 1:17tour. We just did a stadium run in the
33. 1:19US and now I'm coming back. I'm going to
34. 1:21be performing where most of the games
35. 1:23are happening, same cities. So that's
36. 1:26going to be interesting, you know, to
37. 1:28have all that footballistic energy, uh
38. 1:31sports fans energy kind of brought to my
39. 1:34concerts as well. It's going to be a lot
40. 1:36I think there's going to be a real
41. 1:38synergy there.
42. 1:47I wanted to write something for this
43. 1:48World Cup and I knew that it had to have
44. 1:51the secret ingredients,
45. 1:53the old ingredients that a World Cup
46. 1:55song needs, a great beat, energy, a
47. 1:58strong message. It just happened, you
48. 2:00know, it really flowed. It was very easy
49. 2:03to to come up with the with the melody,
50. 2:06with the
51. 2:07the lyrics, the concept. And then
52. 2:10obviously when I had Burna Boy recorded,
53. 2:13that was like the cherry on top. Really,
54. 2:15I always wanted to do something with
55. 2:16Burna and I think that his voice just
56. 2:17takes it to another level.
57. 2:22The song is much more than a World Cup
58. 2:24song. It's It's a message for every
59. 2:27child who's been told that their dream
60. 2:29is too big and to remind us that every
61. 2:32champion started out as a kid one day
62. 2:35who perhaps went through hardship and
63. 2:37struggles, but there was someone always
64. 2:40behind that child that believed in them
65. 2:43and that's why they didn't give up and
66. 2:44that's what we need to do as society. We
67. 2:47have to do the best we can to offer our
68. 2:50kids with opportunities so they can
69. 2:53achieve their goals in life and that the
70. 2:57opportunity, the one the most valuable
71. 2:59one, is education. And that's why this
72. 3:01song um is has been created not only for
73. 3:05the World Cup but for all of those kids
74. 3:07who don't have access to quality
75. 3:10education. And um this is a very
76. 3:12important World Cup because this one
77. 3:15uh it's going to serve as a platform for
78. 3:16all those kids who don't have a voice,
79. 3:18who don't have disability and at this
80. 3:21time when the world is so fractured and
81. 3:24divided and
82. 3:26um the algorithm
83. 3:27manipulates us all, I think it's it's a
84. 3:30good time to come together and talk
85. 3:31about the kids and put them at the
86. 3:33center of the debate and and uh
87. 3:37and uh make them be the real
88. 3:39protagonists here.
89. 3:47It's crazy why I have this connection
90. 3:50with football that seems unbreakable,
91. 3:52you know? My history with football
92. 3:55goes back to 2006 when I performed at
93. 3:58the first World Cup with Wyclef.
94. 4:00Performed Hips Don't Lie.
95. 4:02And then
96. 4:04again on 2010, which is when I met the
97. 4:08father of my kids who was playing during
98. 4:10that World Cup. That's why I call my
99. 4:11kids the Waka kids because they're
100. 4:14they I think they were born because of
101. 4:16that song. That song took me to the
102. 4:18World Cup and the World Cup had an
103. 4:20important impact in my life. And and
104. 4:23they were born, the best that has
105. 4:25happened to me. And then on 2014, I was
106. 4:28pregnant with my little one and all of
107. 4:30my fans, like they saw me perform and
108. 4:33they're like, she's pregnant. And I was
109. 4:35like a month pregnant, like 2 months
110. 4:37maximum. I But they know me so well. So
111. 4:39every World Cup there's something really
112. 4:41magical and I think this one is going to
113. 4:43be all about bringing people together
114. 4:46in this very sensitive time moment in
115. 4:49time.
116. 4:50Socially and and politically.
117. 4:57I think motherhood makes you strong. I
118. 4:59feel that the moment I became a mother,
119. 5:02I uh
120. 5:04I saw life through a different
121. 5:06perspective. They are true teachers, you
122. 5:09know? I learned so much from them every
123. 5:10day. When your world collapses and you
124. 5:13have to get up and pay the bills and and
125. 5:15still provide for your family and still
126. 5:18uh you know, prepare breakfast and and
127. 5:20take your kids to school and life needs
128. 5:23to go on. Needs to go on because you
129. 5:25have the responsibility to watch after
130. 5:28uh two human beings. Seeing my kids also
131. 5:32overcome those difficulties, that also
132. 5:34fills my heart and understanding that
133. 5:38only through hardship is when you
134. 5:39realize who your true friends are and
135. 5:42when you realize that you have you do
136. 5:44have friends
137. 5:46who are there for you when
138. 5:49to through through the bad times and the
139. 5:51good times, then you rediscover life.
140. 5:53You see life in it through a whole
141. 5:55different lens, you know? Life is
142. 5:56beautiful in spite of all
143. 5:59the
144. 6:00the pain that we all go through, you
145. 6:02know?
146. 6:03Humans is just This is what it it is
147. 6:05what it is, like
148. 6:07like they say, you know? This is life.
149. 6:10Uh Life is a but it's it's so
150. 6:12worth living it, you know?
151. 6:18I always thought that I was weaker than
152. 6:20what life proved me to be. Through those
153. 6:23challenging moments, I discovered
154. 6:25how resilient
155. 6:27we all are. And I really I truly admire
156. 6:30so many women that that just have to
157. 6:32push forward every day, push forward
158. 6:35through hardship or through whatever
159. 6:36life throws at them. I think like us
160. 6:38women, we just carry a world on our
161. 6:41shoulders. I mean, we rebuilt Europe
162. 6:43after the Second World War. We ruled the
163. 6:45world like Beyoncé says.
164. 6:47And uh yeah, I mean, behind every
165. 6:50experience in life, there's always
166. 6:52um a lesson that we learn. And uh we
167. 6:56have to be great grateful for for all
168. 6:58those lessons, even for the people that
169. 7:01that leave you with scars because
170. 7:04they just make us better.
171. 7:07And what doesn't kill you makes you
172. 7:09stronger.
173. 7:11I'm not thinking of future partners. I'm
174. 7:12just thinking of raising my kids, maybe
175. 7:15when they're older or something.
176. 7:17Uh right now, I'm just so busy with my
177. 7:20career and my life.
178. 7:30I would say to that girl back in her 20s
179. 7:32to enjoy more. I think like women, as
180. 7:35time goes by, we just acquire this new
181. 7:37confidence, you know?
182. 7:39Uh even even though we're we don't look
183. 7:41as perfect as in our 20s, but like
184. 7:44somehow we accept the way we are, you
185. 7:46know, and and
186. 7:47accept ourselves more. At least I I see
187. 7:50that with my friends. I see that in me.
188. 7:52So
189. 7:53all those 20-year-old girls, you know,
190. 7:55out there who are like trying really
191. 7:57hard, just you know, just enjoy because
192. 8:00it's beautiful to be to just be yourself
193. 8:02and accept who you are. When I started
194. 8:05with the crossover in the US back then,
195. 8:08the world was pretty closed up to the
196. 8:10idea of Latin artists singing in English
197. 8:12and that was a whole like revolution in
198. 8:14my life, you know. It was
199. 8:17uh the crossover to the Anglo market and
200. 8:20at that time I had so much to prove, you
201. 8:22know. I I wanted to show what I was
202. 8:25about, what
203. 8:26what Latinos were about, what
204. 8:29um
205. 8:30I had so much to say. Uh
206. 8:34and now I still have a lot to say, but I
207. 8:37feel more at ease, you know. So those
208. 8:40insecurities
209. 8:42are gone and now I just have
210. 8:44this immense love for what I do.
211. 8:52There were a lot of intellectual
212. 8:53challenges for me because at the time I
213. 8:56really didn't speak English as fluently
214. 8:57as I do now. So I had to write my own
215. 9:00songs in English and I used to do it
216. 9:02with the
217. 9:03rhyming dictionary and a thesaurus and
218. 9:06um a Bob Dylan book and and um
219. 9:10yeah, it was it was a a whole
220. 9:13uh different time for artists, for Latin
221. 9:16artists, for Spanish for music in
222. 9:18Spanish and
223. 9:19um there were no social there was no
224. 9:22social media. So I had to really, you
225. 9:24know, talk the talk and walk the walk
226. 9:26and and uh and fight. I was very
227. 9:29perseverant.
228. 9:31So I remember that time as a time of
229. 9:33challenges,
230. 9:34but also amazing achievements.
231. 9:38It was a real blessing
232. 9:40to to travel the world and
233. 9:43and be in touch with so many different
234. 9:44cultures and sort of learn from those
235. 9:46cultures, too,
236. 9:48which is what has shaped me as an artist
237. 9:50and as a as a person that I am today.
238. 9:52So, that was like kind of the door
239. 9:55opening to a new universe for me.
240. 10:04There were so many gatekeepers in the
241. 10:06industry who were like, "Oh, no, no, no,
242. 10:08no. We're not going to play that song,
243. 10:09Hips Don't Lie. That's going to be like
244. 10:11uh
245. 10:11that's
246. 10:13what it mean in Barranquilla se baila
247. 10:14así. Like that had I mean, if you think
248. 10:16about it, Hips Don't Lie has instruments
249. 10:19typical from the
250. 10:21Colombian folklore in there,
251. 10:24you know? And that was
252. 10:27such a big song for me in the US. It it
253. 10:29broke so many records, but at first
254. 10:31there were so many people people who
255. 10:33were closed up to the idea of that song,
256. 10:35even playing on American radio. And then
257. 10:37La Tortura also was one of the first
258. 10:39songs that actually played in Spanish on
259. 10:41American radio. That was a whole
260. 10:43different moment, a whole different era,
261. 10:45you know, where Latin artists weren't
262. 10:48taken as seriously as they are today.
263. 10:50So, I had a lot to
264. 10:52demonstrate, you know, a lot of
265. 10:54convincing to do. But it turned out
266. 10:56great.
267. 11:04That song was just so good and I I
268. 11:07remember us in the studio just like
269. 11:08dancing to it and jumping and like
270. 11:10celebrating because we knew the hate
271. 11:12that we had. And I knew that for the for
272. 11:14the people who understood the lyrics,
273. 11:16um
274. 11:17they were going to click also in a
275. 11:19different way, but but it was just
276. 11:22pure catharsis, you know? I really
277. 11:23needed to write at that point and write
278. 11:26about my feelings and what I was going
279. 11:28through and and not have any um censor
280. 11:32any banning in the lyrics of that song.
281. 11:33So, I just went for it and and I think
282. 11:36it was very therapeutic. I needed it.
283. 11:37Like after I after that song came out
284. 11:40and I wrote that song, I was like, "I
285. 11:42feel lighter."
286. 11:44You know? And I feel like a lot of
287. 11:46people, a lot of women who have been
288. 11:48going through this
289. 11:49something similar, people who I run into
290. 11:52in the streets or you know, they they
291. 11:54were telling me how important that was
292. 11:56for them, how you know, sometimes we
293. 11:58just need someone to speak for others or
294. 12:01be the voi- be the voice of others. The
295. 12:03human experience thrives on
296. 12:05identification. We need to identify with
297. 12:08each other. We need to feel that what
298. 12:10you're going through is the same that
299. 12:11I'm going through, you know, that it's
300. 12:12not so different, that we all go through
301. 12:15pain and struggle and hardship and um
302. 12:19and we also have
303. 12:20enjoy the beauty of this life with its
304. 12:22ups and downs, you know.
305. 12:29It's been the best tour of my entire
306. 12:31life. We've broken all the records. We
307. 12:33played 14 shows in Mexico City on a
308. 12:36stadium. We're going to play another 12
309. 12:38stadiums in in Spain. We went to Latin
310. 12:40America twice. We going back to America
311. 12:43twice.
312. 12:44Um there's still so much we're going to
313. 12:46do. We're going to be playing Egypt at
314. 12:48the pyramids. I have so many iconic
315. 12:50places. I just played in Copacabana in
316. 12:52front of 2 and 1/2 million people. 2 and
317. 12:541/2 million people on the beach. That is
318. 12:56insane. It was just one of the craziest
319. 12:58experiences of my career. And also, when
320. 13:01it's not summer, my kids come with me on
321. 13:03tour. We have a traveling uh house with
322. 13:06us, like family comes with us, their
323. 13:08friends come with us,
324. 13:10uh teachers um and so, I think like but
325. 13:14they go back to school. So, it's not
326. 13:17like they're home school, but we build
327. 13:18this kind of balance around them that
328. 13:21their lives and mine that I think is
329. 13:23working. I I know how I do it, but I'm
330. 13:26with them as much as I can. Uh even when
331. 13:29there's show days like I'm with them in
332. 13:31the morning well in the morning they
333. 13:33study then we, you know, have lunch,
334. 13:36spend the afternoon, then I
335. 13:38go get ready um and then have dinner
336. 13:42again,
337. 13:43put them to sleep uh when there's no
338. 13:45shows, you know, and so like I always
339. 13:48manage to be with them. That's why I
340. 13:49don't have any social life because I'm
341. 13:50like, "Okay,
342. 13:52my kids the stage, my kids the stage,
343. 13:54you know." So it's like that's how
344. 13:56that's how my life oscillates right now
345. 13:58between them and
346. 13:59and and my commitments. You know,
347. 14:01there's there's so much exciting stuff
348. 14:03going on around this tour. This tour has
349. 14:06just given me amazing moments on stage
350. 14:08of just communion with my with between
351. 14:11my fans and me. That dialogue that
352. 14:14doesn't stop between them and me and
353. 14:16it's showing me one more time and
354. 14:18proving to me one more time that they're
355. 14:19the best fans in the world. My fans have
356. 14:22been there for me through the thick and
357. 14:24thin, through the good and the bad
358. 14:25times. They've been family to me. So
359. 14:27every time I perform in front of them I
360. 14:30feel I'm surrounded by family. How they
361. 14:31defend me, fight for me, accompany me,
362. 14:34understand me, forgive my flaws
363. 14:37and and just surround me with their
364. 14:38love. I just feel
365. 14:40that it's all worth it.