Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Why Shakira Infamously Roasted Her Ex-Husband Gerard Pique in a Song More for Her Fans Than Herself

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Shakira created quite a
sensation when she dropped the bomb. There was bizarre rap
music sessions Vowing fifty three and twenty twenty three long
side producer Bizer rap with scathing lyrics that didn't shy
away from her divorce from soccer star Gerard Peakway or
his infidelities, and in a new chat with Billboard, Shakira
shared that she didn't put that track out there to
roast t XS publicly as much as she did for

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herself and the people who can relate to the painful experience, saying,
one of the things about writing music and releasing songs
is that it heals you. It has a therapeutic effect
on your life, but it also helps other people. Music
can sometimes be the soundtrack of people's lives, and I
experienced it firsthand. After that song came out, people would
approach me and share their story, and I would feel
I wasn't alone. There were people like me going through

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similar situations who felt represented in some sort of way
and not Shakira. There tickets for her current world tour
or on sale now that's Direct from Hollywood,