Whereas many celebrities have voiced their love for Greta Gerwig’s smash hit Barbie, Shakira is sharing her criticisms.
In an Attract profile and canopy story, the Colombian pop star, whose new album Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (Girls No Longer Cry) tackles discovering empowerment after being introduced down by heartbreak, was requested her ideas on the Oscar-winning movie.
Shakira answered bluntly, saying, “My sons completely hated it. They felt that it was emasculating. And I agree, to a sure extent.”
“I’m elevating two boys. I would like ’em to really feel highly effective too [while] respecting girls. I like popular culture when it makes an attempt to empower girls with out robbing males of their risk to be males, to additionally defend and supply,” she defined.
Shakira clarified her remark, including, “I imagine in giving girls all of the instruments and the belief that we are able to do all of it with out dropping our essence, with out dropping our femininity. I feel that males have a function in society and girls have one other function as nicely. We complement one another, and that complement shouldn’t be misplaced.”
Interviewer Patricia Alfonso Tortolani, who gave the impression to be shocked by the artist’s ideas, requested, “Simply because a lady can do all of it doesn’t imply she ought to?”
The singer responded, “Why not share the load with individuals who deserve to hold it, who’ve an obligation to hold it as nicely?”
Alfonso Tortolani famous that the famous person’s opinion on Barbie is “a part of the Shakira Paradox. Girls deserve all the facility, all of the company, and all of the sexiness they want to embody or categorical. And but it doesn’t betray her model of feminism to anticipate males to man up.”
Whereas Shakira was amongst those that didn’t like Barbie, the movie discovered loads of success. It made historical past as the primary film to gross over 1 billion directed solely by a lady. It additionally acquired eight Oscar nominations, profitable finest unique music.