20 years of ‘La Tortura’, Shakira’s song and Alejandro Sanz that marked a before and after in Latin music
Shakira decided to close his tour of Latin America with A double concert in Medellínin which she was accompanied by Maluma and Carlos Vives, two of the already many musical couples she has chosen to sign Singles Throughout his career.
The Colombian singer has collaborated with numerous international artists in recent years, such as Manuel Turizo, Bad Bunny, Karol G or Nicky Jam, although there is a couple that stands out above all in Shakira’s career is The Spanish singer Alejandro Sanzfor what his song was for Latin music The torture.
On April 12, 2005, now 20 years ago, the two artists joined to launch this theme that marked A turning point in Latin music and collaborations between artists. One of his great milestones was to demonstrate that Latin music could reach the top of the world and did so when the two singers became the first to sing in Spanish in the MTV VMAS.
That was in 2005 and served to open the path of other Latin artists such as Rosalía or Bad Bunny. Today it seems impossible to think of a gala like this without music in Spanish but then it was normal.
The starting point of collaborations between great artists
When he arrived The tortureShakira and Alejandro Sanz were already two heavyweights in the international music industry and At that time it was not common for artists from that caliber to join On the same topic.
Today it sounds weird a panorama without collaborations but The torture “It was one of the first if it was not the first one that was done in Latin America in such a context” of two singers such as Spanish and the Colombian at that time.
This was said by Shakira in an interview in GQ in which he also remembered how they enjoyed recording the video clip and pointed out what it supposed The torture In the United States. “It was one of the first songs in Spanish that sounded on the Anglo -Saxon radio”he said on the subject that, among his. Many awards, the Latin Grammy got to recording of the year and song of the year. in 2006.
An approach to reggaeton
The issue caused the Spanish to sound worldwide and It was also a first approach to reggaetonwhich at that time was quite minority.
“I remember that we did it in Bahamas with Luis Fernando Ochoa. I had the idea of borrowing a little of the reggaeton that was emerging in Puerto Rico, which at that time did not sound much on the radio,” he said in that same interview. “Not at all sounded in Spain and It was like experiencing with a little Spanish melody, despised. And when I decided to call Alejandro and said he loved the song, there I knew that he was really going to work. ”
20 years ago “There were figures like Daddy Yankee but the reggaeton was not very globalized and there were no pop artists experimenting with reggaeton”Shakira said in another interview about how the song arose and how he decided to mix this theme with other styles. “At that time it was not very fashionable for the artists to come together, each one was on their way and there was a little rivalry between the genres. Now some mixtures are made, some rice with mango … The torture It was a rice with mango“
Brothers for 20 years
The recording of The torturefor which Shakira had recorded Maná before, it was the beginning of A great friendship between the Colombian and the Madrid getting to consider family.
“The song is one of the best memories that I have of that time, see how the paradigm of Latin music was breaking, and what more Latin and what more Hispanic than The torture. A song that left us many satisfactions to Alejandro and me and a friendship that more than a friendship is a brotherhood of years, ”he says when referring to the Spanish singer.
The lyrics and meaning of torture
The tortureproduced by Shakira next to Lester Méndez, and composed with Luis Fernando Ochoa He tells the story of a woman who has been emotionally “tortured” by her unfaithful boyfriendwho leaves her for another and finally returns asking for forgiveness. He insists but at the end of the song, Shakira’s character humbles him and tells her that she will not spill a single tear for him.
Oh Payita Mía, Guádar yourself poetry
Guard the joy pa ‘ti
I do not ask that every day be sunny
I do not ask that every Friday
Be partying
And neither do I ask you to come back with forgiveness
If you cry with dry eyes
And speaking of her
Oh, love, it hurts so much
It hurts so much
That you were without saying where
Oh, love
It was torture
Lose you
I know that I have not been a saint
But I can fix it, love
Not only from bread lives man
And not of excuses I live
Only errors are learned
And today I know that my heart is yours
You better keep all that
To another dog with that bone and we say goodbye
I can’t ask that winter forgive a rose
I can’t ask the elms to deliver pears
I can’t ask the eternal to a simple mortal
And walking to the pigs thousands of pearls
Oh, love, it hurts so much
It hurts so much
Do not believe more in my promises
Oh, love
It is torture
Lose you
I know that I have not been a saint
But I can fix it, love
Not only from bread lives man
And not of excuses I live
Only errors are learned
And today I know that my heart is yours
You better keep all that
To another dog with that bone and we say goodbye
Don’t get off, don’t get off
Hey bold look, don’t crack
Monday to Friday you have my love
Leave me on Saturday that is better
Hey my black do not punish me anymore
Because out there, without you I have no peace
I’m just a repentant man
I am like the bird that returns to its nest
I know that I have not been a saint
And I am not made of cardboard
Not only from bread lives man
And not of excuses I live
Only errors are learned
And today I know that my heart is yours
Ay, ay, ay ay
Oh, everything I have done for you
It was a torture to lose you
And it hurts me so much that it is so
Keep crying forgiveness, I
I don’t go
To cry today for you
