After the success of the Session 53created together with the Argentine producer Bizarrap, Shakira He returned to release a song with several allusions to his ex-partner, the Spanish soccer player Gerard Piqué. On this occasion, she did it together with the singer, also Colombian, Carol G: is about “TQG”, The acronym for “I left you big”. But beyond the references that both singers make to their ex-partners in the song, the video clip is full of cinematographic references.
The most important is the nod that the video clip makes to the film “The Truman Show”(1998) directed by Peter Weir and starring the actor Jim Carrey. The film told the story of Truman, a man who one day realizes that everything he thought was true in his life was actually a montage, since since he was born he was part of a reality show that had him as protagonist.
Shakira and Karol G. They used this reference to imply that for a long time they lived a world of lies with their ex-partners. In fact, at one point they walk through scenery that is virtually identical to a scene in the movie.
But there are also other references, such as the moment where Shakira and Karol G. they dance in a space where snow falls. The environment refers to “Kill Bill: Volume 1” (2003) directed by Quentin Tarantino. It is about the final battle between the character of Uma Thurman and the one of Lucy Liuin a snowy garden.
The way in which the video clip shows the streets of a city very similar to Tokyo, full of people walking, neon lights and tall buildings with a gray sky in the background refers to “Lost in Translation” (2003) from Sofia Coppola, and the dark atmosphere of “Blade Runner” (1982) from RidleyScott.
Finally, the image of Karol G watching the city from above of a large building reminiscent of “Heaven Over Berlin” (1987) from Wim Wenderswhere an angel watches the city from above.
The video clip already has almost 880,000 reproductions in Youtubeand in the case of Shakira, it joins the already long list of songs full of spite, dedicated to her ex-partner, along with Session 53, “Congratulations” and “Monotony”.
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