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Let anyone who hasn't suffered for love cast the first stone. Throughout life, everyone—or almost everyone—has shed a tear for someone. Infidelity, betrayal, contempt, unhappy endings, and deep pain, the kind that penetrates the bones and can drive us to commit unthinkable acts. "No one is safe from cuckoldry and death," a popular saying goes. The entertainment industry knows this, and throughout history, it has given us tear-jerking songs with background music or just the right phrases that speak to us, so we can sing them to someone without having to use any more words.
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The new theme that Shakira -in partnership with the producer Bizarrap– dedicated to Gerard Pique and his girlfriend, Clara Chía Martí, reflects that, but it's not the first. There's a history of songs about heartbreak. Singer-songwriters, tango singers, pop, rock, Latin, and cumbia artists—no musical style is left out when it comes to heartbreak. Adele to Rosalía, Burnet, José Luis Perales, Julio Sosa and Prince, a list of other songs that sing to the pain, because letting off steam is also a right.
And what is he like?
José Luis Perales immortalized this hymn in 1982. In the song, a man painfully accepts that his wife has stopped loving him and anguishedly wonders what the person who made him fall in love is like, what qualities he has to have taken the woman from his life.
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“And what is he like? Where did he fall in love with you? / Where is he from? / What does he do with his free time? Ask him, why has he stolen a piece of my life? / He's a thief, who has stolen everything from me,” she questions in the chorus, from the depths of pain.
Although many singers performed it and it seems to have been tailor-made for Perales, some time later the singer confessed that he composed it thinking of offering it to Julio Iglesias and imagining the feelings the singer might go through after his first wife, Isabel Preysler, she left him to marry someone else, but when she heard it the record company wanted him to be the one to perform it.
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Rancor
If any genre sang of heartbreak, abandonment, and spite, it was tango. Julio Sosa, one of its best representatives, did it with an accuracy and desolation that penetrates the bones.
“Resentment, my old resentment / Let me forget / The cowardly betrayal / Don't you see that I can't take it anymore / That I've already dried up / From crying so much / Let me live again / And forget the pain / That slapped me yesterday / Resentment, I want to go back / To be what I was / I want to live,” sings the Man of Tango.
“That’s why, old resentment / Let me live / For what I suffered,” he pleads at the end in a devastating version.
Two-legged rat
While Shakira was sending hints to Piqué on the night of her song's release, social media was turning another protagonist who has nothing to do with this story into a trending topic. It's about Paquita from the Neighborhood, the 75-year-old Mexican singer-songwriter, queen of rancheras, who in the past did not skimp on insults to get revenge on her ex by performing one of the most listened to - and repeated in karaoke - heartbreak songs throughout history without appealing to any wordplay or hidden message.
“Filthy rat / Crawling animal / Scum of life / Badly made eyesore / Subhuman / Specter of hell / Damned vermin, how much harm have you done to me / Vermin / Poisonous snake / Outcast of life, I hate you and despise you / Two-legged rat, I'm talking to you,” he goes straight to the point.
But the truth is, she wasn't the author. Paquita la del Barrio was married for 25 years until she found out her husband had been cheating on her with his mistress for the past 15 years. The lyrics were written by someone else. Manuel Eduardo Toscano, who after attending the singer's live shows discovered how people went crazy when she insulted men.
Forget me and come back
The brothers Burnet They also provided material for tears with their songs. As if they were a couple, they have perfectly captured the breakdown of a relationship throughout their repertoire, forging a career based on love, arguments, and heartbreak.
“I’ve been living without him for two years and one day / I haven’t seen him for two years and one day / And although I haven’t been happy, I’ve learned to live without his love / But as I’ve been forgetting, suddenly one night he came back,” they start with high expectations and, like a soap opera, they unravel this return with an apology that keeps us in suspense until the end.
“Go away / Forget that I exist / That you knew me / And don't be surprised / Forget everything that you / Have experience for that”, the character of Lucia GalanGame over for the repentant husband played by Joaquin.
The Fool
In recent years, Jimena Barón She took off her actress suit and became a singer, making her private life a kind of reality show, and with a catchy rhythm she sang to her ex Daniel Osvaldo That she was fed up with his lies and would no longer be the fool who would wait for him, cooking and raising their child; that she would take control of her life and do something better with it. And she became an icon: many women wanted to stop being "fools" and become "cobras," her next hit, which was based on the resurrection of that submissive and accommodating woman.
“Wanting not to believe my intuition / Searching for some love in your gaze / How cruel is the emptiness in your pupils / Cardboard / You can hear it if your heart beats / Your soul protected with Teflon / Your body caresses me with thorns / And I go back to being the fool who adapts to your routine / The one who waits for you while she cooks for you / Who is happy if she sees you / And if not, too,” she sings and becomes a flag.
Someone Like You
Whether you are a bilingual expert in English or barely know how to construct a sentence in that language, this topic of Adele It pierces any heart just by listening to its melody that warns that a song to cry is coming.
“I heard you settled down / That you found a girl and now you’re married / I heard your dreams came true / Guess she gave you things I didn’t,” he sings without anesthesia from the beginning.
“I hate showing up out of nowhere, uninvited / But I couldn’t stay away, I couldn’t face it / I hoped you’d see my face, and it would remind you / That for me, it’s not over / Forget it, I’ll find someone like you / I wish nothing but the best for you / Don’t forget me, I beg you / I remember you said: ‘Sometimes love lasts, but other times it hurts’”, she promises, and plunges the knife deep into the air with that exquisite and powerful voice.
Disappoint
High above, with pop style, some flamenco airs, dance and a challenge on TikTok, Rosalía warns that it's better not to call her. The Spanish singer turned a song into a hit, which already has a title that gives away what it's about.
“And I'm feeling down, oah, crazy / May God save me from ever coming back to you / I'm moving it from side to side and then to the other / Today I'm leaving the disco with my baby,” she repeats in the chorus of her song that brought her even more fame and with which she fills stadiums all over the world.
“There are many ways "From being 'Despechá', in this song it is from madness and freedom, without reservations or regrets," said the Catalan artist in an interview.
I'm not here for you
Another Spanish woman on the list, but with a completely different style. Rosana She sings about love with a voice so tender it moves you. But among her greatest hits, we also find pieces immersed in pain and moments of darkness, but even in those moments, with a glimmer of hope.
“Have a nice day / My best wishes / That in life / You reap what you sow of good / Have a nice day / May it not go badly for you / And may time leave you / Where you need to be,” he warns and doubles the bet: “I'm leaving you everything that you gave me / I'm taking with me everything that I gave that you didn't want / I'm leaving happy, I have nothing more to give you / I'm taking with me everything that I gave that you didn't take care of.”
Let go, without holding a grudge, have a nice day, but don't come back here. Beautiful and moving.
Lying Heart
There is no real party if at some point during the night this song doesn't play. Karina The Little Princess. This song of heartbreak and spite that he released when he separated from The Polish It put her and the song on everyone's lips and turned her into a faithful exponent of the genre, not only of the tropical movement but also of those women who sing about deception.
“Liar, lying heart / You'll regret it when I'm with someone else / And this fool / Is tired of your lies / Being a toy in your life / Another one of your collection / Don't call me / Why do you send me flowers? / Do you want me to forgive you? / If you don't have a heart,” he monologues at the beginning and announces the end: “It's over, your lie is over / It's over and I say enough, enough, enough,” the end of the suffering.
Bachata
It became one of the summer hits, but it's anything but happy. To the rhythm of bachata and reggaeton, Manuel Turizo He brings back emotional moments from his relationship and resigns himself to the fact that there's nothing left to do; he's lost the woman he loved so much but didn't know how to appreciate. And in the process, he mourns her and brings her back to the present in scraps of cheerful postcards.
“I blocked you on Insta / But I see your stories on another account / I deleted your number / I don't know why if I know it by heart / You hurt me / And that's how I miss you / And although I know that one day I'm going to forget you / I still haven't / It's complicated / I like to remember everything we did,” he sings while in the official video clip he drives a van touring the places they used to visit together.
“I'm driving through the streets where you kissed me / Listening to the songs you once dedicated to me / I'd tell you to come back, but you can't ask for that / I'd rather ask God to take care of me,” she repeats in the chorus. A dignified retreat.
Hawaii
Same genre as the previous one but in a different tone, Maluma He warns his ex that there is probably nothing real after him and that everything he can experience is nothing more and nothing less... than for the photo on social media.
“You may not need anything, apparently nothing / Hawaii on vacation, my congratulations / What you post on Instagram is very nice / So I can see how well you're doing, but you're hurting yourself / Because love can't be bought,” he says, spiteful, and adds, in a manner of oath and curse: “Lie to all your followers / Tell them that times are better now / I don't believe that when I call you you'll ignore me / If after me there will be no more love.”
This song raised a storm because he dedicated it to his ex-girlfriend. Natalia Barulich, who shortly after separating from him confessed her relationship with Neymar, an event that devastated the singer because he considered him a friend. And while the newlywed couple enjoyed an ideal life, full of luxuries and good times, Maluma felt she hadn't forgotten him yet.
Eye hate U
On this topic and as a kind of trial, Prince It recreates the end of a troubled relationship. “After everything we'd been through together / You gave your body to someone else in the name of fun / I hope you had a baby / And if not... cry,” she says.
“You’re charged with two counts of breaking your heart / In the first degree / I don’t care about anyone else / My main concern is you and me / Your Honor, may I call my only witness to the stand? / A girl who knows damn well she didn’t have no goddamn business / I know what you did, how you did it, and… who you did it with?” he says, judging her for breaking his heart.
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