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Singer Shakira just released a new song and accompanying music video with fellow Colombian Manuel Turizo.
The music video for ‘Copa Vacía’ is very visibly piggybacking off the interest in mermaids sparked by Disney’s release of a live action Little Mermaid, as Shakira is dressed up as a mermaid and wearing a pink wig.
None of that is out of the ordinary. Music videos are always artistic. The choice to have Shakira laying in a flooded pile of trash was an interesting decision but still not overly noteworthy.
Things go weird when a rat came at Shakira and she was forced to abandon her pink wig in the flooded pile of trash. And she later revealed the flood grew so bad she had to be removed from the rat-infested trash heap by crane because she couldn’t move inside of her mermaid suit. Here’s the moment with the rat:
Shakira’s caption on the rat video reads “Things that happen even to mermaids.” On Instagram, Shakira later added that her mermaid “sacrifices a lot for love, ending up in the trash amongst rats. Thankfully she finds herself in her natural habitat,” according to the Post.
The full music video can be seen here on YouTube:
As for the flooded trash heap that she had to be removed from via crane, Shakira told Hola! “The fish tank broke, the set began to flood, and they had to take me out of there,. I couldn’t go out because I had a mermaid tail, and I couldn’t climb out.” Later specifying they had to remove her using a crane.
For anyone wondering, Shakira’s net worth is an estimated $300 million. All that money and she’s still playing in rat-infested trash piles that are flooding… Sheesh.
There’s been no word on what Jimmy Butler, Shakira’s rumored boyfriend, thinks of the rat attack.