A room full of boxes, a plane and a basketball of Milan and Sasha: the meaning of the images in Shakira’s video “Acrostic”, where she reflects her love for her children

In less than 24 hours, the official video for “Acrostico,” Shakira’s latest song, has racked up 10 million views on YouTube. It is a song dedicated especially to her children, Milan and Sasha, who followed her all the time, after the separation of the Colombian artist from former soccer player Gerardo Piqué.

“Nothing makes me more fulfilled than being their mother”: Shakira’s children sing and play in acrostic video with talent inherited from their mother

With “Acrostich”, he seems to have closed the chapter of “tirade” towards his ex-partner, who boasts of a new relationship with Clara Chia, while Shakira distanced herself by recently moving to Miami, in the United States.

The meaning of Shakira’s song images

The biggest surprise for fans of the artist was the presence of Milan and Sasha, who appear with their mother who plays the piano and sometimes interprets a line from the song.

“You taught me that love is not a lie”: Shakira launched an acrostic dedicated to Milan and Sasha

“Loving you serves as anesthesia for the pain, I’m better, I’m here for everything you need, you came to complete who I am,” says part of the stanza in Milan’s voice.

Undoubtedly, it is a subject full of feelings and whose images mark the nostalgia of the artist who has to pack her bags and start a new life far from Barcelona, ​​where she had her home for 12 years.

In most of the video, you can see the boxes that would represent the items that the artist kept for the move, and various toys of her children such as legos, airplanes, basketballs, skateboards, stuffed animals and clothes stored in the suitcase.

Everything seems to allude to the moment when they were about to leave Barcelona and start a new life.

Almost at the end of the video, an empty room can be seen while the shutter on the window is down, giving it light until it finally gets dark.

The touching images unfold as Shakira and her children are heard interpreting the song composed with just voice and piano.

Although the issue was released on May 11 with the first video showing images of the little bird taking care of her two chicks in the nest, now it is Shakira’s children who take center stage in the official image, reminds Spain’s El País.

“This year, Milan wrote songs that made me cry with emotion, and Sasha spent hours at the piano, discovering her voice,” said the singer on her Instagram profile to greet the 2:58-minute love song with one that winks at her new life and tries to heal the wounds of his failed relationship.

The clip also generously features some unreleased pictures of Shakira with her children and some personalized children’s books, until finally Sasha is also encouraged to sing to finish the composition with a bang, reports El Comercio de Perú in its description of the “Acrostic” video. (AND)