Shakira's twelfth studio album, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (2024), is named after a lyric from the song and includes both the original version and a remix by Tiësto.

[13][14] It was first rumoured that Shakira may be the next guest on Bzrp Music Sessions in August 2022, when she wished Bizarrap a happy birthday on social media.

[19] In 2021, Spanish authorities sought charges against Shakira, claiming that she should have paid income tax in Spain between 2012 and 2014 as she was in a relationship with Piqué and he lived in Barcelona, even though she maintains she did not.

[19][20][21] In 2022, prior to her Bzrp Music session, Shakira began releasing a series of singles with relationship or infidelity themes to their lyrics.

Her April 2022 single, "Te Felicito" ("I congratulate you"), recorded with Puerto Rican singer Rauw Alejandro, although written in 2021 and released before the separation was announced, has been said to be about the breakup.

[24] The song "TQG" ("te quedo grande”, or "too much for you"), recorded with fellow Colombian superstar Karol G, was released in February 2023 to massive success.

Both women had experienced relationship turmoil (Karol G with Puerto Rican artist Anuel AA) in the months leading-up to the single's release, with the lyrics reflecting moving-on, making their own money and realizing that they were too good for their men.

[25][26] After the song was confirmed the next day, people responded by speculating what Shakira may sing; Billboard noted that Bizarrap's music sessions typically featured rappers "who don't hold back taking aim at something or someone".

[23] In an interview on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on March 10, 2023, Shakira revealed that the beat and instrumentals for the track were inspired by English electronic band Depeche Mode and their "dark undertone.

It called the song a "hard relaunch" for her career, with Bizarrap's production suggesting she is "on the hunt for a new, more relevant sound to reclaim her place in pop music."

Feeling that the song does not have the same impact as her previous electronic hit, "She Wolf", NPR still felt it was successful, with Shakira's bravery to try a new sound paying off.

[32] BrooklynVegan agreed, emphasizing the potential for massive popularity with Shakira's "vocals [being] as iconic as ever" and Bizarrap "[giving] the song a modern and hard-hitting edge".

[39] Rolling Stone also asserted that the quality of the song would bring Shakira and her established superstardom back into public consciousness,[18] with Suzy Exposito in the Los Angeles Times saying that the track would likely launch Bizarrap to fame in the United States due to this.

Already having the most top ten Latin Pop Airplay hits among female artists, the song impacting this chart extending Shakira's record in this respect to 39.

The song received positive reactions from many Latin music artists on social media,[11] and within a day of its release Shakira's name was trending on Twitter at number one worldwide, with around 2.5 million tweets.

[75] Communications specialist Ximena N. Beltran Quan Kiu found that the song served as a "significant cultural statement", that Shakira refusing to feel shame for the end of her relationship was rejecting "societal expectations and pressures to behave in a certain way" as a woman.

[81] A CNN op-ed by author and communications specialist Ximena N. Beltran Quan Kiu instead felt that Shakira's lyrics were welcomely raw about all the things that were hurting her or keeping her up at night, including the cheating in which the new girlfriend was complicit, and her insecurity compared to younger women; Beltran Quan Kiu did note that among the popular responses were social media users "questioning whether Shakira broke an unwritten rule between women by dragging her ex's new flame".

The artists include Alejandro Sanz, Danna Paola, Andres Cepeda, Aitana, Tokischa, Fonseca, Carla Morrison, Manolo Cardona.

[86] On 14 January, Shakira put up a model of a witch on her balcony, facing Piqué mother's home, and played the song at full volume on repeat.

[93][94] The video was viewed over 50.3 million times within its first 24 hours of release,[92][36] breaking the record for biggest debut for a Latin song in YouTube history[95] "by some distance".

[100] On 2 February 2025, Shakira performed the song at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards, where Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran won Best Latin Pop Album.

Other related reference at the carnival were people disguised as the treasury workers referencing the line "la deuda en Hacienda".

"[112] Croatian The Bridge MP Nino Raspudić used the lyrics as referents to convey a political message on 17 January at the session of the Croatian Parliament that saw Šime Erlić elected to succeed Nataša Tramišak as Minister of Regional Development and EU Funds, with Raspudić saying: "we could say that the two most dangerous women in the world right now are Tramišak and Shakira, and by electing Erlić you gave us a Twingo instead of a Ferrari.

"[113] Senator and former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi made a reference to the song's lyrics to convey a political message during an electoral event on 5 February leading up to the upcoming regional elections: "As they say in contemporary philosophy, they had a Ferrari and they traded it for a Twingo".