By Issy Ronald, CNN
(CNN) — Colombian superstar Shakira has said her two sons “absolutely hated” the movie “Barbie” because it was “emasculating,” adding that she partially agreed.
Shakira shared her opinions on the 2023 blockbuster movie in an interview with beauty magazine Allure, saying that she prefers pop culture “when it attempts to empower women without robbing men of their possibility to be men, to also protect and provide.”
The Grammy-winning singer has two sons, Milan, born in 2013, and Sasha, born in 2015, with her former partner Spanish footballer Gerard Piqué.
“Barbie” became a cultural phenomenon last summer as it raked in more than $1.4 billion at the box office and sparked wide-ranging conversations about its specific brand of feminism. (“Barbie” was produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, which shares the same parent company as CNN.)
Greta Gerwig’s movie begins in the matriarchal society of Barbieland before Barbie and Ken, played by Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling respectively, venture to the real world where Ken discovers the patriarchy and attempts to implement it back in home.
With these overt feminist themes, the movie transcended cinema and became a political and cultural event, prompting much discussion around what it represented.
While the core of its female empowerment message was largely praised, some pointed out the dangers of portraying misogyny as deriving from incompetence rather than malice.
“I hope that in all of that passion, if they see it or engage with it, it can give them some of the relief that it gave other people,” she added.
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