Plagiarism like you-u-u-u-u-u-u-it’s happened again. After being accused of plagiarizing her session with Bizarrap by using the same cadence as a Venezuelan singer named Briella (the comparisons, truth be told, leave no room for doubt), now Shakira has been pilloried again for copying in the exam. And the fact is that ‘Acróstico‘ looks suspiciously similar to a song by Paula Mattheus. What an eye, Shak.
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This case may not be as flagrant as Bizarrap’s, but it is true that it leaves the door wide open to possible coincidence. The fact is that ‘Te lo dije de verdad’, which came out a year ago, shares chords and melody with the song that Shakira plays on the piano with her children (that’s another controversy for another time). The lyrics are radically different, but anyone would say that the singer likes to compose “by ear”.
Mattheus, of course, has come to the fore explaining that let’s see. That surely it’s a coincidence and nothing has happened here, right? These are things that happen in music, everything is invented and, in the end, it will serve to promote the career of a singer much less known than the Colombian but who has great collaborations with David Otero, Despistaos or Rozalen. Not with children, for whatever reason. Shakira 1-Paula Mattheus 0.
These are not the first times Shakira has faced accusation for plagiarizing a song. In 2019 she went to trial along with Carlos Vives for the composition of ‘La bicicleta‘, of all songs in the world. In this case it was Liván Castellano Valdés who denounced them for the song ‘Yo te quiero tanto’, from 1997. The singer herself said that there was nothing similar and the judge gave her the reason, but has not ruled on the comparisons with Mattheus and Briella: although never of the two has any interest in getting into a trial, you never know if you can sal-picar.
