Shakira halts the filming of a music video to rescue a beaten journalist
Shakira, who was filming the music video for her upcoming single “Monotonía” featuring Puerto Rican reggaeton singer Ozuna, had to pause production due to a major disruption.
The Colombian production crew came to Catalua to film the sequences, which attracted a large crowd of enthusiastic fans.
Both singers put in over 15 hours of labour on Saturday, which was a long and tiring day. The interpreter of “Te Felicito” was not expecting to be interrupted by urgent pleas for help addressed to her, but that is exactly what happened.
The afternoon sequences were filmed in a grocery store, and the morning scenes were filmed in the city centre.
Jordi Martin, a Spanish paparazzi, was there to record the event in its entirety. He happened to be in the middle of filming when he stumbled into the bizarre happening and captured it on camera.
A journalist from Colombia was involved in a tragic occurrence and likely would have been arrested by city police guarding the area.
“I am a journalist! Help! They’re hitting me! Shakira!” The singer’s request garnered attention.
Jordi Martin claims the reporter’s defiance led to his arrest, but offers no explanation.
An international scandal has been uncovered. He was arrogant and smug in his manner. He fought back when they demanded to see his identification. This fight was terrible. Shakira was there to see everything unfold: “I looked at her face and it was a poem, it was a face of circumstance, ” Martin stated, noting that Shakira was aware of the difficulty of the situation.
So, Shakira called for a pause in production in the hopes that everyone would cool down and she could resume normal operations on site.
“we all witnessed the arrest with astonished faces, hallucinating with what we were seeing.” the paparazzi said.
She further said that the journalist jailed in Colombia “is known by Shakira’s family.” Consequently, the singer from Barranquilla was deeply troubled by the agents’ actions and concerned that they would do the same to someone else they knew. Or maybe they are feeling uneasy and embarrassed about it.
A lot of people were impressed that Shakira dropped everything and helped the person who requested for her help, rather than just being apathetic.