Shakira blends in with the locals while riding the subway in New York City – after sparking romance rumours with music video co-star Lucien Laviscount

She’s known for her jaw-dropping looks both on and off-stage.

But Shakira looked like any other commuter on Friday as she rode the subway in New York City.

Looking the epitome of chic, the blonde beauty, 47, was dressed head to toe in black as she took a humbling trip across Queens.

She wore a full-length black trench coat, which she paired with a black jumper, trousers, and chunky leather boots.

Keeping her look casual for her outing, she let her luminous blonde curls flow freely in the wind as she stepped out with a natural makeup look.

Shakira proved the underground transport was too stuffy midday as the Columbian-bred bombshell left her carriage with her winter coat in hand.

Sitting on the black beat-up foldup chairs, locals seemed unphased by the star’s presence.

Her candid outing to the city comes after the star blamed her ex-boyfriend Gerard Piqué ‘for dragging her down’ while discussing why it took so long to make her new album on Monday’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on NBC.

The singer shared her thoughts when Jimmy, 49, asked her why it had been more than seven years since she put out a record.

‘I was putting out songs here and there but it was really hard for me to put together a body of work,’ Shakira said. ‘It was the husband. Now I’m husband-less. Yeah, the husband was dragging me down. Now I’m free. Now I can actually work.’

Shakira appeared on the show to promote her new album Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran.

‘Women no longer cry,’ Shakira said. ‘It’s men’s turn now.’

‘For too long we have been sent to cry with a script in our hands and without an end just because we are women,’ Shakira said.

‘We have to conceal our pain in front of our kids, in front of society. We have to heal in a certain way. And I don’t think anyone is supposed to tell us how to heal. No one is supposed to tell a She-wolf how to lick her wounds.’

Shakira said now women decide for themselves how to cope with the hardships of life.

Shakira explained her feelings that inspired her to create the 16-tracks of the album.

‘I was raw,’ Shakira said. ‘I was dealing with a lot of stuff. I felt at times with a knife between my teeth. I was picking up the pieces of myself from the floor. I was trying to rebuild myself. Music was the glue.’

Shakira said she felt that she was ‘transforming pain and anger and frustration into creativity and productivity and resilience.’ She said that was why she picked the metaphor of the precious stones.

The Spanish soccer player and Shakira announced their split after 11 years together in June 2022, after she learnt he had allegedly been unfaithful.

Gerard, 37, is now dating model girlfriend Clara Chia Marti, 25, after she moved into the home he used to share with the singer last August.

But Shakira is also said to have recently found a new flame as she is rumoured to be dating Lucien Laviscount.

The 31-year-old who plays heart throb Alfie in Netflix’s Emily In Paris was spotted going for dinner on Tuesday following his appearance in the music video for Shakira’s song Punteria.

When Lucien first appeared along the star in the Punteria video, fans were left in shock.

In the music video, which also stars Cardi B, Lucien showed off his ripped physique as he went shirtless to play a centaur who was hit by Shakira’s arrow.

Lucien’s character was then dragged into a hall occupied by the singers and their followers and Shakira cleaned off his wound while running her hands over his body.

They then posed together for the cover of OK! Magazine, but split after claiming it ‘was all just a bit of fun’. She said: ‘Lucien was very charming and obviously easy on the eye, and it was all just a bit of fun.’