After a postponement of the tour, an appearance canceled at the festival and a show canceled at the last minute, Shakira finally arrived at the Sofi de Inglewood stadium this week on a world tour behind “Women no longer cry” of 2024. The album, which examines Shakira's rupture with the Spanish soccer player Gerard Piqué, was the last one of a series of a series of a series of decades of decades of decades for the 48 -year -old pop star; Here he touched two crowds of splatter capacity of people with diffuse wolf ears inspired by his old song “She Wolf”. My colleague Sergio Burstein covered the concert on Monday night in Spanish, but I ventured to Sofi for Shakira's second presentation on Tuesday. Here are 10 outstanding aspects of the concert:
1. It has been a great summer for the departure video. Like Morgan Wallen and Drake before her, Shakira made the show a production in itself, with a camera following it behind the scene, in favor of the boxers, while it winding to the audience in futuristic tones and a silver monkey to take its place on stage.
2. Flanked by members of a mixed dance team, Shakira moved through a lot of choreography on Tuesday night, none more memorable than the very convincing the robot he made during a mixture of “those of intuition” and “I am here.”
3. Ok, an equally memorable movement: use the arms, legs and back of several male dancers like a living stationary bicycle in “La Bicycle”.
Shakira moves through the crowd.
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4. As the Shakira Oral Flexation LP singles, Vol. 2 “,” Don't Molting “was easily eclipsed 20 years ago by the giant of the list that was” hips don't ment “. However, in Sofi, I preferred the first, who sang while seizing a bright pink electric guitar that sounded like Courtney loved Josie and the Pussycats.
5. Shakira performed “Men in This Town” of 2009 so it seems to be the first time on Monday: the result of a fans campaign on social networks that urged her to take out the song about the unfortunate state of the appointments in Los Angeles (“I went to look / from the Sky bar to the norm / nothing took,” says a brutal book). Checks in the melody as an angels not destined for it.
6. For a version with “blackmail” sauce, the cameras followed Shakira back to her dressing room, where she sang, lived or pregnant, it was difficult to know, through a change of costumes and a little Zhuzhing hair before the stage is again. It is an intelligent piece, which could be the reason why Lady Gaga has a similar one in the Mayhem Ball Tour that brought the Kia forum last week.
7. Shakira's strongest voice probably arrived in “Last”, a Stark piano ballad that has said it will be the last song he writes about Piqué. (The song is “A cyst,” he told the New York Times, which required the extraction of his body). Here he sang it while he was standing with a brilliant siren dress that seemed impossible to move, some kind of metaphor for the golden cage of a celebrity romance.
8. Fuzzy, Jangly, slightly derogatory: “Barefoot, white dreams” is really one of the great rock songs of the 90s.
9. Before closing the show with “BZRP Music Sessions, vol. 53”, his collaboration of 2023 winner of Grammy Latin It's not a blow, it's not a blow, it's not a blow, it's not a joke: a joker. This is lycontropy, ”he sings, that somehow becomes a hymn of self -employment. Lives indie deafness.
10. Speaking of setbacks, the black -eyed peas opened Tuesday's concert with an ordered race through some of their rave traffic jams of the Stadium in the late 00, including “I Gotta Feeling”, which Will.i.am introduced with a small speech on the love of the band by the Latin community of Los Angeles. He said the guy known for his music carelessly cheerful: “F— ICE.”
