Shakira’s performance last night at the MTV Video Music Awards held at the Prudential Center in Newark (New Jersey) will go down in the history of this awards ceremony, which since 1984 has recognized the best video clips in the music industry. The Colombian swept away a review of some of the best songs of her career, which she combined with three of her latest songs, which have become global superhits. Shakira’s performance was so spectacular that Taylor Swift herself, the big winner of the night with nine awards, couldn’t help but get up to dance and applaud, absorbed in a performance full of passion, dance and energy.
~ Watch Shakira performing a medley of her hits at the #VMA as a celebration of her Video Vanguard Award!
~ Watch Shakira’s performance at the #VMAs in celebration of the Vanguard award he received today! pic.twitter.com/SuNIjoxfhQ— ShakiraMedia (@ShakiraMedia) September 13, 2023
Shakira, who has become the first Latin artist to receive the Vanguard award, which recognizes the contributions and impact of music videos on popular culture, and who also won the award for best Latin video for TQG Together with Karol G, he saved the best of the night for the performance.
The singer began with the English version of Wolf (She Wolf), a song that he released in 2009 and that was also selected for the Super Bowl show that he performed with Jennifer Lopez. The video of She Wolf It is one of Shakira’s most successful and has accumulated more than 336 million views on YouTube. This song was received by music critics of the time as a change in Colombian music towards more sensual and daring music.
Shakira continued with Congratulations, her first song of the ‘post-Piqué’ era, with which the artist was able to demonstrate that her dancing skills and her peculiar hip movement are still intact, after 33 years of career. Surrounded by an army of male and female dancers, the singer showed off with all kinds of dance steps and demonstrated that there is no artist who moves like her.
Taylor Swift’s reaction to Shakira’s #VMAs performance.
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Combining songs in English and Spanish throughout the performance, Shakira continued with the English version of I announce you, I warn you (Objection (tango), which belongs to your disk Laundry service (2001). It is the first song that the singer wrote in English. At the time when Shakira triumphed with this song, Emilio Estefan was leading his career. It was Emilio, along with Gloria Estefan, who convinced the singer that she needed to take the step of writing songs in English because her success could be global. They weren’t wrong.
Next, it was the turn of Whenever, Wherever, (2001), unot one of the most important songs of his career and with which he put the Spanish public in the pocket at the beginning of the 2000s. By the time he arrived right after hips don’t lie, Newark’s Prudential Center was already fully delivered up and dancing. “In Barranquilla she dances like this,” the singer shouted, to make her Latin roots clear to the American public. Among the attendees, her two sons Sasha and Milan Piqué enjoyed the performance of her mother, from whom they did not leave each other all night. They also posed with her on the red carpet and with the awards.
Sasha Piqué, Shakira and Milan Piqué. The singer was accompanied by her children throughout the gala. Photo: Getty
How could it be otherwise, he closed the show with BZRP Music Sessions #53, a song with which he ended up jumping to the public. A perfect closing for a performance of 10 minutes and 53 seconds of pure enjoyment and enjoyment. Also a good reminder that Shakira’s career is long, diverse and multicultural. She has earned her name as one of the most important Latin pop divas in history.
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