Hi everybody i just wanted to tell you that i went to shaki's concerts and they were AMAZINGGGG!!!!! :wub: :yahoo: On the 7th Alejandro Sanz went there as her guest and we got to hear the original version of LA TORTURA! :wub: The crowd went crazy and everybody felt happy!!!

:dance: she sang a lot of hits such us ANTOLOGIA, INEVITABLE, SI TE VAS, OJOS ASI.. and more!!!

during HIPS DON'T LIE she brought the bollywood dancers and did the chorogrphy of the VMA'S :wub:

 

Pretty much she showed her ROCK and raw side!!! which is good since i loved her rockish songs more!!! but alltogether were the BOMB!!!!!!! :yahoo:

 

The setlist was this:

 

1Estoy Aquí

2Te Dejo Madrid

3Don’t Bother

4Antología

5Hey You

6Si te vas

7Inevitable

8No

9Underneath YOur Clothes

10Obtener Un Sí

11La Tortura (WITH ALEJANDRO SANZ)

12Whenever Wherever

13La Pared (Piano)

14Pies Descalzos

15Ciega Sordomuda

16Ojos Así

17Hips Don't Lie (WITH WYCLEF)

 

 

On the 8th was the same but without ALEJANDRO SANZ but was breath taking for me and my sister becuse we were in VIP seats, we were in front of the stage!!!! :wub: when shaki started singing ESTOY AQUI she came to our side and looked at us like if she knew us !!!!! :yahoo: she waved her hand and kept singing!!!!

 

i think she recognized us cus' back in 2005 when FIJACION ORAL 1 came out we met her(me and my sister) at virgin records and we gave her a bubble head of super girl cus' as you know supergirl has the colors of the colombian flag!!! yellow,blue and red!!!! ok the thing is that we told her that she was like super girl for us and she gave us her autograph,hugs, kisses and pictures with her!!!! :wub:

and not to mention that 8 days before the concert i told her at the vma's I LOVE YOUUUUU SHAKIRA! when she was getting ready to perform and looked at me with a smile !!! :wub:

 

and on the 8th here in NY she saw us and pointed at us!!!!!! :wub: :wub: :wub:

 

overall the concerts were terrific!!!!!!!!! :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:

 

 

uhhhhhhh.... i forgot to tell you that Kelly Clarkson went on the 7th and was very exited to see shaki B)!!!!

 

she has said many times that she loves shaki and indeed this proves it!!!!!!! :P

Edited September 11, 200618 yr by DAVELOVESHAKI

This is a review of the concert from a news paper! (news day NY)

 

Shakira's powerful, and that's no lie

 

 

"We're going to make a little arrangement," said Colombian pop singer Shakira early in her sold-out Thursday evening show at Madison Square Garden. "I'm going to be up here singing and dancing and playing and doing all the required stuff. What I want you to do is have fun." It seemed like a bargain, but Shakira comported herself with such vigor and joy and enthusiasm over the course of the hour-and-forty-five-minute show that it was often hard to tell just who had gotten the better part of the deal.

 

 

This is a testament to Shakira's charisma and her long history as a performer. Though she's been making records since the early '90s, it was her 2001 English-language debut, "Laundry Service," that catapulted her into super-stardom. A giddy, raucous mash-up of rock, pop, salsa and reggaeton, the album had an impish curiosity and a willingness to push against genre boundaries until they start to give. If her latest album, "Oral Fixation Vol. 2," isn't quite as fun, it's only because it attempts less, skewing more toward Western rock and pop and offering less in the way of experimentation. So much the better then that Shakira tread lightly over the new material in favor of a set that showcased both the breadth of her catalog and her charisma and agility as a frontwoman. As befitting an international pop star, roughly half of Thursday's show was sung in Spanish, with the strongest material coming from her earliest records. "Inevitable" built slowly to a stormy conclusion, and "Ciega Sordomuda" was rousing and anthem-like, Shakira cheerfully and tirelessly galloping across the stage.

 

For someone who has lately gained a degree of notoriety for her ability to swivel, Thursday's show was surprisingly light on dancing.

 

Shakira's movements were mostly slow and controlled, and she opted for an occasional sweep of the leg or arching of the back while restricting more elaborate choreography to two brief, concentrated set pieces. She seemed far more at ease playing the frontwoman, donning a guitar for "Don't Bother" and inviting Spanish pop star Alejandro Sanz :wub: to join her seven-piece band for a snarling rendition of "La Tortura."

 

Shakira's current hit came last, as current hits often do. A duet with Wyclef Jean of the Fugees, "Hips Don't Lie," is without question the year's most ubiquitous song, dominating airwaves for the better part of the summer.Watching the pair perform it on Thursday, in the middle of a troupe of belly dancers and amid a shower of multicolored confetti, it was surprisingly easy to spot the surgery. :wub:

 

 

Shakira is the tempest at the center of her own songs, but in "Hips" she's reduced to an afterthought, a squiggle of vocal and a clunky chorus hook. After nearly two hours of strength and power, gyrating and cooing and playing kittenish foil to Jean seemed painfully beneath her. Shakira. Terrifically tempestuous. With Wyclef Jean. Seen Thursday at Madison Square Garden. :wub:

:yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:

 

 

 

Another one:

 

NY Times - The Passion of Shakira, With Adulation She Can Take or Leave

 

When people call a pop star fearless, they're usually talking about something milder than that: a willingness to record a song full of weird noises, or to say something gently provocative in an interview, or to wear an outfit that may have looked better on the hanger.

 

Shakira, the half-Lebanese singer and writher from Colombia, is fearless in a more literal and more absolute sense. She faces big audiences without betraying the slightest hint of anxiety. It's not that she doesn't appreciate all the adulation, it's just that she can't imagine why it would stop. Who doesn't love Shakira?

 

During her sold-out concert at Madison Square Garden on Thursday night, Shakira seemed more invincible than ever. If she hasn't — yet — matched Madonna's triumphs, she also hasn't had to deal with Madonna-sized disappointments. Instead of suffering in tabloids and onstage, the way pop stars sometimes do (or seem to), she seems to have decided that her musical career is a grand game that she's destined to win.

 

"Here's the deal," she said, near the beginning. "You know I'm gonna be dancing and playing and doing all the required stuff." Then, having shrugged off her own role, she requested that the audience do its part and have fun.

 

Not that her songs lack passion. On the contrary, they overflow with it; she writes clever, stylized lyrics that keep bathos at arm's length — which is to say, within arm's reach. In "La Tortura," a Spanish-language hit so big that it converted lots of Anglo listeners, a sentimental love song turns out to be a petulant brush-off; the flowery language only makes it that much meaner. (She sings it as a duet with the Spanish balladeer Alejandro Sanz, who got a huge ovation when he emerged, unannounced.)

 

"La Tortura" comes from "Fijación Oral, Vol. 1," her excellent 2005 Spanish-language album; The concert also included a graceful version of "Obtenir Un Si," a hushed samba song from the album, and an interpretive dance set to the ballad "No," also from that album.

 

Not surprisingly, the Anglo music industry has simplified Shakira's appeal. To non-Spanish speaking fans in America, she's known less for playful, spiky rock songs (though Thursday's show had lots of them) and more for breathy ballads or frenetic club tracks or hip-shaking so vigorous it seems positively lethal. She led a sing-along during "Underneath It All," a lovely ballad that sounded just as lovely in 1988, when the Bangles called it "Eternal Flame." And, inevitably, the night ended with the reappearance of Wyclef Jean, the opening act, for "Hips Don't Lie," their pleasingly inescapable mega-hit.

 

That comes from the 2006 revised version of "Oral Fixation, Vol. 2," the not-quite-as-excellent English-language sequel to "Fijación Oral." Shakira realized early on that she didn't want to simply translate her Spanish-language songs in hopes of conquering America, so she has figured out a way to have dual careers that overlap (two songs appear on both "Oral" albums) without quite merging. Not surprisingly, she finds unusual ways to use English idiom: when she sings "Whenever, Wherever," the words connote eager romantic devotedness; at your local high school, those words would more likely connote indifference.

 

For someone like Shakira, hurdling the so-called language barrier is nothing. More impressive is the way she has hurdled the attitude barrier. In America, we usually like our pop stars to work hard — to look as if they're working hard — for our pleasure. But Shakira glided through a two-hour set as if it were a merely one of her many hobbies. What kind of pop star can act as if she doesn't need us? Shakira has figured out the answer: a foreign one, who years ago conquered the rest of the hemisphere.

 

"Thank you so much for a wonderful night," she said when it was nearly over. Maybe it's a coincidence, but that sounds like exactly the sort of thing you say to a smitten admirer who can't live without you — right after you decide that the feeling isn't quite mutual.

 

 

NOT sure about the author's opinion because SHAKIRA is very charismatic and she always needs of her fans!! ;) :heart:

Edited September 11, 200618 yr by DAVELOVESHAKI

Shakira shakes and N.Y. quakes Daily News NY!

 

 

 

It wasn't so long ago that Shakira was a mousy, if pretty, brunette from Colombia who was dubbed the Latin Alanis Morissette for her heartfelt, socially conscious and often angst-ridden ballads she wrote and sang in Spanish.

My, how times have changed.

 

As anyone who has lately tuned in to MTV well knows, Shakira has transformed herself into a blond, hip-shaking, pop-music hit machine with an enormous crossover appeal in both the Latin American and mainstream U.S. markets.

 

The Barranquilla-born singer-songwriter's formidable talents - and, yes, that includes her belly-dancing prowess and the way she shimmies those famously shapely hips - were on full display last night at Madison Square Garden.

 

Stopping in New York for two nights as part of her Oral Fixation tour (the final show is this evening), Shakira showed why she has become one of the world's biggest pop stars in any language.

 

Although she's a petite thing with seemingly more hair than heft, she effortlessly commanded the stage and let her music be the center of attention throughout the hour and a half concert. Unlike most pop divas, hers was a no-frills performance minus any fireworks, backup singers or stunts.

 

The show was simply Shakira - who began the night singing and dancing in her bare feet - and a multicultural, seven-piece band that easily jumped into the many musical styles she has delved into over the past few years, including reggaeton, cumbia, tejano and even the Middle Eastern influences evident on her English-language breakout hit, "Whenever, Wherever."

 

Shakira alternated between Spanish and English tunes and even found time to play electric guitar and harmonica.

 

The biggest cheers were reserved for the final number, a show-stopping rendition of this summer's big hit "Hips Don't Lie."

 

Joined by Wyclef Jean, the night's opening act, and a bevy of sultry belly dancers, Shakira undulated, swiveled, slithered and otherwise showed off the crossover market's best-known body parts this side of J.Lo's rear end.

 

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WOW!! you are so lucky perfect timing too to catch Alejandro Sanz with her, i think he was there cause they are writing a song together for his upcoming album

You're right they did a song but alejandro came to NY to shoot his new video and there are rumors that the first single is the duet with shakira so maybe they already have the video :rolleyes:

Edited September 11, 200618 yr by DAVELOVESHAKI

Sounds great! Glad you had such a good time! I love it how Shakira makes eye contact with people in the audience - it's really special! I wish I could see La Tortura performed with Alejandro - they're so great together.