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Underneath Your Clothes

The one noticeable problem with Shakira's live concert dvd is her vocals, which sometimes waver in their consistency. In the midst of her enthusiasm, she has a tendency to exaggerate her melodies, and she adds vocal flourishes where they are not appropriate. Although she is able to add a sense of tenderness to ballads such as " Underneath Your Clothes " and " Tu " with her subtle vocalization, she has an opposite, admittedly grating effect on her rendition of " Objection (Tango)." She begins the song by singing over a drumbeat, and she deliberately and repeatedly cracks her voice for emotional effect. Shakira is trying too hard to impress in situations such as these, and she undermines one of her strongest singles in the process. Other choices on the set list are not suited for a live context. Her cover of AC/DC's "Back in Black" is a letdown because Shakira voice is not harsh enough to deliver the chorus with intensity.

Shakira

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  God damn Shakira definetly had the best performance of that night 

awesome preformence

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  Shakira had an awesome preformence live. I mean How long has it been since she first sang Hips Don't lie? What 3-4 years ago? 

It's a giraffe

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A man walks into a bar with a giraffe. They both get pissed. The giraffe falls over. The man goes to leave and the bartender says, "Oi. You can't leave that lyin' there." And the man says, "No. It's not a lion. It's a giraffe." 

Big City Life

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  Big City Life Big City Life, Me try fi get by, Pressure nah ease up no matter how hard me try. Big City Life, Here my heart have no base, And right now Babylon de pon me case. People in a show, All lined in a row. We just push on by, Its funny, How hard we try. Take a moment to relax. Before you do anything rash. Don't you wanna know me?, Be a friend of mine. I'll share some wisdom with you. Don't you ever get lonely, From time to time Don't let the system get you down [Chorus:] Soon our work is done, All of us one by one. Still we live our lives, As if all this stuff survives. I take a moment to relax, Before I do anything rash. [Bridge:] The Linguist across the seas and the oceans, A permanent Itinerant is what I;ve chosen. I find myself in Big City prison, arisen from the vision of man kind. Designed, to keep me discreetly neatly in the corner, you'll find me with the flora and the fauna and the hardship. Back a yard is where my heart is still I find it hard to...

4 a.m.

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 writing and reading at the cost of a normal social life, playing music and the production aspect, drinking lots of tea and coffee, riding my bicycle, going to bed early and waking up at 4 a.m. to start my day (I'm crazy) 

Google Maps in Europe

with Google Maps in Europe we can mark location of shakiras concerts.