Several Taylor Swift fans said Tuesday that Shakira was leveraging too many creative elements from Swift’s Eras Tour for her upcoming tour, the Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour.
The comments from a Swifties vocal segment came amid news that Shakira’s upcoming world tour has already managed to break one of Swift’s Eras Tour records: Shakira, 47, became the first female artist to sell out five consecutive performances at the GNP Seguros Stadium in Mexico City. , by brand.
Swift, 34, previously held the record with four consecutive sold-out shows at the stadium, formerly known as Foro Sol, on her most recent tour.
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“The inspiration is obviously taken from the eras tour, but if this goes viral they will do mental gymnastics to act like it’s not,” said one user.
Several Taylor Swift fans said Tuesday that Shakira was leveraging too many creative elements from Swift’s Eras Tour for her upcoming tour, the Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour. Swift photographed last month in New York
One user joked that Shakira, 47, “said the Eras tour is NOT over yet,” while another said Shakira’s team “might as well call it Taylor’s Eras tour.”
A fan reacted to a clip in the thread that supposedly showed a video of Shakira rehearsing for the tour, alleging that Shakira and her team were also copying Swift’s choreography with their upcoming show.
“She also has a jump into the water lol,” the fan said. “I think she and her team studied the tour of eras to do something like that.”
Swift would be the subject of intense scrutiny if she were on the other end of the argument, several fans said.
“If Taylor had copied someone like that, they would obviously never stop talking,” said one user, while another added, “imagine if Taylor had copied another artist, there would have been a murder.”
Some Swift fans were more sympathetic to the South American singer, whose full name is Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll.
“It’s okay because we love Shakira,” said one user, while another added, “mom carries the legacy but in Spanish.”
One fan said that “Shakira had times before Taylor was born,” while another jokingly called the upcoming tour, “The Shakiras Tour.”
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Some Swift fans sympathized more with the South American singer
Shakira broke Taylor Swift’s record by becoming the first woman to sell out five consecutive shows at Mexico City’s second largest stadium, the GNP Seguros Stadium, according to Marca; photographed in July in Miami
Swift previously sold out four consecutive shows at the stadium as part of her popular Eras Tour; photographed in March 2023 in Arlington, Texas.
Shakira had previously announced only four shows at the stadium, but added a record fifth sold-out show in response to extraordinary fan demand.
“Dear Mexico, five dates at the GNP Stadium… we broke the record,” Shakira reportedly wrote on social media to celebrate the milestone.
According GNP Insurance Stadium‘, the venue, which is the second largest stadium in Mexico City, has a capacity for 65,000 people for concert events.
Shakira said she has pushed back the dates for the North American leg of her tour to move stadium shows to larger arenas.
“The demand for tickets and more shows has reached the point that our tour now requires stadiums in the United States and more dates so we can see as many of you as possible,” Shakira said on her Instagram Stories on Friday, according to Billboard. “As a result, we are elevating my North American tour from arenas to stadiums and the dates will be moved to May 2025, right after my Latin American tour.”
The move initially disappointed some fans who didn’t want to wait to see the Whenever, Wherever artist, but now many more fans will have the opportunity to see her concerts.
Their good fortune contrasts with that of other established artists, including Jennifer Lopez and The Black Keys, who have been forced to cancel or scale back their tours after they failed to attract the same level of fan interest as in previous years.
Last week, the Latin American star debuted the music video for her single Soltera, and the clip has already garnered a staggering 26 million views as of Monday.
Shakira’s Las Mujeres No Ya Lloran world tour is named after the album of the same name, which she released in March.
‘Dear Mexico, five dates at the GNP Stadium. “We broke the record,” Shakira reportedly wrote on social media to celebrate the milestone; photographed in July in Miami Gardens, Florida
On Friday, the singer announced that she would delay the North American leg of her world tour until May 2025 to move shows from arenas to larger stadiums due to extreme demand; photographed in July in Miami, Florida
Swift still holds many records after achieving the highest-grossing tour in history with her Eras Tour, which also became the first tour to gross $1 billion; Seen in August 2023 in Inglewood, California.
The LP, whose title translates as Women No Longer Cry, was a hit around the world, and particularly in the US, where it topped both Billboard’s Latin Pop Albums chart and the Top Latin Albums chart.
The album also reached an impressive number 13 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, and has been certified 7x Platinum for over 420,000 album equivalent units by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Shakira’s world tour will begin in 2025 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on February 11, followed by stops in her home country of Peru, Colombia, Chile, Argentina and Mexico.
After a hiatus between March and May, the tour will resume in Charlotte, North Carolina, on May 13, followed by dates in the Northeast, South and West.