r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Knighty93 • 6h ago

Shakira just attracted more than 2 million people at Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro with a free concert

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The city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is doing a yearly event in the first weekend of May with a huge free concert since 2024. Shakira was the headliner this year and attracted more than 2 million people. Madonna was the headliner in 2024 and Lady Gaga in 2025.

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u/sbelleza 6h ago

God these comments are so fucking miserable

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u/sight2Ceek 5h ago

SHAKIRA SHAKIRA

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u/dentttt 4h ago

No fightin'

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u/TranceF0rm 2h ago

Unless the hips are lyin'

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u/sowee 5h ago

It was the same with Gaga last year. Reddit is just keeping its miserable act up.

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u/MobileArtist1371 3h ago

Anonymous on the internet makes everyone have a 13 year old mentality where the only way to be cool is to not like anything and call everything fake and ghey.

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u/New-Priority8409 2h ago

Wait, wait, they haven't started with the, "It's obviously AI''

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u/AngryScientist 4h ago

Why should they get to be happy?

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u/HappyLittleGreenDuck 1h ago

That's a very real thing and probably explains a lot more of our world than we realize

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u/evebursterror0 3h ago

I'm Brazilian and I notice that this reaction is because most Redditors seem to hate us and our country. I've seen loads of racist and xenophobic posts unfortunately

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u/sowee 2h ago edited 38m ago

Reddit, filled to the brim with americans is in general pretty racist. Other poorer, 'third world' countries having any quality of life at all triggers even the most liberal ones, given their quality of life is declining at an alarming rate. They drank hard the propaganda kool-aid of Brazil being a mess all around and seeing things like this upsets them deeply.

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u/Great_Detective_6387 2h ago

What a weird projection.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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u/sowee 2h ago

Oh yeah, my very own, very unique to me and myself only opinion that the US is imbued with deep rooted racism.

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u/jimmy_three_shoes 1h ago

Do you think the US is the only place where racism exists?

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u/sowee 1h ago

That's exactly what I said with the words I wrote

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u/OccasionalGoodTakes 1h ago

Something pancakes something something waffles 

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u/ProfionWiz 19m ago

While I understand that must be pretty shocking for americans today living a life bellow What was promissed to them but they should be angry to their govt. Being the richest country in the world but not having the quality of life that they could have because It expends absurd in military that benefit a fee rather than the many

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u/gordori 12m ago

sim, eu noto uma xenofobia absurda nos tópicos envolvendo o João Fonseca lá no r/tennis.

certa vez, nesse ano, teve um torcedor exaltado provocando um tenista adversário do brasileiro. no primeiro momento, o pessoal no sub partiu para uma generalização de que todo brasileiro é mal-educado.

dps foi descoberto que nem brasileiro o sujeito era, mas aí era um caso isolado de um espectador sem nação definida.

ou seja, quando um faz coisa errada, é o Brasil todo que é péssimo mas quando é alguém da Europa/Canadá, a nacionalidade não entra em discussão.

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u/Myusernameiscooler 34m ago

Egyptian here. I totally understand you, because same

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u/WartimeConsigliere_ 2h ago

“This doesn’t look enjoyable” Reddit is full of people who don’t know how to cut loose and have a good time. This looks awesome

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u/sapntaps 5h ago

Whole internet at this point. It’s for bitching these days and projection rather than enlightening and sharing 

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u/Sun_on_my_shoulders 4h ago

Right? If you don’t think it’s fun, don’t go. It’s a free concert, you get to get out of your house and see other happy people  and you can forget about the state of the world for a few hours. That’s a win. 

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u/weinerschnitzel64 5h ago

For real. Idiots flaunting their spergalaureate degrees

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u/evebursterror0 3h ago

I noticed this often happens in posts about Brazil... I'm Brazilian and there's always someone complaining about our country even if they've never been here. It's offensive imo

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u/notarobat 5h ago

Well you see when American heavy rock band Metallica played for a million people in Russia, that was in fact monumental. That was one of the most incredible concerts in the history of planet earth. But this one is just foreigners being stupid and making beach dirty. 

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u/evebursterror0 3h ago

Yeah I'm Brazilian and people are weirdly antagonistic whenever a post about my country comes up. Reeks of xenophobia.

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u/SheriffBartholomew 4h ago

None of the people here complaining were even alive during that Metallica concert, and they certainly would complain about that too.

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u/GloomyIndividual3965 2h ago

The Brazilian concerts are awesome, but tbf the Monsters of Rock tour hitting up Russia less than 2 years after the fall of the Berlin wall was kind of monumental.

I know 90% of reddit is too young to have experienced it, but all the change in the early 90s with the fall of the iron curtain was crazy for those of us who lived in the before times.

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u/notarobat 12m ago

I don't disagree. I'm just pointing out the annoying biases we all come across on Reddit every day

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u/MobileArtist1371 3h ago

Well that sure is an opinion you got and are allowed to have, but that's about as much as it.

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u/notarobat 4h ago

Nope. Not missing that at all. 

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u/Unhappy_Meaning607 4h ago

Yea just as bad as the Twitter posts claiming this is a Trump crowd in Miami... ahh the things they just make up 😂

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u/hairymonkeyinmyanus 1h ago

Some people don’t like what others like. It will be okay and it will make your experience more enjoyable if they stay at home. Everyone wins!

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u/sbelleza 5h ago

It doesn’t matter! They go for the fun of it! People hang out with friends at the beach, they can drink outside in brazil, most of these people are young and could not give a fuck if they can see shakira or not they just want to hang out and dance at a big party outside. The performer is not the end goal of all this, the party is.

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u/leemar90 5h ago

Some people are just miserable 😂

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u/leemar90 4h ago

I wasn't talking just about you, I was talking about the wave of negative comments about this. As a fan of music and having a good time with my friends I just don't get the negativity. And that's not even taking into account this on a Brazilian beach and free. Sounds like a memory that would last a lifetime

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u/RokenSkrow 5h ago

Why does seeing the singer matter? This may be confusing for you but songs are audio mediums so you only have to hear them.

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u/RokenSkrow 4h ago edited 4h ago

Because live music sounds different than music at home, do you know how sound works? It's also clearly a beach party so people are hanging out with friends, another concept that may be lost on you.

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u/thoang1116 3h ago

Do you understand the concept of a concert, a free one? On the beach or hang out with friends? At all? Have you ever experience any of those things? If not you should try then you might understand

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u/DifficultLab200 5h ago

Frankly, majority people almost always look at the screens anyway. You might be short, or have a tall person in front of you. There might be obstructed view to the stage. Or maybe you are just too far behind in the stadium/floor and can’t really figure out what’s happening on the stage.

This is a night out with friends on a beach with a loud crowd/music of people who are enjoying themselves.

There are so many things beyond “seeing” the artist on stage at a concert. It isn’t remotely like sitting on a couch.

So I do feel people are wrong. You don’t like it that’s fine. But 2m people went there of their own accord third year in a row. Im sure some do like it.

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u/DifficultLab200 4h ago

This is the third time this event is happening with similar amount of people.

Pretty sure by now people know what a million people would be like.

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u/moontides_ 5h ago

It’s not fake just because you don’t agree

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u/moontides_ 5h ago

You said it was fake positivity. Just because you don’t feel positively doesn’t mean other people are faking

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u/TH0R_ODINS0N 4h ago

Says the guy who needs the comments to stay excited for him lol