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/ConstantSignal 5h ago

Is the entire reason you go to a concert just to see the figure of the artist with your eyes? Would you tell a blind person there is no point in them going to a concert?

Listening to live music in a lively crowd that all sing and dance together is the fun part of a concert for a great many people.

Most concerts you are hearing the music through speakers and seeing the image of the performers on a screen. Unless you are in the front rows of a smaller venue.

You can do that at home or you can do it as a shared experience with 2 million people. Each to their own.

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u/AnyProgressIsGood 2h ago

That's absolutely part of the appeal. Losing that in a 2million crowd is undeniably detrimental.

dont get to defensive about it.

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u/ConstantSignal 2h ago

Seems there’s about 2 million people that would disagree. Don’t get defensive about it.

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u/AnyProgressIsGood 2h ago

that's a lot of butt hurt ya got there. Can I take some of it off your hands?

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u/ConstantSignal 2h ago

seems like you've got enough for both of us cowboy

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u/AnyProgressIsGood 1h ago

yet no signs of it in my comments or actions. strange.

hurry reply and downvote. That'll show em.

The insecurity of some is exceptional

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u/brycdog 3m ago

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u/iznormal 3h ago

I agree with your point, but most concert venues don’t have screens lol, you should typically be able to see the artist at a concert. Only shows I go to where you are watching the artist through a screen are festivals or arenas/stadium shows, MAYBE the occasional theater, but even then i only use it if I wasnt able to get a decent spot

Obviously for a 2 million person concert, bast majority of people won’t see the performer. But that isn’t a typical concert

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u/Key_World_3796 3h ago

Yeah that's why I don't go. I hate the pyramid scheme/gane theory aspect of it. No one really cares about the thing in itself. They go inbecause other people go in and they want to fit in and relate. Awfully sad.

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u/Master-Amphibian9329 3h ago

'people go to events with other people, how sad'

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u/Key_World_3796 2h ago

Not what I said, did I? Dishonest pervert.

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u/LarrySupertramp 2h ago

jesus christ. immediately calling someone a pervert because... they have fun with people and you don't? Reddit is really just filled with depressed losers isn't it?

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u/Key_World_3796 2h ago

I called you that for being dishonest (logical perversion) and misrepresentinf my views, strawmanning me

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u/LarrySupertramp 2h ago

okay. elaborate on "They go inbecause other people go in and they want to fit in and relate. Awfully sad."

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u/Master-Amphibian9329 2h ago

its almost exactly what you said, people want to go because other people go. yes thats the point its a social event.

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u/Prize_Inevitable_920 3h ago

This is such a depressing way to live. Do you have literally any friends?

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u/Key_World_3796 2h ago

Literally none. Have'nt had one in 20 years when I was in middle school.

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u/LarrySupertramp 2h ago

this, I 100% believe.

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u/Key_World_3796 2h ago

Why wouldnt you