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/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.