Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6212 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-11-19
• Rating: To Be Announced
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Box set, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 90 minutes

DVD Description
Tracklisting:

Concert Footage 1. Estoy Aquí 2. Te Dejo Madrid 3. Don't Bother 4. Antología 5. Hey You 6. Inevitable 7. Si Te Vas 8. La Tortura (Featuring Alejandro Sanz) 9. No 10. Whenever, Wherever 11. La Pared 12. Underneath Your Clothes 13. Pies Descalzos, Sueños Blancos 14. Ciega, Sordomuda 15. Ojos Así 16. Hips Don't Lie (Featuring Wyclef Jean)

Bonus DVD Footage Obtener Un Si (video) La Pared(Live-Mexico) Las De La Intuición (video) Dia De Enero (video) Pies Descalzos documentary Around the World documentary

Bonus CD Intro / Estoy Aqui Don't Bother Inevitable La Pared (audio from dvd live) Hips Don't Lie

Synopsis
Columbian superstar Shakira performs 16 songs live, including 'Whenever, Wherever', 'Hips Don't Lie', and 'La Tortura'. Includes a six-track CD.

Customer Reviews

A good concert Blu-ray, but the frame rate is just too slow
This is a good concert, with, overall a good picture quality (could be even better, as some shots/cameras are better than others, it also seems to be affected by the stage lighting), as well as a slight amount of compression artefacts/slight banding/picture noise, but it's really not too bad and doesn't really affect the quality of the concert as it looks generally very good.

Half the songs are in Spanish, and people talk in Spanish too (as well as in English), yet we get no option for English subtitles for the Spanish bits. While the songs are good, it would have been better with an option for English subtitles. I think it would be good if there was another concert too that had a few more English songs.

The biggest problem is the frame rate is just too slow. People (especially people in the audience) move unnaturally, it's especially noticeable at the end of the show, where paper stuff gets shot up into the air, then sort of jumps frame by frame across the screen (ie. the frame rate isn't high enough for it to move normally). This would have been much better at something like 30 frames per second (30p), perhaps even higher (other Blu-ray concerts are usually at 60i).

Move Over Bruce, There's a New Boss In Town
Is there anyone out there who hasn't got Shakira yet? If there is, this DVD might fix it.

It is a recording of one of the dates in the "Oral Fixation" tour of 2006. It was filmed in Miami, which is important, because the city's huge Hispanic population means that Shaki was playing to a home crowd.

Sporting a shock of dark-blonde hair, Shaki looks great from the off. Despite the global stature she has attained, she clearly still suffers from stage nerves, but by half-way through the first number, the old fave "Estoy Aqui," that's all forgotten and the bopper from Barranquilla is firing on all cylinders and the party gets a-hopping. By the end of that song, she has the crowd eating out of the palm of her hand, and from there proceeds to rip through a selection of older songs and material from the "Oral Fixation" series.

While Shakira has always presented herself as a solo act, in fact she works with a small pool of dedicated musicians, some of whom have been with her for ten or more years, including her musical director and guitarist, Tim Mitchell, with whom she has co-written many songs. Her band is a powerhouse of talent, a solid, tight underpinning that complements Shakira's vocals perfectly.

And then there's those vocals. Shakira can be stylised and operatic, laid back and soulful; she can rock, reggae and jazz. She can miaow like a cat and snarl like a tiger. I can think of no other contemporary singer who exceeds her range of vocal expression, and what is more, Shaki is no studio-produced confection; she does it all, and more, live.

Shakira long ago proved she had the Midas touch as a pop composer, and her back catalogue contains some of the best examples of the genre ever written, like "Ojos Asi," "Un Poco de Amor," "Inevitable," "Whenever, Wherever," "La Tortura," "No;" this list goes on and on. Those who speak Spanish or who took the trouble to find translations know she is witty, gritty, and most of all enormously romantic and appealing in her lyrics, a tradition she has built on with her move into songwriting in English, now unafraid to deal with political and moral issues.

But this DVD is about more than that; it is about the sheer, infectious joy that this pint-sized but hugely talented artist takes in performing, in singing and dancing in front of an audience.

In a world full of pretentious, dull, derivative "indie" music and insufferable, instantly forgettable music-industry product, Shakira is that welcome breath of fresh air, an original, sincere, committed and most of all incredibly talented artist.

If you didn't realise that before, this DVD should convince you.

nice
for shakira's fans it is a must have dvd. personally i was impressed by her energy and the nice athmosphere on the stage. the minuses are that if you expected to hear more from oral fixation cd's songs you'll be disapointed, but anyway its really good concert dvd.