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Shakira’s Show-Stopping MTV Vanguard Awards Performance Outshines Taylor Swift

A Night to Remember as Shakira Steals the Spotlight MTV Video Vanguard Awards

Antonio Segovia, MD.
2 min readSep 15, 2023
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Spoiler: Don’t stop watching the video. It’s spectacular.

Shakira swept the MTV Video Vanguard Awards, so much so that she had more impact than the big winner of the night, Taylor Swift, who won nine awards.

Shakira did a 10.27-minute performance that eclipsed the night and made Swift herself enjoy and dance.

The Colombian began the spectacle of her stuffed in a container/closet, starting a game of lights, sounds, and sensual movements with her hit She Wolf, then Monotonia, Hips Don’t Lie.

Continuing with her latest success that has swept digital platforms, such as Spotify: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53, where she sings of spite for her ex-husband and father of her two children having been unfaithful, she does not cry, but she does sing to him bitterly:

Me dejaste de vecina a la suegra

Con la prensa en la puerta y la deuda en Hacienda

Te creíste que me heriste y me volviste más dura

Las mujeres ya no lloran, las mujeres facturan

You left me as a neighbor to…

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Antonio Segovia, MD.
Antonio Segovia, MD.

Written by Antonio Segovia, MD.

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