REHEATING NACHOS

Did Shakira Really Plagiarize Beyoncé’s ’Renaissance' Tour?

The Colombian singer famously “took notes” during a stop of Bey’s legendary tour. Now, we’re seeing just how detailed those notes were…

Rumor has it that Shakira keeps opening the windows on her tour bus… probably to air out the smell of reheated nachos after her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran tour reportedly served up Beyoncé’s leftovers.

On Feb. 11, Shakira officially kicked off her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran tour in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. And, well, people couldn’t help but notice some striking similarities between the singer’s new show and Beyoncé’s legendary Renaissance tour, particularly when it comes to the show’s design.

First up: the metallic wolf. Shakira introduces an enormous metallic wolf during one of her numbers, an eerily similar choice to the metallic stallion Beyoncé put in her tour.

The next similarity that has everyone buzzing is the massive billboards that display Shakira’s name and tour title in huge letters with the exact same silver-colored font that Beyoncé used during her tour. Even her backups dancers’ metallic outfits are a dead ringer for the ones worn in Renaissance.

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The commonalities are so uncanny, it’s almost like Shakira was taking notes at Renaissance concerts. Oh wait, she was.

Some may remember that back in 2023, eagle-eyed fans photographed the Hips Don’t Lie singer furiously scribbling down notes during a Renaissance performance, which Shakira admitted to doing. Turns out, the star is finally and unabashedly putting those notes to good use, and people on X are losing their minds.

“SOMEONE TAKE THOSE NOTES AWAY FROM HER,” one user wrote.

Of course, there have been plenty of references to Shakira “reheating nachos”—a slang term for when someone takes something someone else already did, but with no fresh spin.

“She took Beyoncé’s nachos and made chilaquiles,” one fan quipped, suggesting Shakira’s remix of Renaissance is a little… stale.

While some Beyoncé fans are up in arms about Shakira’s “plagiarism,” others are leaning into the comparisons, embracing it as a tribute to Queen Bey.

“I kinda love that Shakira is doing the Renaissance tour (Spanish dubbed), because you get to see exactly where in the show she was gagged. And honestly, I agree with her completely so far,” one fan wrote.

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But whether it’s homage or outright copying, the line between the two is getting blurrier by the minute.

Shakira’s Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran tour? If Turnitin graded it, it’d be 90 percent Beyoncé.

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