Review: Shakira rules the night during blockbuster Bay Area show

Bay Area Shakira fans were the lucky ones.

While the 48-year-old Colombian superstar was forced to cancel concerts in several markets — due to major technical difficulties and other issues — Shakira was able to showcase her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour in all its splendid glory in front of some 33,000 grateful fans on Monday night (June 30) at Oracle Park in San Francisco.

Although showtime was advertised as 8 p.m., the star wouldn’t actually take the stage until close to an hour later. In the meantime, fans had the opportunity to buy plenty of Shakira wolf ears and other souvenirs at the merch booths and deal with the cold weather in outfits that — in thousands of cases — certainly weren’t designed with chilly Oracle Park in mind.

Yet, Shakira would definitely warm the place up once she appeared with her large dance crew, cutting a line through the crowd as they made their way to the stage to perform “La Fuerte,” one of the stand-out numbers from the singer-songwriter’s 12th studio album and tour namesake,2024’s “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran” (translation: “Women No Longer Cry”).

From there, she’d move through more than two-dozen songs — some of which were performed in shortened versions — over the course of two exhilarating hours, delivering the kind of big pop spectacle that fans have come to expect from Shakira while somehow also fashioning a kind of treasured intimacy with the large crowd.

Shakira performs during her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour at the Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, June 30, 2025. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)

She radiated massive star power at every turn, mesmerizing fans with both her vocals and dance moves, while flipping through the years and pages of her multiplatinum-selling songbook.

The star spoke to the crowd in both Spanish and English, taking the opportunity early on in the show to encourage members of the Latino community during these challenging times and celebrating “love and freedom and bravery of so many who raise their voices everyday.”

“The world is so much better when we live it with respect, with truth and with pride,” Shakira told her fans. “My heart is always with you and — you know what? — there is absolutely no better feeling than when a she wolf is back with her pack.”

Shakira performs during her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour at the Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, June 30, 2025. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)

This self-described “She Wolf” (also the name of Shakira’s 2009 English-language album) simply could do no wrong in front of her pack, drawing equal acclaim with the up-tempo dance numbers and the slow ballads.

The stage set was very impressive, dominating Oracle Park’s outfield with its massive video screens and a catwalk that pointed out toward the pitching mound. It allowed plenty of space for Shakira’s outstanding dance team to work as well as for a live band to provide far more oomph than recorded tracks ever could. There were also some high-concept themed sequences, such as when Shakira donned a welding outfit — although, clearly, not one that would likely ever be endorsed by the AWS (American Welding Society) — to put the finishing touches on a robot dancer.

Through it all, however, the main attraction remained the same:

The blinding talent and sheer charisma of Shakira.

Those two elements would combine in glorious fashion as Shakira rocked into her sole Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper — “Hips Don’t Lie” — which sent the already exuberant crowd into overdrive.

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That signature number came relatively early in the show — less than halfway through the setlist — yet the rest of the performance felt anything but anticlimactic. Instead, the concert just kept getting better and better, vaulting to a whole other level once Shakira donned a stunning long sparkly gown to sing the heartfelt breakup ballad “Ultima,” the “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran” beauty that finds the star saying farewell to her longtime romantic partner and former soccer star Gerard Piqué.

Shakira performs during her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour at the Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, June 30, 2025. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)

The show reached its homestretch with a immensely satisfying stripped-down take on “Antología,” which Shakira performed while seated at the end of the catwalk and surrounded by tens of thousands of passionate backing vocalists in the crowd, and then went right into a pair of English language powerhouses — “Underneath Your Clothes” and “Whenever, Wherever.”

Shakira and her team then brought the main set to a close with a joyous, exuberant “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa),” the 2010 anthem for the FIFA World Cup held in South Africa, before returning for a two-song encore of the longtime fan favorite “She Wolf” and the recent smash “BZRP Music Sessions #53.”

“Thank you for supporting me all these years,” Shakira told fans late in the show. “I feel so lucky as an artist.”

Shakira performs during her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour at the Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, June 30, 2025. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
Shakira, middle, with dancers perform during her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour at the Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, June 30, 2025. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
Shakira, middle, with dancers perform during her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour at the Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, June 30, 2025. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
Shakira performs during her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour at the Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, June 30, 2025. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)

Shakira San Francisco Setlist, based on our notes and information from setlist.fm.
1. “La fuerte”
2. “GIRL LIKE ME”
3. “Las de la intuición”/”Estoy aquí”
4. “Empire”/”Inevitable”
5. “Te felicito”/”TQG”
6. “Don’t Bother”
7. “Acróstico”
8. “Copa vacía”/”La Bicicleta”/”La tortura”
9. “Hips Don’t Lie”
10. “Chantaje”
11. “Monotonía”
12. “Addicted to You”/”Loca”
13. “Soltera”
14. “Última”
15. “Ojos así”
16. “Pies descalzos, sueños blancos”
17. “Antología”
18. “Underneath Your Clothes”
19. “Whenever, Wherever”
20. “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)”
Encore:
21. “She Wolf”
22. “BZRP Music Sessions #53”