At 20:49 on Saturday 18 September, Spanish time, Shakira stepped onto the stage of the Madrid stadium that bears her name. The setlist of 25 songs spread over two hours opened with 'La fuerte', her collaboration with Bizarrap from her latest album, and continued with 'Girl like me' and a medley of 'Las de la intuición' and 'Estoy aquí', her first international hit.
"Good evening, Madrid, I can't believe I'm here", the artist said after the first few songs, before referring, without mincing her words, to her private life: "You'll be thinking, the face I left with and the face I've come back with." She added that "there is nothing like a she-wolf being reunited with her pack".
