Published 13:38 IST, February 4th 2020

Shakira's tongue-wiggling at her Super Bowl performance has THIS hidden meaning

Shakira recently gave birth to a meme fest as she wiggled her tongue during her Super Bowl performance. Turns out this movement has a hidden meaning to it.

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Shakira recently performed with singer and actor JLo during Super Bowl 2020. But during Shakira’s solo bit, she performed a tongue-wagging moment while looking directly at camera. This clip from her performance quickly turned into a meme, but it turns out re is meaning to this tongue movement. Read more to kw details about this incident.

Shakira pays tribute to be her Arab roots

Shakira and Jennifer Lopez became first Latina women to perform at Super Bowl. Shakira’s performance led to many of her songs entering iTunes Top 20 chart years after its release. But apart from Shakira performing her biggest hits and showing off her expertise in belly dancing, she also gave birth to a meme fest online.

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During her Super Bowl 2020 performance, Shakira at one point in time looked directly at camera and wiggled her tongue. But this moment from her performance led to some major chaos online and people started comparing her to SpongeBob’s victory screech and a goat as well.

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But turns out, Shakira’s tongue-wagging was actually a tribute to her Lebanese herit; Shakira’s far is Lebanese. This tongue wiggling is actually an Arab tradition kwn as zaghrouta. shrill sound made expresses joy. zaghrouta is performed at several weddings, parties, and celebrations. Some of Shakira’s fans were quick to defend Waka Waka singer regarding this tradition when people started trolling her. Take a look.


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13:38 IST, February 4th 2020