And when Shakira takes the stage Thursday night in Soweto’s Orlando Stadium for FIFA’s kick-off concert, she’ll be joined by American music stars John Legend, Alicia Keys and the Black Eyed Peas.īut in calls to local talk shows, interviews with the press and meetings with FIFA officials, South Africans demanded to know why an African wasn’t chosen for the high-profile role. This year’s song, “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa),” however, has stirred sentiment among South Africans, many of whom were outraged because FIFA selected a non-African, Colombian pop star Shakira, to write the song and perform lead vocals.īased on a Cameroonian marching chant and featuring backup by popular South African group Freshlyground, “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)” has many soccer fans around the world dancing to an African beat. The songs are inoffensive universal pop, meant to appeal to a universal audience and draw in viewership and interest. Previously, Art Beat looked at the official art posters of the World Cup a project called 2010 Fine Art the Diski, a dance created just for the World Cup and Soccer Cinema, a traveling theater that has been screening films all over South Africa.Įvery FIFA World Cup comes with an official FIFA World Cup song - from ‘La Copa de la Vida’ by Ricky Martin at France 1998 to ‘Gloryland’ by Daryl Hall (no Oates) at USA 1994.
Another in a series of stories about the upcoming World Cup in South Africa, which begins Friday.
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