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Originally posted by LoveTheWayILie
That is not true. Waka Waka was HUGE after Shakira did it for the World Cup. There wasn't a person on the planet that didn't know and jam to it at least a bit. It just so happens that the songs submitted this time were so beyond ****. Who would jam to that horrible song she did. I swear I thought she was doing a Lego (the toy) commercial.
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Well Waka Waka was also a homeless children awareness single, so that helped. But it was the song itself that managed to launch into such global popularity, and being associated with the World Cup was what got it so much exposure, not being performed at the World Cup. And again, being a charity single (or whatever you wanna call it) helped, since third world countries managed to give it a boost as well.
But even regardless of that, the statement still stands. The last World Cup song anyone cared about before Waka Waka was La Copa de La Vida, which was released in 1998. Regardless, the point I was trying to make was that the Super Bowl is relevant and actually gives the artist headlining it attention, which usually isn't the case for the World Cup.
