Colombian-born Shakira accused of using a fake Spanish accent

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She commanded the stage with her own knowing array of thrusts...
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But it wasn't only her body that stayed in motion during Tuesday night's romp (which doubled as one of the first stops on her "Sun Comes Out" world tour).
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to cumbia-laced rock ("Whenever, Wherever"), to a cover of EMF's '90s Brit-pop-dance hit "Unbelievable."
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grinds and shimmies.
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For over 15 years, the Colombian singer has made a name for herself as much for her deep pivots...
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Coupled with steady shakes of her heroic hair, Shakira whipped up the kind of charisma that doesn't need to come from any particular place to charm.
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The president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos Calderon, in New York for the UN General Assembly, made it to the show.
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So did her musical styles. In the space of a few songs, Shakira lurched from Arabic-inflected electro-pop ("Why Wait")...
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Shakira smoothed out her rougher elements with her energy as a live performer.
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Colombian-born singer Shakira was accused of switching her Spanish dialect from Colombian to someone from Spain.
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She didn't require backup dancer to create a splashy sense of choreography.
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as for her propulsive music.
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She also made harried stops at Afro-pop, Puerto Rican reggaeton and '80s-style pop-rock.
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Backstage after the concert actor Jim Carrey said hello.

PUBLISHED: June 28, 2016 at 11:58 a.m. | UPDATED: April 8, 2018 at 9:27 p.m.

Her hips don’t lie, but her accent is questionable.

Or so say some of Shakira’s fans, who accused her of using a fake Spanish accent while filming a music video in her hometown of Barranquilla, Colombia.

After a clip went viral of her chatting on set of “La Bicicleta”, her hit with popular Colombian singer Carlos Vives, some said she switched out her native dialect to that of someone from Spain.

“Shakira in her own country, in her native city, where she grew up and lived, speaking with a Spanish accent…Ahhh okkk!!!” wrote one user on Twitter.

Colombian-born singer Shakira was accused of switching her Spanish dialect from Colombian to someone from Spain.

Another added, “Speaking with a Spanish accent in Colombia looks pretty ridiculous in my opionion.”

In her defense, Shakira, 39, may have picked her “adopted” cadence from her boyfriend Gerard Piqué, a soccer star from Spain.

The couple have lived in Barcelona since 2012 with their children, Milan, 3, and Sasha, 17 months.

Shakira isn’t the only pop star accused of a changing her twang.

In the early 2000s, Madonna was critizied for her faux British accent after she moved to England to live with her then-husband, movie director Guy Ritchie.