Dai Dai by Shakira x Burna Boy | Can This FIFA 2026 Anthem Beat Waka Waka?

So just like many of you guys found out I was just going through Instagram few days back. So when our boy posted something, I was like OK, OK, what's this? Let me just click on it. Check. Probably this one this is only future again or something. Or probably he's just releasing another song only for me to see Shakira in the video. And I was like, OK, Shakira. Shakira was was with Shakira. And I looked at the caption. It was crazy, bro, to going to the comments section. It was, I mean section, yeah, it was crazy.

Bonna boy. Shakira on the global World Cup anthem bro. Welcome to the artist Hangout with Femi Max, the space where all filtered stories from emerging musicians, producers and creators come alive. Here, it's raw, it's real, and it's all about the journey. Now let's hang out. But that is huge. Most of you might not understand how big this is because I don't know if the Gen. Z is kind of know who Shakira is. You see, Shakira is not just a global star. She's beyond the fact that she's a Lantern, you know, queen like a Lantern, super global duper star.

She, she has this, this effect on anything she goes on any song she's on, you know, it's like a global hit is always a banger, if I could use that word. So Shakira teaming up with Bona Boy and World Cup anthem, you know, after Shakira gave us Waka Waka, Yeah, few years back, not even few years, like years, years back, we've not seen any, any, any World Cup anthem, you know, cannot replicate the effect or the level of dominance that Waka Waka had. And Shakira coming on this one. And of all people to select, she chose to be, I mean, we have the future of Bonner Boy UQ.

You should know that, bro, this this song called Day day, this official FIFA anthem. What I mean, this official FIFA World Cup and 2026 anthem is definitely, definitely going to be a banger. The combination, you know, really sounds, you know, almost too good to be real. But, well, it's happening. The teaser, you know, they dropped this week from inside the Americana stadium in real is enough. Rio, Brazil actually is enough to tell you that this is something serious. But you see, what I kept thinking about is Bonna Boys from Port Arcot, you know, a city that the global music industry was not looking at.

A guy who had to literally fight, you know, publicly, loudly, consistently for years, for years, I mean years before the world, you know, began to take African music seriously on its own terms. No compromises, no watching it down. You know, it was put in bed few days few months back. And now FIFA, the most watched sporting institution on the planet, came to him, not the other way around. And you see, that shift deserves a moment of silence, probably a round of applause 'cause it's this is huge actually for Bona Boy, you know, on the same stage.

I know he's a globe icon. He's a star. He's featured, you know, all the stars from Justin Bieber to, you know, other global, you know, superstars. But Shakira is like a queen, a queen on her own, bro. And, you know, I think this should be like a privilege for Bona Boy, actually. Not in the sense that she's, you know, she's probably Lanteen of all of that stuff. No, but because of the relevance, because of, you know, her antecedents, her her profile, her CV, if I could say that, you know, she, like I said, she's a global star.

And beyond that, she's really good at what she does. And I'm, she's a dancer, not just a downside professional dancer, a singer, an entrepreneur, a business pressing, a guru, actually, if I could use that word. So, yeah, that song itself reflects, you know, a shift. And when I say shift, it means, you know, that Afrobeats isn't just sprinkled over a pop record, you know, to make it feel trendy or all of that stuff. You see, from what we had the days generally living inside both worlds, you know, Shakira's Lantern fire and Banner Boy's African soul, you see equally that balances had to pull up that what people think.

The full song, you know, drops me for things. The World Cup starts, I think June 11th and between now and July 19th, when someone lists that trophy at the MetLife Stadium, this record is going to be everywhere. But forget the dates for a second real story here is what it means for Africa, what it means for Nigeria, what it means for Port Arcott. You know what it means is that the sound of 2026 World Cup has a product called Heartbeat in it. And Bonner Boy didn't just like crossover. He made the word crossover to him and that's huge.

That's huge. Anyways, my name is usual Wafema controller and yeah, it's my take on the World Cup 2026 anthem Bonner Boy, Shakira de de. My prediction is definitely this song is going to be a hit from day one until only God knows when, because I listen to the sniper or sniper or whatever you call it sounded kind of sounded kind of, well, dope, if I could use that word. But it wasn't really like waka waka didn't sound anything like that Waka waka vibe. But I can't wait though. Saw the dance move Shakira was giving me where it was given though, but I couldn't couldn't just wait to hear, but I was verse and that song.

Yeah, yeah, I I believe that's gonna be a hit actually, because I know I like I said, anything Shakira is on is definitely a banger. So my prediction is gonna be a hit and I can't wait. I know you can't wait to Let's get it.

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